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For week ending Sunday, August 31, 2008
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Based on reporting from the independent booksellers of
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C O N T E N T S
Hardcover Fiction Hardcover Nonfiction
Trade Paper Fiction Trade Paper Nonfiction
Mass Market Children's Fiction & Illustrated

Hardcover Fiction

1. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows, Dial, $22, 9780385340991

2. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
David Wroblewski, Ecco, $25.95, 9780061374227

3. The Lace Reader
Brunonia Barry, Morrow, $24.95, 9780061624766

4. The Art of Racing in the Rain
Garth Stein, Harper, $23.95, 9780061537936

5. Unaccustomed Earth
Jhumpa Lahiri, Knopf, $25, 9780307265739

6. Off Season
Anne Rivers Siddons, Grand Central, $24.99, 9780446527873

7. The 19th Wife
David Ebershoff, Random House, $26, 9781400063970

8. Moscow Rules
Daniel Silva, Putnam, $26.95, 9780399155017

9. Fisherman's Bend
Linda Greenlaw, Hyperion, $24.95, 9781401322359

10. The Beach House
Jane Green, Viking, $24.95, 9780670018857

11. Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Sanction
Eric Van Lustbader, Grand Central, $25.99, 9780446539869

12. Silks
Dick Francis, Felix Francis, Putnam, $25.95, 9780399155338

13. The Condition
Jennifer Haigh, Harper, $25.95, 9780060755782

14. Man in the Dark
Paul Auster, Holt, $23, 9780805088397

15. The Little Book
Selden Edwards, Dutton, $25.95, 9780525950615

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Hardcover Nonfiction

1. The Last Lecture
Randy Pausch, Hyperion, $21.95, 9781401323257

2. When You Are Engulfed in Flames
David Sedaris, Little Brown, $25.99, 9780316143479

3. Goodnight Bush
Erich Origen, Gan Golan, Little Brown, $14.99, 9780316040419

4. Traffic
Tom Vanderbilt, Knopf, $24.95, 9780307264787

5. The Way of the World
Ron Suskind, Harper, $27.95, 9780061430626

6. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Haruki Murakami, Knopf, $21, 9780307269195

7. Waiter Rant
The Waiter, Ecco, $24.95, 9780061256684

8. In Defense of Food
Michael Pollan, Penguin Press, $21.95, 9781594201455

9. The Obama Nation
Jerome R. Corsi, Threshold, $28, 9781416598060

10. The Post-American World
Fareed Zakaria, Norton, $25.95, 9780393062359

11. Epilogue
Anne Roiphe, Harper, $24.95, 9780061254628

12. The Night of the Gun
David Carr, S&S, $26, 9781416541523

13. The Limits of Power
Andrew J. Bacevich, Metropolitan, $24, 9780805088151

14. Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
Chelsea Handler, Simon Spotlight, $24.95, 9781416954125

