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WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST-SELLERS

By (AP)
Published: 2008-11-13 12:50:04

FICTION

1. "Eclipse" by Stephenie Meyer (Little Brown)

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

3. "Breaking Dawn" by Stephenie Meyer (Little Brown)

4. "Salvation In Death" by J.D. Robb (Putnam)

5. "Swallowing Darkness" by Laurell K. Hamilton (Ballantine)

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

7. "Extreme Measures" by Vince Flynn (Atria)

8. "Brisingr" by Christopher Paolini (Knopf Books for Young Readers)

9. "Midnight: A Gangster Love Story" by Sister Souljah (Atria)

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

11. "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer (Little Brown for Young Readers)

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

13. "The Brass Verdict" by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown)

14. "New Moon" by Stephenie Meyer (Little Brown for Young Readers)

15. "Bones" by Jonathan Kellerman

NONFICTION

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

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

3. "Flat Belly Diet" by Liz Vaccariello, Cynthia Sass (Rodale Books)

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

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

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

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

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

9. "Letter to My Daughter" by Maya Angelou (Random House)

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

11. "StrengthsFinder 2.0: A New and Upgraded Edition of the Online Test from Gallup's Now, Discover Your Strengths" by Tom Rath (Gallup Press)

12. "Against Medical Advice: One Family's Struggle with an Agonizing Medical Mystery" by James Patterson, Hal Friedman, Cory Friedman (Little, Brown)

13. "The American Journey of Barack Obama" by Life Magazine (Little, Brown)

14. "My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey" by Jill Bolte Taylor (Viking)

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

The Wall Street Journal's list reflects nationwide sales of hardcover books during the week ended last Saturday at more than 2,500 Barnes & Noble, B. Dalton, Bookland, Books-a-Million, Books & Co., Bookstar, Bookstop, Borders, Brentano's, Coles, Coopersmith, Doubleday, Scribners and Waldenbooks stores, as well as sales from online retailers Amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com.

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