Publishers Weekly best-sellers

[October 31, 2008]  (AP)

HARDCOVER FICTION

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

2. "The Brass Verdict" by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown)

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

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

5. "Bones" by Jonathan Kellerman (Ballantine)

6. "A Lion Among Men" by Gregory Maguire (William Morrow)

7. "Rough Weather" by Robert B. Parker (Putnam)

8. "Testimony" by Anita Shreve (Little, Brown)

9. "A Most Wanted Man" by John Le Carre (Scribner)

10. "One Fifth Avenue" by Candace Bushnell (Voice)

11. "Dark Summer" by Iris Johansen (St. Martin's Press)

12. "The Host" by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown)

13. "Star Wars: Millennium Falcon" by James Luceno (Del Rey)

14. "The Other Queen" by Philippa Gregory (Touchstone)

15. "Heat Lightning" by John Sandford (Putnam Adult)

NONFICTION/GENERAL

1. "Against Medical Advice: One Family's Struggle with an Agonizing Medical Mystery" by James Patterson, Hal Friedman, Cory Friedman (Little, Brown)

2. "The Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (Hyperion)

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

4. "The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life" by Alice Schroeder (Bantam)

5. "My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey" by Jill Bolte Taylor (Viking)

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

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

8. "Here's the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice" by Maureen McCormick (William Morrow)

9. "The Secret" by Rhonda Byrne (Atria Books/Beyond Words)

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

11. "The Longest Trip Home" by John Grogan (Morrow)

12. "Giada's Kitchen: New Italian Favorites" by Giada De Laurentiis (Clarkson Potter)

13. "Letter to My Daughter" by Maya Angelou (Random House)

14. "Martha Stewarts Cooking School: Lessons and Recipes for the Home Cook" by Martha Stewart (Clarkson Potter)

15. "Love Your Life: Living Happy, Healthy, and Whole" by Victoria Osteen (Free Press)

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MASS MARKET PAPERBACKS

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

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

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

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

5. "Nights in Rodanthe" by Nicholas Sparks (Warner Vision)

6. "Quicksand" by Iris Johansen (St. Martin's Paperbacks)

7. "Dark of the Moon" by John Sandford (Berkley)

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

9. "First Impressions" by Nora Roberts (Silhouette)

10. "The Lost Tomb" by David Gibbins (Dell)

11. "Dead to the World" by Charlaine Harris (Ace)

12. "Club Dead" by Charlaine Harris (Ace)

13. "Amazing Grace" by Danielle Steel (Dell)

14. "Book of the Dead" by Patricia Cornwell (Berkley)

15. "Take No Prisoners" by Cindy Gerard (Pocket)

TRADE PAPERBACKS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy (Vintage)

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

12. "Skinny B----" by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin (Running Press)

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

14. "90 Minutes in Heaven" by Dan Piper and Cecil Murphey (Fleming H. Revell)

15. "The Choice" by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing)

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