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Local and national best-sellers

12:00 AM CDT on Sunday, August 24, 2008

This week's list of local best-sellers is from Borders, Preston Road at Royal Lane. National best-sellers are from The New York Times. Parentheses indicate book's position last week; indicates first week on list.

LOCAL

HARDBACK FICTION
	1.	*Breaking Dawn,* by Stephenie Meyer
	2.	*Moscow Rules,* by Daniel Silva
	3.	*Eclipse,* by Stephenie Meyer
	4.	*The Assassin*, by Stephen Coonts
	5.	*The Story of Edgar Sawtelle,* by David Wroblewski
	6.	*The Lace Reader*, by Brunonia Barry
	7.	*Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Sanction,* by Eric Van Lustbader
	8.	*Acheron,* by Sherrilyn Kenyon
	9.	*Smoke Screen,* by Sandra Brown
	10.	*The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society,* by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

HARDBACK NONFICTION
	1.	*The Last Lecture,* by Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow
	2.	*Strengths Finder 2.0,* by Tom Rath
	3.	*The Obama Nation,* by Jerome R. Corsi
	4.	*Now, Discover Your Strengths*, by Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton
	5.	*Getting Unstuck,* by Timothy Butler
	6.	*When You Are Engulfed in Flames*, by David Sedaris
	7.	*The Way of the World,* by Ron Suskind
	8.	*Empires of the Sea,* by Roger Crowley
	9.	*The Dark Side,* by Jane Mayer
	10.	*The Billionaire's Vinegar,* by Benjamin Wallace

PAPERBACK FICTION
	1.	*The Shack,* by William Young
	2.	*Twilight,* by Stephenie Meyer
	3.	*New Moon,* by Stephenie Meyer
	4.	*Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close,* by Jonathan Safran Foer
	5.	*Before You Know Kindness,* by Chris Bohjalian

PAPERBACK NONFICTION
	1.	*Three Cups of Tea,* by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
	2.	*Eat This, Not That!,* by David Zinczenko with Matt Goulding
	3.	*Change Your Brain, Change Your Life,* by Daniel G. Amen
	4.	*Stuff White People Like,* by Christian Lander
	5.	*Eat, Pray, Love,* by Elizabeth Gilbert

NATIONAL

HARDBACK FICTION
	1.	(–)	*Acheron,* by Sherrilyn Kenyon
	2.	(2)	*Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Sanction,* by Eric Van Lustbader
	3.	(5)	*The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society,* by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
	4.	(1)	*Moscow Rules,* by Daniel Silva
	5.	(3)	*The Host,* by Stephenie Meyer
	6.	(4)	*The Story of Edgar Sawtelle,* by David Wroblewski
	7.	(7)	*The Lace Reader*, by Brunonia Barry
	8.	(6)	*Tribute,* by Nora Roberts
	9.	(–)	*Foreign Body,* by Robin Cook
	10.	(8)	*The Last Patriot,* by Brad Thor

HARDBACK NONFICTION
	1.	(1)	*The Obama Nation,* by Jerome R. Corsi
	2.	(3)	*sTori Telling,* by Tori Spelling
	3.	(–)	*The Way of the World,* by Ron Suskind
	4.	(2)	*When You Are Engulfed in Flames*, by David Sedaris
	5.	(–)	*The Case Against Barack Obama,* by David Freddoso
	6.	(4)	*Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea,* by Chelsea Handler
	7.	(6)	*The Dark Side*, by Jane Mayer
	8.	(5)	*Fleeced,* by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann
	9.	(7)	*Life With My Sister Madonna,* by Christopher Ciccone with Wendy Leigh
	10.	(–)	*The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder,* by Vincent Bugliosi

PAPERBACK FICTION
	1.	(1)	*The Shack,* by William Young
	2.	(2)	*Barefoot,* by Elin Hilderbrand
	3.	(3)	*Water for Elephants,* by Sara Gruen
	4.	(5)	*The Alchemist,* by Paulo Coelho
	5.	(4)	*The Kite Runner,* by Khaled Hosseini

PAPERBACK NONFICTION
	1.	(1)	*Three Cups of Tea,* by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
	2.	(2)	*Eat, Pray, Love,* by Elizabeth Gilbert
	3.	(–)	*A Long Way Gone,* by Ishmael Beah
	4.	(3)	*The Audacity of Hope,* by Barack Obama
	5.	(4)	*Big Russ & Me,* by Tim Russert

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