Publishers Weekly best-sellers

[November 28, 2008]  HARDCOVER FICTION

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. "Extreme Measures" by Vince Flynn (Atria)

11. "Swallowing Darkness" by Laurell K. Hamilton (Ballantine)

12. "Dashing Through the Snow " by Mary Higgins Clark, Carol Higgins Clark (Simon & Schuster)

13. "Salvation In Death" by J.D. Robb (Putnam)

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

15. "The Bodies Left Behind" by Jeffery Deaver (Simon & Schuster)

NONFICTION/GENERAL

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. "Flat Belly Diet" by Liz Vaccariello and Cynthia Sass (Rodale Books)

14. "Guinness: World Records 2009" by Guinness World Records (Guinness Publishing)

15. "The American Journey of Barack Obama" by Life Magazine (Little Brown)

MASS MARKET PAPERBACKS

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. "Foul Play" Janet Evanovich (Harper)

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

9. "Living Dead in Dallas" by Charlaine Harris (Ace)

10. "One Silent Night" by Sherrilyn Kenyon (St. Martin's Paperbacks)

11. "Suite 606" by Nora Roberts as J.D. Robb, Mary Blayney, Ruth Ryan Langan, Mary Kay McComas (Berkley)

12. "The Chase" by Clive Cussler (Berkley)

13. "Small Town Christmas" by Debbie Macomber (Mira)

14. "Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon" by David Michaels (Berkley)

15. "Robert Ludlum's The Arctic Event" by James H. Cobb (Vision)

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

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

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

8. "Change We Can Believe In: Barack Obama's Plan to Renew America's Promise" by Barack Obama (Three Rivers Press)

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

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

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

12. "What to Expect When You're Expecting" by Heidi Murkoff and Sharon Mazel (Workman Publishing Group)

13. "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz by (Riverhead)

14. "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho (Harper)

15. "The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2009" by World Almanac Books (World Almanac)

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