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Posted on: Thursday, October 15, 2009

This week’s best sellers from Publishers Weekly


Reed Elsevier
McClatchy-Tribune News Service

Here are the best sellers for the week ending Saturday, Oct. 10, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide.

HARDCOVER FICTION
1. The Lost Symbol. Dan Brown. Doubleday, $29.95
Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 4
2. A Touch of Dead. Charlaine Harris. Ace, $23.95
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
3. The Help. Kathryn Stockett. Putnam/Amy Einhorn, $24.95
Last Week: 5; Weeks on List: 19
4. The Last Song. Nicholas Sparks. Grand Central, $24.99
Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 5
5. Evidence. Jonathan Kellerman. Ballantine, $28
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
6. The Professional. Robert B. Parker. Putnam, $26.95
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
7. Rough Country. John Sandford. Putnam, $26.95
Last Week: 4; Weeks on List: 2
8. Half Broke Horses. Jeannette Walls. Scribner, $26
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
9. An Echo in the Bone. Diana Gabaldon. Delacorte, $30
Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 3
10. Her Fearful Symmetry. Audrey Niffenegger. Scribner, $26.99
Last Week: 6; Weeks on List: 2
11. The Ghost King: Transitions. R.A. Salvatore. Wizards of the Coast, $27.95
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
12. South of Broad. Pat Conroy. Doubleday/Nan A. Talese, $29.95
Last Week: 8; Weeks on List: 9
13. Unseen Academicals. Terry Pratchett. Harper, $25.99
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
14. The Christmas List. Richard Paul Evans. Simon & Schuster, $19.99
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
15. The Perfect Christmas. Debbie Macomber. Mira, $16.95
Last Week: 7; Weeks on List: 2

HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Have a Little Faith. Mitch Albom. Hyperion, $23.99
Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 2
2. Arguing with Idiots. Glenn Beck. Threshold Editions, $29.99
Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 3
3. True Compass. Edward M. Kennedy. Twelve, $35
Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 4
4. The Murder of King Tut. James Patterson & Martin Dugard. Little, Brown, $26.99
Last Week: 5; Weeks on List: 2
5. The Time of My Life. Patrick Swayze & Lisa Niemi. Atria, $26
Last Week: 4; Weeks on List: 2
6. Where Men Win Glory. Jon Krakauer. Doubleday, $27.95
Last Week: 7; Weeks on List: 4
7. Postsecret. Frank Warren. Morrow, $22.99
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
8. Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man. Steve Harvey. Amistad, $23.99
Last Week: 9; Weeks on List: 37
9. Outliers. Malcolm Gladwell. Little, Brown, $27.99
Last Week: 8; Weeks on List: 46
10. The Greatest Show on Earth. Richard Dawkins. Free Press, $30
Last Week: 11; Weeks on List: 3
11. Flat Belly! Diet. Liz Vaccariello with Cynthia Sass. Rodale, $25.95
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 20
12. High on Arrival. Mackenzie Phillips. Simon Spotlight Entertainment, $25.99
Last Week: 6; Weeks on List: 3
13. Official Book Club Selection. Kathy Griffin. Ballantine, $25
Last Week: 10; Weeks on List: 5
14. How to Raise the Perfect Dog. Cesar Millan with Melissa Jo Peltier. Harmony, $25.99
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
15. Guinness World Records 2010. Guinness World Records. Guinness, $28.95
Last Week: 14; Weeks on List: 4

MASS MARKET
1. The Associate. John Grisham. Dell, $9.99
Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 3
2. Cross Country. James Patterson. Vision, $9.99
Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 2
3. Covet. J.R. Ward. Signet, $7.99
Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 2
4. Heat Lightning. John Sandford. Berkley, $9.99
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
5. Born of Night. Sherrilyn Kenyon. St. Martin’s, $7.99
Last Week: 4; Weeks on List: 2
6. The Renegade Hunter. Lynsay Sands. Avon, $7.99
Last Week: 6; Weeks on List: 2
7. True Detectives. Jonathan Kellerman. Ballantine, $9.99
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
8. Just After Sunset. Stephen King. Pocket, $9.99
Last Week: 8; Weeks on List: 3
9. From Dead to Worse. Charlaine Harris. Ace, $7.99
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 25
10. Razor Sharp. Fern Michaels. Zebra, $7.99
Last Week: 5; Weeks on List: 2
11. Windfall. Nora Roberts. Silhouette, $7.99
Last Week: 10; Weeks on List: 2
12. Tempt Me at Twilight. Lisa Kleypas. St. Martin’s, $7.99
Last Week: 7; Weeks on List: 3
13. Hot for the Holidays. Lora Leigh, Angela Knight, Allyson James & AnyaBast. Jove, $7.99
Last Week: 13; Weeks on List: 2
14. Divine Justice. David Baldacci. Vision, $9.99
Last Week: 15; Weeks on List: 7
15. Scarpetta. Patricia Cornwell. Berkley, $9.99
Last Week: 12; Weeks on List: 7

TRADE
1. Say You’re One of Them. Uwem Akpan. L,B/Back Bay, $14.99
Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 4
2. The Shack. William P. Young. Windblown Media, $14. 99
Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 79
3. The Time Traveler’s Wife. Audrey Niffenegger. Mariner Books, $14.95
Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 66
4. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Stieg Larsson. Vintage, $14.95
Last Week: 7; Weeks on List: 16
5. Glenn Beck’s Common Sense. Glenn Beck. Threshold Editions, $11.99
Last Week: 6; Weeks on List: 17
6. Olive Kitteridge. Elizabeth Strout. Random House, $14
Last Week: 9; Weeks on List: 22
7. Push. Sapphire. Vintage, $13
Last Week: 8; Weeks on List: 4
8. The Glass Castle. Jeannette Walls. Scribner, $15
Last Week: 5; Weeks on List: 77
9. Handle with Care. Jodi Picoult. Washington Square Press, $16
Last Week: 4; Weeks on List: 4
10. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Mary Ann Shafferand Annie Barrows. Dial, $14
Last Week: 10; Weeks on List: 23
11. I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell. Tucker Max. Citadel, $16.95
Last Week: 11; Weeks on List: 8
12. Three Cups of Tea. Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin. Penguin, $15
Last Week: 14; Weeks on List: 110
13. The Art of Racing in the Rain. Garth Stein. Harper, $14.99
Last Week: 12; Weeks on List: 18
14. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. David Wroblewski. Ecco, $16.99
Last Week: 13; Weeks on List: 4
15. What to Expect When You’re Expecting. Heidi Murkoff and Sharon Mazel. Workman, $14.95
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 277