Publishers weekly best-sellers \ For the week ending December 27, 2008

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. “Scarpetta” by Patricia Cornwell (Putnam)

2. “Cross Country” by James Patterson (Little, Brown)

3. “The Host” by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown)

4. “The Story of Edgar Sawtelle” by David Wroblewski (Ecco

5. “The Christmas Sweater” by Glenn Beck (Threshold Editions)

6. “The Hour I First Believed” by Wally Lamb (Harper)

7. “Arctic Drift” by Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler (Putnam)

8. “Just After Sunset: Stories” by Stephen King (Scribner)

9. “A Mercy” by Toni Morrison (Knopf)

10. “Divine Justice” by David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing)

NONFICTION/GENERAL

1. “The Last Lecture” by Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow (Hyperion)

2. “Outliers: The Story of Success” by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown)

3. “Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World” by Vicki Myron, Brett Witter (Grand Central)

4. “American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House” by Jon Meacham (Random House)

5. “The Purpose Of Christmas” by Rick Warren (Howard Books)

6. “Too Fat To Fish” by Artie Lange and Anthony Bozza (Spiegel & Grau)

7. “A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity” by Bill O’Reilly (Broadway)

8. “Multiple Blessings: Surviving to Thriving with Twins and Sextuplets” by Jon and Kate Gosselin, Beth Carson (Zondervan)

9. “Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics: Fabulous Flavor from Simple Ingredients” by Ina Garten (Clarkson Potter)

10. “Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid” by Denis Leary (Viking Adult)

MASS MARKET PAPERBACKS

1. “Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog” by John Grogan (Harper)

2. “The Appeal” by John Grisham (Dell)

3. “The Pagan Stone” by Nora Roberts (Jove)

4. “T is for Trespass” by Sue Grafton (Berkley)

5. “Dead Until Dark” by Charlaine Harris (Ace)

6. “The 6th Target” by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (Vision)

7. “Duma Key” by Stephen King (Pocket)

8. “The Darkest Evening of the Year” by Dean Koontz (Bantam)

9. “Double Cross” by James Patterson (Vision)

10. “A Prisoner of Birth” by Jeffrey Archer (St. Martin’s)

TRADE PAPERBACKS

1. “The Shack” by William P. Young (Windblown Media)

2. “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream” by Barack Obama (Three Rivers Press)

3. “Dreams from My Father” by Barack Obama (Three Rivers Press)

4. “A Thousand Splendid Suns” by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead)

5. “Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog” by John Grogan (Harper)

6. “Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln” by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Simon & Schuster)

7. “Three Cups Of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time” by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (Penguin)

8. “Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia” by Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin)

9. “The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2009” by World Almanac Books, edited by C. Alan Joyce (World Almanac)

10. “The Appeal” by John Grisham (Dell)