National best-sellers

by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie | Barrows • Published September 07, 2008

Hardcover fiction

1. "Devil Bones" by Kathy Reichs

2. "The Gypsy Morph" by Terry Brooks

3. "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" 4. "The Host" by Stephenie Meyer

5. "Silks" by Dick and Felix Francis

6. "Smoke Screen" by Sandra Brown

7. "Star Wars: The Force Unleashed" by Sean Williams

8. "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle" by David Wroblewski

9. "The Bourne Sanction" by Robert Ludlum and Eric Van Lustbader

10. "Acheron" by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Nonfiction/general

1. "The Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow

2. "Stori Telling" by Tori Spelling

3. "The Secret" by Rhonda Byrne

4. "The Obama Nation" by Jerome R. Corsi

5. "Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea" by Chelsea Handler

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

7. "When You Are Engulfed in Flames" by David Sedaris

8. "You: Staying Young: The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty" by Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet C. Oz

9. "The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism" by Ron Suskind

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 and Eileen McGann

Mass-market paperbacks

1. "Eight Sandpiper Way" by Debbie Macomber

2. "Stone Cold" by David Baldacci

3. "Playing for Pizza" by John Grisham

4. "Nights in Rodanthe" by Nicholas Sparks

5. "Protect and Defend" by Vince Flynn

6. "You've Been Warned" by James Patterson and Howard Roughan

7. "Compulsion" by Jonathan Kellerman

8. "The Edge of Desire" by Stephanie Laurens

9. "Dark Light" by Stephanie Laurens

10. "Wild Card" by Lora Leigh

Trade paperbacks

1. "The Shack" by William P. Young

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

3. "The Choice" by Nicholas Sparks

4. "The Audacity of Hope" by Barack Obama

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

6. "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah

7. "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

8. "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

9. "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

10. "Barefoot" by Elin Hilderbrand

Source: Publishers Weekly

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