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Best-selling books

12:00 AM CDT on Sunday, October 7, 2007

This week's list of local best-sellers is from Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 2201 Preston Road, Plano. National best-sellers are from The New York Times. For BookSense best-sellers from the American Booksellers Association, see www.booksense.com/bestsellers. Parentheses indicate book's position last week; indicates first week on list.

LOCAL

HARDBACK FICTION

1.Playing for Pizza, by John Grisham
2.The Choice, by Nicholas Sparks
3.Shoot Him If He Runs, by Stuart Woods
4.Garden Spells, by Sarah Addison Allen
5.You've Been Warned, by James Patterson and Howard Roughan
6.Bridge of Sighs, by Richard Russo
7.A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini
8.Dead Heat, by Dick Francis and Felix Francis
9.Eclipse, by Stephenie Meyer
10.The Forever Dog, by Bill Cochran

HARDBACK NONFICTION

1.Make the Right Choice, by Joel Zeff
2.The Age of Turbulence, by Alan Greenspan
3.Same Kind of Different As Me, by Ron Hall and Denver Moore with Lynn Vincent
4.Louder Than Words, by Jenny McCarthy
5.Power to the People, by Laura Ingraham
6.The Coldest Winter, by David Halberstam
7.Greatest Team Ever, by Norm Hitzges
8.Quiet Strength, by Tony Dungy with Nathan Whitaker
9.The Nine, by Jeffrey Toobin
10.The Age of Speed, by Vince Poscente

PAPERBACK FICTION

1.The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
2.Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides
3.The Collectors, by David Baldacci
4.Act of Treason, by Vince Flynn
5.Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen

PAPERBACK NONFICTION

1.Eat, Pray, Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert
2.Skinny Bitch, by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin
3.The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls
4.First They Killed My Father, by Loung Ung
5.Hidden Evidence, by David Owen

NATIONAL

HARDBACK FICTION

1.(1)You've Been Warned, by James Patterson and Howard Roughan
2.(2)A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini
3.(–)Dead Heat, by Dick Francis and Felix Francis
4.(–)Making Money, by Terry Pratchett
5.(3)Pontoon, by Garrison Keillor
6.(4)The Wheel of Darkness, by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
7.(–)Jonathan's Story, by Julia London with Alina Adams
8.(6)The Wednesday Letters, by Jason Wright
9.(5)Bones to Ashes, by Kathy Reichs
10.(–)The Bone Garden, by Tess Gerritsen

HARDBACK NONFICTION

1.(–)The Age of Turbulence, by Alan Greenspan
2.(3)If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer, by the Goldman Family
3.(2)Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World, by Bill Clinton
4.(–)Louder Than Words, by Jenny McCarthy
5.(–)The Nine, by Jeffrey Toobin
6.(1)Power to the People, by Laura Ingraham
7.(–)The Heroin Diaries, by Nikki Sixx with Ian Gittins
8.(7)The War, by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns
9.(5)Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light, edited by Brian Kolodiejchuk
10.(4)Quiet Strength, by Tony Dungy with Nathan Whitaker

PAPERBACK TRADE FICTION

1.(1)Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen
2.(–)Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides
3.(2)The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
4.(3)The Memory Keeper's Daughter, by Kim Edwards
5.(4)The Emperor's Children, by Claire Messud

PAPERBACK NONFICTION

1.(1)Eat, Pray, Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert
2.(–)Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer
3.(2)90 Minutes in Heaven, by Don Piper with Cecil Murphey
4.(3)The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls
5.(4)Three Cups of Tea, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
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