FICTION Last week/Weeks on list
1. The Shack 1/17
by William P. Young
2. The Brief Wondrous 2/2
Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Diaz
3. The Choice 3/4
by Nicholas Sparks
4. Water for Elephants 4/54
by Sara Gruen
5. Barefoot 5/14
by Elin Hilderbrand
6. The Alchemist 6/53
by Paulo Coelho
7. Nights in Rodanthe 7/6
by Nicholas Sparks
8. The Kite Runner 8/54
by Khaled Hosseini
9. The Almost Moon 9/1
by Alice Sebold
10. The Road 10/54
by Cormac McCarthy
NONFICTION
1. Eat, Pray, Love 1/86
by Elizabeth Gilbert
2. Three Cups of Tea 2/85
by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
3. Sarah 3/2
by Kaylene Johnson
4. A Long Way Gone 4/6
by Ishmael Beah
5. Change Your Brain, 5/14
Change Your Life
by Daniel G. Amen
6. The Audacity of Hope 6/38
by Barack Obama
7. Into the Wild 7/164
by Jon Krakauer
8. Change We Can Believe In 8/1
with a foreword by Barack Obama
9. 90 Minutes in Heaven 9/99
by Don Piper with Cecil Murphey
10. Dreams From 10/113
My Father
by Barack Obama
ADVICE, HOW-TO AND MISCELLANEOUS
1. A New Earth 1/33
by Eckhart Tolle
2. Skinny Bitch 2/62
by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin
3. What to Expect When You're Expecting 3/378
by Heidi Murkoff and Sharon Mazel
4. Soul Wisdom 4/10
by Zhi Gang Sha
5. The Power of Now 5/48
by Eckhart Tolle
Rankings reflect sales for the week ended Sept. 6 at almost 4,000 bookstores, plus wholesalers serving 60,000 other retailers (gift shops, department stores, newsstands, supermarkets), statistically weighted to represent all such outlets nationwide.