Publishers Weekly Best-Sellers – October 18 2008

HARDCOVER FICTION

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

2. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel by David Wroblewski (Ecco)

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

4. The Pirate King (Forgotten Realms: Transitions, Book 2) by R.A. Salvatore, (Wizards Of The Coast)

5. Heat Lightning (Virgil Flowers) by John Sandford (Putnam Adult)

NONFICTION/GENERAL

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

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

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

4. A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity by Bill O’Reilly (Broadway)

5. Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution–and How It Can Renew America by Thomas Friedman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

MASS MARKET PAPERBACKS

1. Double Cross (Alex Cross Novels) by James Patterson (Vision)

2. Dark of the Moon by John Sandford (Berkley)

3. Nights in Rodanthe by Nicholas Sparks (Warner Vision)

4. First Impressions: First ImpressionsBlithe Images by Nora Roberts (Silhouette)

5. Mercury’s War (Breeds, Book 16) by Lora Leigh (Berkley)

TRADE PAPERBACKS

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

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

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

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

5. World Without End by Ken Follett (NAL)

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