PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST-SELLERS

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. "The Book of Lies" by Brad Meltzer (Grand Central)

2. "American Wife" by Curtis Sittenfeld (Random House)

3. "Anathem" by Neal Stephenson (Morrow)

4. "The Host" by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown)

5. "Dark Curse" by Christine Feehan (Berkley)

6. "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows (Dial)

7. "Devil Bones" by Kathy Reichs (Scribner)

8. "The Keepsake" by Tess Gerritsen (Ballantine)

9. "The Gypsy Morph" by Terry Brooks (Del Rey)

10. "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle" by David Wroblewski (Ecco)

11. "Silks" by Dick and Felix Francis (Putnam)

12. "Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Sanction" by Eric Van Lustbader (Grand Central)

13. "Star Wars: The Force Unleashed" by Sean Williams (Del Rey)

14. "Smoke Screen" by Sandra Brown (Simon & Schuster)

15. "Supreme Courtship" by Christopher Buckley (Twelve)

NONFICTION/GENERAL

1. "Hot, Flat and Crowded" by Thomas Friedman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

2. "The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008" by Bob Woodward (Simon & Schuster)

3. "The Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (Hyperion)

4. "Breakthrough: Eight Steps to Wellness" by Suzanne Somers (Crown)

5. "The Secret" by Rhonda Byrne (Atria Books/Beyond Words)

6. "Stori Telling" by Tori Spelling (Simon Spotlight)

7. "Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea" by Chelsea Handler (Simon Spotlight Entertainment)

8. "The Obama Nation" by Jerome R. Corsi (Threshold Editions)

9. "The Limits of Power" by Andrew J. Bacevich (Metropolitan Books)

10. "When You Are Engulfed in Flames" by David Sedaris (Little, Brown)

11. "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)

12. "The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media's Favorite Candidate" by David Freddoso (Regnery)

13. "StrengthsFinder 2.0: A New and Upgraded Edition of the Online Test from Gallup's Now, Discover Your Strengths" by Tom Rath (Gallup Press)

14. "The First Billion is the Hardest:Reflections on a Life of Comebacks and America's Energy Future" by T. Boone Picken (Crown Business)

15. "Faith of My Fathers" by John McCain with Mark Salter (Random House)

MASS MARKET PAPERBACKS

1. "Book of the Dead" by Patricia Cornwell (Berkley)

2. "Nights in Rodanthe" by Nicholas Sparks (Warner Vision)

3. "Stone Cold" by David Baldacci (Vision)

4. "8 Sandpiper Way" by Debbie Macomber (Mira)

5. "Protect and Defend" by Vince Flynn (Pocket)

6. "Playing for Pizza" by John Grisham (Dell)

7. "Compulsion" by Jonathan Kellerman (Ballantine)

8. "Dead Until Dark" by Charlaine Harris (Ace)

9. "Sweet Revenge" by Diane Mott Davidson (Avon)

10. "You've Been Warned" by James Patterson, Howard Roughan (Vision)

11. "Dark Light" by Jayne Castle (Avon)

12. "Noah" by Jacquelyn Frank (Zebra)

13. "Keeping Faith" by Jodi Picoult (Avon)

14. "Trunk Music" by Michael Connolly (Grand Central)

15. "The Edge of Desire" by Stephenie Laurens (Avon)

TRADE PAPERBACKS

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

2. "Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia" by Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin)

3. "Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time" by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (Penguin)

4. "Skinny B----" by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin (Running Press)

5. "A New Earth" by Eckhart Tolle (Plume)

6. "The Choice" by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing)

7. "The Audacity of Hope" by Barack Obama (Three Rivers)

8. "Sarah: How a Hockey Mom Turned the Political Establishment Upside Down" by Kaylene Johnson (Tyndale House Publishers)

9. "Barefoot" by Elin Hilderbrand (Back Bay Books)

10. "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz (Riverhead)

11. "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

12. "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen (Algonquin)

13. "Dreams from My Father" by Barack Obama (Three Rivers)

14. "Eat This Not That! for Kids!" by David Zinczenko, Matt Goulding (Rodale)

15. "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy (Vintage)

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