Sunday, August 24, 2008
BEST-SELLERS Publishers Weekly
For the week ending Aug. 16
HARDCOVER FICTION
1. “Smoke Screen” by Sandra Brown (Simon Schuster)
2. “Acheron” by Sherrilyn Kenyon (St. Martin’s Press)
3. “The Bourne Sanction” by Robert Ludlum, Eric Van Lustbader (Grand Central)
4. “Moscow Rules” by Daniel Silva (Putnam)
5. “The Host” by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown)
6. “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society” by Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (The Dial Press)
7. “The Story of Edgar Sawtelle” by David Wroblewski (Ecco)
8. “The Mercedes Coffin: A Decker and Lazarus Book” by Faye Kellerman (William Morrow)
9. “Tribute” by Nora Roberts (Putnam)
10. “Off Season” by Anne Rivers Siddons (Grand Central)
NONFICTION/GENERAL
1. “The Last Lecture” by Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (Hyperion)
2. “The Obama Nation” by Jerome R. Corsi (Threshold Editions)
3. “Stori Telling” by Tori Spelling (Simon Spotlight)
4. “The Secret” by Rhonda Byrne (Atria Books/Beyond Words)
5. “When You Are Engulfed in Flames” by David Sedaris (Little, Brown)
6. “The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media’s Favorite Candidate” by David Freddoso (Regnery)
7. “You: Staying Young: The Owner’s Manual for Extending Your Warranty” by Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet C. Oz (Free Press)
8. “The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism” by Ron Suskind (Harper)
9. “Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea” by Chelsea Handler (Simon Spotlight Entertainment)
10. “Fleeced: How Barack Obama, Media Mockery of Terrorist Threats, Liberals Who Want to Kill Talk Radio, The Do-Nothing Congress, Companies That Help Iran, and Washington Lobbyists for Governments Are Scamming Us ... and What to Do About It” by Dick Morris, Eileen McGann (Harper)
MASS MARKET PAPERBACKS
1. “Playing for Pizza” by John Grisham (Dell)
2. “You’ve Been Warned” by James Patterson, Howard Roughan (Vision)
3. “Nights in Rodanthe” by Nicholas Sparks (Warner Vision)
4. “Into The Flame” by Christina Dodd (Signet)
5. “Strangers in Death” by J.D. Robb (Berkley)
TRADE PAPERBACKS
1. “The Shack” by William P. Young (Windblown Media)
2. “Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time” by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (Penguin)
3. “Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia” by Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin)
4. “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier” by Ishmael Beah (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
5. “Water for Elephants” by Sara Gruen (Algonquin)