Best-selling books -- Publishers Weekly

[December 12, 2008]  (AP)  HARDCOVER FICTION

1. "Scarpetta" by Patricia Cornwell (Putnam)

2. "The Christmas Sweater" by Glenn Beck (Threshold Editions)

3. "Cross Country" by James Patterson (Little, Brown)

4. "Arctic Drift" by Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler (Putnam)

5. "Just After Sunset: Stories" by Stephen King (Scribner)

6. "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle" by David Wroblewski (Ecco)

7. "The Hour I First Believed" by Wally Lamb (Harper)

8. "Your Heart Belongs to Me" by Dean Koontz (Bantam)

9. "The Host" by Stephenie Meyer (Little Brown)

10. "Charlemagne Pursuit" by Steve Berry (Ballantine Books)

11. "Divine Justice" by David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing)

12. "The Lucky One" by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing)

13. "The Gate House" by Nelson DeMille (Grand Central Publishing)

14. "The Private Patient" by P. D. James (Knopf)

15. "A Mercy" by Toni Morrison (Knopf)

NONFICTION/GENERAL

1. "The Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow (Hyperion)

2. "Outliers: The Story of Success" by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown)

3. "Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World" by Vicki Myron, Brett Witter (Grand Central)

4. "American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House" by Jon Meacham (Random House)

5. "Multiple Blessings: Surviving to Thriving with Twins and Sextuplets" by Jon and Kate Gosselin, Beth Carson (Zondervan)

6. "Too Fat To Fish" by Artie Lange and Anthony Bozza (Spiegel & Grau)

7. "The Purpose Of Christmas" by Rick Warren (Howard Books)

8. "A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity" by Bill O'Reilly (Broadway)

9. "Guinness: World Records 2009" by Guinness World Records (Guinness)

10. "Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics: Fabulous Flavor from Simple Ingredients" by Ina Garten (Clarkson Potter)

11. "YOU: Being Beautiful: The Owner's Manual to Inner and Outer Beauty" by Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet Oz (Free Press)

12. "Hot, Flat and Crowded" by Thomas Friedman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

13. "Do the Right Thing: Inside the Movement That's Bringing Common Sense Back to America" by Mike Huckabee (Sentinel HC)

14. "The Snowball" by Alice Schroeder (Bantam)

15. "Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid" by Denis Leary (Viking Adult)

MASS MARKET PAPERBACKS

1. "The Pagan Stone" by Nora Roberts (Jove)

2. "The Appeal" by John Grisham (Dell)

3. "T is for Trespass" by Sue Grafton (Berkley)

4. "Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog" by John Grogan (Harper)

5. "Dead Until Dark" by Charlaine Harris (Ace)

6. "The Venetian Betrayal" by Steve Berry (Ballantine)

7. "The 6th Target" by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (Vision)

8. "The Manning Grooms" by Debbie Macomber (Mira)

9. "Dead After Dark" by Sherrilyn Kenyon, J.R. Ward, Susan Squires and Dianna Love (St. Martin's)

10. "Double Cross" by James Patterson (Vision)

11. "A Prisoner of Birth" by Jeffrey Archer (St. Martin's)

12. "The Darkest Evening of the Year" by Dean Koontz (Bantam)

13. "When the Duke Returns" by Eloisa James (Avon)

14. "Zen and the Art of Vampires" by Katie MacAlister (Signet)

15. "Duma Key" by Stephen King (Pocket)

TRADE PAPERBACKS

1. "The Shack" by William P. Young (Windblown Media)

2. "Dreams from My Father" by Barack Obama (Three Rivers Press)

3. "The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream" by Barack Obama (Three Rivers Press)

4. "Three Cups Of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time" by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (Penguin)

5. "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead)

6. "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln" by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Simon & Schuster)

7. "The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2009" by World Almanac Books, edited by C. Alan Joyce (World Almanac)

8. "Halo: The Cole Protocol" by Tobias S. Buckell (Tor)

9. "The Love Dare" by Stephen Kendrick and Alex Kendrick (B&H)

10. "Rachael Ray's Big Orange Book" by Rachael Ray (Clarkson Potter)

11. "World Without End" by Ken Follett (NAL)

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

13. "Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog" by John Grogan (Harper)

14. "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd (Penguin)

15. "Diners, Drive-ins and Dives: An All-American Road Trip...with Recipes!" by Guy Fieri with Ann Volkwein (Morrow)

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