USA Today best-sellers

[October 10, 2008]  URBANA, Ohio (AP) -- Key: F-Fiction; NF-Nonfiction; H-Hardcover; P-Paperback

1. "Brisingr" by Christopher Paolini (Knopf Books for Young Readers) (F-H)

2. "The Lucky One" by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing) (F-H)

3. "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer (Little Brown for Young Readers) (F-P)

4. "New Moon" by Stephenie Meyer (Little Brown for Young Readers) (F-P)

5. "The Shack" by William P. Young (Windblown Media) (F-P)

6. "Eclipse" by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown) (F-H)

7. "Breaking Dawn" by Stephenie Meyer (Little Brown) (F-H)

8. "The Story Of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel" by David Wroblewski (HarperCollins) (F-H)

9. "Nights in Rodanthe" by Nicholas Sparks (Warner Vision) (F-P)

10. "Collateral Damage" by Fern Michaels (Zebra) (F-P)

11. "First Impressions" by Nora Roberts (Silhouette) (F-P)

12. "The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life" by Alice Schroeder (Bantam) (NF-H)

13. "Double Cross" by James Patterson (Vision) (F-P)

14. "Mr. Cavendish, I Presume," by Julia Quinn (Avon) (F-P)

15. "The Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (Hyperion) (NF-H)

16. "The Rustler" by Linda Lael Miller (HQN) (F-P)

17. "Seduce Me at Sunrise" by Lisa Kleypas (St. Martin's Paperbacks) (F-P)

18. "Amazing Grace" by Danielle Steel (Dell) (F-P)

19. "What in the World is Going On?: 10 Prophetic Clues You Cannot Afford to Ignore" by Dr. David Jeremiah (Thomas Nelson) (NF-H)

20. "A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity" by Bill O'Reilly (Broadway) (NF-H)

21. "The Rogue Hunter' by Lynsay Sands (Avon) (F-P)

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

23. "A Cedar Cove Christmas" by Debbie Macomber (Mira Books) (F-H)

24. "Dark of the Moon" by John Sandford (Berkley) (F-H)

25. "Heat Lightning" by John Sandford (Putnam Adult) (F-H)

26. "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd (Penguin)(F-P)

27. "Hot, Flat and Crowded" by Thomas Friedman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) (NF-H)

28. "Untamed: A House of Night Novel" by P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast (St. Martin's Griffin) (F-P)

29. "One Fifth Avenue" by Candace Bushnell (Voice) (F-H)

30. "Deadly Night" by Heather Graham (Mira) (F-P)

31. "Book of the Dead" by Patricia Cornwell (Berkley) (F-P)

32. "Giada's Kitchen: New Italian Favorites" by Giada De Laurentiis (Clarkson Potter) (NF-H)

33. "Inkdeath" by Cornelia Funke (The Chicken House) (F-H)

34. "Third Degree" by Greg Iles (Pocket) (F-P)

35. "The Other Queen" by Philippa Gregory (Touchstone) (F-H)

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

37. "Playing Dead" by Allison Brennan (Ballantine) (F-P)

38. "The Love Dare" by Stephen Kendrick, Alex Kendrick (B&H) (NF-P)

39. "The Host" by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown) (F-H)

40. "The Choice" by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing) (F-P)

41. "Green Goes With Everything: Simple Steps to a Healthier Life and a Cleaner Planet" by Sloan Barnett (Atria) (NF-H)

42. "Playing for Pizza" by John Grisham (Dell) (F-P)

43. "Magic Treehouse #40: Eve of the Emperor Penguin" by Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (F-H)

44. "Dark Possession" by Christine Feehan (Jove) (F-P)

45. "Dead Until Dark" by Charlaine Harris (Ace) (F-P)

46. "8 Sandpiper Way" by Debbie Macomber (Mira) (F-P)

47. "If You Give a Cat a Cupcake" by Laura Numeroff, Felicia Bond (Laura Geringer) (F-H)

48. "It Happened One Night" by Stephanie Laurens, Mary Balogh, Jacquie D'Alessandro, Candice Hern (Avon) (F-P)

49. "Eat, Pray, Love" by Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin) (NF-P)

50. "Sunset" by Karen Kingsbury (Tyndale House Publishers) (F-P)

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