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FICTION

1. "Eclipse" by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)

2. "Breaking Dawn" by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown for Young Readers)

3. "New Moon" by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)

4. "The Tales of Beedle the Bard" by J.K. Rowling (Arthur A. Levine/Scholastic)

5. "Black Ops" by W.E.B. Griffin (Putnam)

6. "Scarpetta" by Patricia Cornwell (Putnam)

7. "Fire and Ice" by Julie Garwood (Ballantine)

8. "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)

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

10. "Running Hot" by Jayne Ann Krentz (Putnam Adult)

11. "Cross Country" by James Patterson (Little, Brown)

12. "The Story Of Edgar Sawtelle" by David Wroblewski (Ecco)

13. "The Hour I First Believed" by Wally Lamb (Harper)

14. "Brisingr" by Christopher Paolini (Knopf Books for Young Readers)

15. "The Christmas Sweater" by Glenn Beck (Threshold Editions)

NONFICTION

1. "Outliers: The Story of Success" by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown)

2. "The Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow (Hyperion)

3. "Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World" by Vicki Myron and Brett Witter (Grand Central Publishing)

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

5. "I Can Make You Thin: The Revolutionary System Used by More Than 3 Million People" by Paul McKenna (Sterling)

6. "Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics: Fabulous Flavor from Simple Ingredients" by Ina Garten (Clarkson Potter)

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

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

9. "Wishful Drinking" by Carrie Fisher (Simon & Schuster)

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

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

12. "Too Fat To Fish" by Artie Lange and Anthony Bozza (Spiegel & Grau)

13. "YOU: Being Beautiful: The Owner's Manual to Inner and Outer Beauty" by Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet Oz (Free Press)

14. "Breakthrough" by Suzanne Somers (Crown)

15. "A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity" by Bill O'Reilly (Broadway)

The Wall Street Journal's list reflects nationwide sales of hardcover books during the week ended last Saturday at more than 2,500 Barnes & Noble, B. Dalton, Bookland, Books-a-Million, Books & Co., Bookstar, Bookstop, Borders, Brentano's, Coles, Coopersmith, Doubleday, Scribners and Waldenbooks stores, as well as sales from online retailers Amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com.

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