PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST-SELLERS

HARDCOVER FICTION

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

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

3. "The Given Day" by Dennis Lehane (William Morrow)

4. "Hot Mahogany" by Stuart Woods (Putnam Adult)

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

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

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

8. "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larsson (Knopf)

9. "Tsar" by Ted Bell (Atria)

10. "The Book of Lies" by Brad Meltzer (Grand Central)

11. "American Wife" by Curtis Sittenfeld (Random House)

12. "Faefever" by Karen Marie Moning (Delacorte)

13. "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows (Dial)

14. "Anathem" by Neal Stephenson (Morrow)

15. "Indignation" by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin)

NONFICTION/GENERAL

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

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

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

4. "Before You Do: Making Great Decisions That You Wont Regret" by T.D. Jakes (Atria)

5. "Breakthrough: Eight Steps to Wellness" by Suzanne Somers (Crown)

6. "The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008" by Bob Woodward (Simon & Schuster)

7. "Pieces of My Heart" by Robert J. Wagner, Scott Eyman, (HarperEntertainment)

8. "Guinness World Records 2009" by Guinness (Guinnes Publishing)

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

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

11. "Stori Telling" by Tori Spelling (Simon Spotlight)

12. "Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea" by Chelsea Handler (Simon Spotlight Entertainment)

13. "Mother Warriors: A Nation of Parents Healing Autism Against All Odds" by Jenny McCarthy (Dutton)

14. "Real Life" by Dr. Phil McGraw (Free Press)

15. "Through the Storm" by Lynne Spears with Lorilee Craker (Thomas Nelson)

MASS MARKET PAPERBACKS

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

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

3. "Third Degree" by Greg Iles (Pocket)

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

5. "Stone Cold" by David Baldacci (Vision)

6. "Playing for Pizza" by John Grisham (Dell)

7. "Compulsion" by Jonathan Kellerman (Ballantine)

8. "Protect and Defend" by Vince Flynn (Pocket)

9. "8 Sandpiper Way" by Debbie Macomber (Mira)

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

11. "Keeping Faith" by Jodi Picoult (Avon)

12. "You've Been Warned" by James Patterson, Howard Roughan (Vision)

13. "Trunk Music" by Michael Connolly (Grand Central)

14. "The Edge of Desire" by Stephanie Laurens (Avon)

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

TRADE PAPERBACKS

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

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

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

4. "Sunset" by Karen Kingsbury (Tyndale House)

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

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

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

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

9. "Sarah: How a Hockey Mom Turned the Political Establishment Upside Down" by Kaylene Johnson (Tyndale House Publishers)

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

11. "A New Earth" by Eckhart Tolle (Plume)

12. "Change Your Brain Change Your Life" by Daniel G. Amen, M.D. (Three Rivers)

13. "Barefoot" by Elin Hilderbrand (Back Bay)

14. "The Almost Moon" by Alice Sebold (Back Bay)

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

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