15. The Dark Side
Jane Mayer, Doubleday, $27.50, 9780385526395

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Trade Paperback Fiction

1. Bridge of Sighs
Richard Russo, Vintage, $14.95, 9781400030903

2. Run
Ann Patchett, Harper Perennial, $14.95, 9780061340642

3. The Shack
William P. Young, Windblown, $14.99, 9780964729230

4. Loving Frank
Nancy Horan, Ballantine, $14, 9780345495006

5. In the Woods
Tana French, Penguin, $14, 9780143113492

6. Out Stealing Horses
Per Petterson, Picador, $14, 9780312427085

7. Water for Elephants
Sara Gruen, Algonquin, $13.95, 9781565125605

8. The Friday Night Knitting Club
Kate Jacobs, Berkley, $14, 9780425219096

9. Barefoot
Elin Hilderbrand, Back Bay, $13.99, 9780316018593

10. On Chesil Beach
Ian McEwan, Anchor, $13.95, 9780307386175

11. Away
Amy Bloom, Random House, $14, 9780812977790

12. The Maytrees
Annie Dillard, Harper Perennial, $13.95, 9780061239540

13. The Road
Cormac McCarthy, Vintage, $14.95, 9780307387899

14. Songs Without Words
Ann Packer, Vintage, $14.95, 9780375727177

15. Mister Pip
Lloyd Jones, Dial, $12, 9780385341073

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Trade Paperback Nonfiction

1. Three Cups of Tea
Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin, Penguin, $15, 9780143038252

2. Dreams From My Father
Barack Obama, Three Rivers, $14.95, 9781400082773

3. The Old Farmer's Almanac 2009
Old Farmer's Almanac (Eds.), Old Farmer's Almanac, $6.95, 9781571984531

4. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Barbara and Camille Kingsolver, Steven Hopp, Harper Perennial, $14.95, 9780060852566

5. Eat, Pray, Love
Elizabeth Gilbert, Penguin, $15, 9780143038412

6. The Audacity of Hope
Barack Obama, Three Rivers, $14.95, 9780307237705

7. A New Earth
Eckhart Tolle, Plume, $14, 9780452289963

8. A Long Way Gone
Ishmael Beah, FSG, $12, 9780374531263

9. The World Without Us
Alan Weisman, Picador, $15, 9780312427900

10. The Power of Now
Eckhart Tolle, New World, $14, 9781577314806

11. Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar
Thomas Cathcart, Daniel Klein, Penguin, $12, 9780143113874

12. The Omnivore's Dilemma
Michael Pollan, Penguin, $16, 9780143038580

13. Mike's Election Guide
Michael Moore, Grand Central, $13.99, 9780446546270

14. Big Russ & Me
Tim Russert, Miramax, $13.95, 9781401359652

15. How Starbucks Saved My Life
Michael Gates Gill, Gotham, $13, 9781592404049

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Mass Market

1. Friends in High Places
Donna Leon, Penguin, $7.99, 9780143114147

2. Playing for Pizza
John Grisham, Dell, $7.99, 9780440244714

3. The Pillars of the Earth
Ken Follett, Signet, $7.99, 9780451166890

4. The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Warner, $6.99, 9780316769488

5. Protect and Defend
Vince Flynn, Pocket, $9.99, 9781416505037

6. Slipknot
Linda Greenlaw, Hyperion, $6.99, 9780786891238

7. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935

8. Book of the Dead
Patricia D. Cornwell, Berkley, $9.99, 9780425216255

9. The Secret Servant
Daniel Silva, Signet, $9.99, 9780451224507

10. The Naming of the Dead
Ian Rankin, Little Brown, $7.99, 9780316018869

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Children's Titles

1. Twilight
Stephenie Meyer, Little Brown, $10.99, 9780316015844

2. New Moon (Twilight, Book 2)
Stephenie Meyer, Little Brown, $10.99, 9780316024969

3. Eclipse (Twilight, Book 3)
Stephenie Meyer, Little Brown, $19.99, 9780316160209

4. Breaking Dawn (Twilight, Book 4)
Stephenie Meyer, Little Brown, $22.99, 9780316067928

5. The Time Paradox (Artemis Fowl, Book 6)
Eoin Colfer, Hyperion, $17.99, 9781423108368

6. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
Jeff Kinney, Amulet, $12.95, 9780810994737

7. The Mysterious Benedict Society
Trenton Lee Stewart, Little Brown, $6.99, 9780316003957

8. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Amulet, $12.95, 9780810993136

9. Monsterology
Ernest Drake, Candlewick, $19.99, 9780763639402

10. Bats at the Library
Brian Lies, Houghton Mifflin, $16, 9780618999231

11. Claire (Clique Summer Collection #5)
Lisi Harrison, Poppy, $6.99, 9780316027502

12. Gallop!
Rufus Butler Seder, Workman, $12.95, 9780761147633

13. The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1)
Rick Riordan, Miramax, $7.99, 9780786838653

14. The Book Thief
Markus Zusak, Knopf, $11.99, 9780375842207

15. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780694003617

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