Best-selling books
Fiction
1. “Scarpetta”
Patricia Cornwell (Putnam, $27.95)
2. “The Christmas Sweater”
Glenn Beck (Threshold, $19.99)
3. “Cross Country”
James Patterson (Little, Brown, $27.99)
4. “The Story of Edgar Sawtelle”
David Wroblewski (Ecco, $25.95)
5. “The Host”
Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown, $25.99)
6. “Just After Sunset: Stories”
Stephen King (Scribner, $28)
7. “Arctic Drift”
Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler (Putnam, $27.95)
8. “The Hour I First Believed”
Wally Lamb (Harper, $29.95)
9. “The Lucky One”
Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central, $24.99)
10. “A Mercy”
Toni Morrison (Knopf, $23.95)
Nonfiction
1. “The Last Lecture”
Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow (Hyperion, $21.95)
2. “Dewey”
Vicki Myron and Bret Witter (Grand Central, $19.99)
3. “Outliers”
Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown, $27.99)
4. “American Lion”
Jon Meacham (Random House, $30)
5. “The Purpose of Christmas”
Rick Warren (Howard Books, $17.99)
6. “A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity”
Bill O’Reilly (Broadway, $26)
7. “Multiple Blessings”
Jon and Kate Gosselin, and Beth Carson (Zondervan, $19.99)
8. “Too Fat to Fish”
Artie Lange with Anthony Bozza (Spiege & Grau, $24.95)
9. “Guinness World Records 2009”
(Guinness Publishing, $28.95)
10. “Barefoot Contessa Back To Basics”
Ina Garten (Clarkson Potter, $35)
Mass-market paperback
1. “ The Appeal”
John Grisham (Dell, $7.99)
2. “ Marley and Me”
John Grogan (Harper, $7.99)
3. “The Pagan Stone”
Nora Roberts (Jove, $7.99)
4. “ T is for Trespass”
Sue Grafton (Berkley, $7.99)
5. “ The 6th Target ”
James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (Vision, $7.99)
Trade paperback
1. “ The Shack”
William P. Young (Windblown Media, $14.99)
2. “ Dreams from My Father”
Barack Obama (Three Rivers, $14.95)
3. “ The Audacity of Hope”
Barack Obama (Three Rivers, $14.95)
4. “ Change of Heart”
Jodi Picoult (Washington Square Press, $16)
5. “ Marley & Me”
John Grogan (Harper, $13.95)