Publishers Weekly best-sellers

[January 02, 2009]  (AP)

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. "Scarpetta" by Patricia Cornwell (Putnam)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. "The Charlemagne Pursuit" by Steve Berry (Ballantine Books)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. "Breakthrough" by Suzanne Somers (Crown)

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

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

MASS MARKET PAPERBACKS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. "Angels and Demons" by Dan Brown (Pocket Star Books)

14. "Married in Seattle" by Debbie Macomber (Mira)

15. "Murder Game" by Christine Feehan (Jove)

TRADE PAPERBACKS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. "Change of Heart" by Jodi Picoult (Washington Square Press)

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

13. "Revolutionary Road" by Richard Yates (Vintage)

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

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

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