Best-selling books
From Publishers Weekly
Sun., May 17, 2009
Fiction
1. “Dead and Gone”
Charlaine Harris (Ace, $25.95)
2. “The 8th Confession”
James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown, $27.99)
3. “Pygmy”
Chuck Palahniuk (Doubleday, $24.95)
4. “First Family”
David Baldacci (Grand Central, $27.99)
5. “Just Take My Heart”
Mary Higgins Clark (Simon & Schuster, $25.95)
6. “Summer on Blossom Street”
Debbie Macomber (Mira, $24.95)
7. “Lover Avenged”
J.R. Ward (NAL, $24.95)
8. “Tea Time for the Traditionally Built”
Alexander McCall Smith (Pantheon, $23.95)
9. “The Host”
Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown, $25.99)
10. “The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun”
J.R. Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26)
Nonfiction
1. “Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man”
Steve Harvey (Amistad, $23.99)
2. “Always Looking Up”
Michael J. Fox (Hyperion, $25.99)
3. “Liberty and Tyranny”
Mark R. Levin (Threshold Editions, $25)
4. “Resilience”
Elizabeth Edwards (Broadway, $22.95)
5. “The Girls from Ames”
Jeffrey Zaslow (Gotham, $26)
6. “The G-Free Diet”
Elisabeth Hasselbeck (Center Street, $24.99)
7. “Outliers”
Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown, $27.99)
8. “Master Your Metabolism”
Jillian Michaels (Crown, $26)
9. “The Last Lecture”
Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow (Hyperion, $21.95)
10. “A-Rod”
Selena Edwards (Harper, $26.99)
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