Best-selling books
From Publishers Weekly
Fiction
1. “The Brass Verdict”
Michael Connelly (Little, Brown, $26.95)
2. “The Lucky One”
Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central, $24.99)
3. “The Story of Edgar Sawtelle”
David Wroblewski (Ecco, $25.95)
4. “A Lion Among Men”
Gregory Maquire (Morrow, $26.95)
5. “A Most Wanted Man”
Jon le Carre (Scribner, $28)
6. “The Pirate King”
R.A. Salvatore (Wizards of the Coast, $27.95)
7. “Heat Lightning”
John Sandford (Putnam, $26.95)
8. “One Fifth Avenue”
Candace Bushnell (Voice, $25.95)
9. “A Wallflower Christmas”
Lisa Kleypas (St. Martin’s, $16.95)
10. “The Other Queen”
Philippa Gregory (Touchstone, $25.95)
Nonfiction
1. “The Last Lecture”
Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow (Hyperion, $21.95)
2. “A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity”
Bill O’Reilly (Broadway, $26)
3. “Dewey”
Vicki Myron and Bret Witter (Grand Central, $19.99)
4. “The Snowball”
Alice Schroeder (Bantam, $35)
5. “Hot, Flat, and Crowded”
Thomas L. Friedman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27.95)
6. “Here’s the Story”
Maureen McCormick (Morrow, $25.95)
7. “Multiple Blessings”
Jon and Kate Gosselin and Beth Carson (Zondervan, $19.99)
8. “The Secret”
Rhonda Byrne (Atria/Beyond Words, $23.95)
9. “Giada’s Kitchen”
Giada De Laurentiis (Clarkson Potter, $32.50)
10. “Letter to My Daughter”
Maya Angelou (Random House, $25)
Mass-market paperback
1. “ Double Cross”
James Patterson (Vision, $9.99)
2. “ Dead Until Dark”
Charlaine Harris (Ace, $7.99)
3. “ Nights in Rodanthe”
Nicholas Sparks (Warner Vision, $7.99)
4. “ Dark of the Moon”
John Sandford (Berkley, $7.99)
5. “ First Impressions”
Nora Roberts (Silhouette, $7.99)
Trade paperback
1. “ The Shack”
William P. Young (Windblown Media, $14.99)
2. “ The Secret Life of Bees”
Sue Monk Kidd (Penguin, $15)
3. “ Three Cups of Tea”
Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (Penguin, $15)
4. “ The Love Dare”
Stephen Kendrick and Alex Kendrick (B&H Books, $14.99)
5. “ World Without End”
Ken Follett (NOL Trade, $22)