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| Fiction | ||
| 1 | PLAYING FOR PIZZA(Dell, $7.99) By John Grisham. A disgraced NFL quarterback seeks salvation with the Italian football league. | 1 |
| 2 | THE SHACK(Windblown, $14.99) By William P. Young. A father's faith is challenged after the abduction and murder of his daughter. | 7 |
| 3 | PLAY DIRTY(Pocket, $9.99) By Sandra Brown. Fresh from prison, a former NFL star is offered a tidy sum for an unusual request. | 1 |
| 4 | STEP ON A CRACK(Vision, $9.99) By James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge. A throng of dignitaries is kidnapped by terrorists. | 9 |
| 5 | WATER FOR ELEPHANTS(Algonquin, $13.95) By Sara Gruen. An orphan discovers love when he joins a circus during the Great Depression. | 63 |
| 6 | THE FRIDAY NIGHT KNITTING CLUB (Berkley, $14). By Kate Jacobs. A yarn shop owner and single mother starts a weekly support group. | 29 |
| 7 | WATCHMEN(DC Comics, $19.99). By Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons. This graphic novel (about a plot to kill superheroes) is on track to be a feature film. | 1 |
| 8 | DOUBLE TAKE(Jove, $7.99) By Catherine Coulter. FBI agent Cheney Stone realizes two cases (from prior novels) are related. | 5 |
| 9 | THE KITE RUNNER(Riverhead, $14) By Khaled Hosseini. An Afghan returns to his Taliban-ruled country to atone for a past betrayal. | 165 |
| 10 | SECOND CHANCE(Plume, $15) By Jane Green. Four school chums whose lives have drifted apart reunite after a friend is killed. | 5 |
| Nonfiction/General | ||
| 1 | THREE CUPS OF TEA: ONE MAN'S MISSION TO PROMOTE PEACE(Penguin, $15) By Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin | 66 |
| 2 | EAT PRAY LOVE: ONE WOMAN'S SEARCH FOR EVERYTHING ACROSS ITALY, INDIA AND INDONESIA(Penguin, $15). By Elizabeth Gilbert | 75 |
| 3 | DREAMS FROM MY FATHER: A STORY OF RACE AND INHERITANCE(Three Rivers, $14.95) By Barack Obama. The senator's 1995 memoir. | 107 |
| 4 | THE AUDACITY OF HOPE: THOUGHTS ON RECLAIMING THE AMERICAN DREAM (Three Rivers, $14.95). By Barack Obama | 32 |
| 5 | WISDOM OF OUR FATHERS: LESSONS AND LETTERS FROM DAUGHTERS AND SONS (Random House, $13.95). By Tim Russert | 8 |
| 6 | STUFF WHITE PEOPLE LIKE: THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO THE UNIQUE TASTE OF MILLIONS (Random House, $14). By Christian Lander | 1 |
| 7 | BIG RUSS & ME: FATHER AND SON: LESSONS OF LIFE(Miramax, $13.95). By Tim Russert The late NBC journalist pays tribute to his father. | 6 |
| 8 | I HOPE THEY SERVE BEER IN HELL (Citadel, $12.95). By Tucker Max. The exploits of a self-confessed drunk and all-around lothario. | 6 |
| 9 | MARLEY & ME: LIFE AND LOVE WITH THE WORLD'S WORST DOG(Harper, $13.95) By John Grogan. For the love of an unruly Labrador. | 20 |
| 10 | GENERATION KILL: DEVIL DOGS, ICEMAN, CAPTAIN AMERICA, AND THE NEW FACE OF AMERICAN WAR(Berkley, $15). By Evan Wright | 2 |
| Hardcover | ||
| Fiction | ||
| 1 | MOSCOW RULES(Putnam, $26.95) By Daniel Silva. Gabriel Allon heads to Russia to thwart a tycoon's menacing arms trade dabbling. | 1 |
| 2 | THE DANGEROUS DAYS OF DANIEL X (Little, Brown, $19.99). By James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge. A man with astonishing gifts. | 1 |
| 3 | TRIBUTE(Putnam, $26.95). By Nora Roberts Renovating her grandmother's Shenandoah Valley farmhouse uncovers threats and a lost legacy. | 3 |
| 4 | JUST TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE(Doubleday, $24.95) By E. Lynn Harris. A tale of mother and son, football and possibility, love and betrayal. | 2 |
| 5 | THE STORY OF EDGAR SAWTELLE (Ecco, $25.95). By David Wroblewski. A mute youth flees his rural home after his father's death. | 7 |
| 6 | THE LAST PATRIOT(Atria, $26). By Brad Thor A Scot Harvath thriller revolving around a final revelation by the Prophet Muhammed. | 4 |
| 7 | SAIL(Little, Brown, $27.99) By James Patterson & Howard Roughan A holiday meant to heal a family turns horrifying. | 7 |
| 8 | INTO THE FIRE(Ballantine, $25) By Suzanne Brockmann. A past Troubleshooters operative is a murder suspect -- and a target. | 1 |
| 9 | THE HOST(Little, Brown, $25.99) By Stephenie Meyer. A species that takes over the minds of its human hosts has overrun the Earth. | 11 |
| 10 | FEARLESS FOURTEEN(St. Martin's, $27.95) By Janet Evanovich. Stephanie Plum is ensnared in one family's fallout from bank robbery and murder. | 6 |
| Nonfiction/General | ||
| 1 | THE LAST LECTURE(Hyperion, $21.95) By Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow. A zest for life imbues a cancer-stricken professor's message. | 16 |
| 2 | THE DARK SIDE: ... HOW THE WAR ON TERROR TURNED INTO A WAR ON AMERICAN IDEALS (Doubleday, $27.50). By Jane Mayer | 2 |
| 3 | WHEN YOU ARE ENGULFED IN FLAMES (Little, Brown, $25.99). By David Sedaris. Wry and mischievous stream-of-consciousness essays. | 8 |
| 4 | ARE YOU THERE, VODKA? IT'S ME, CHELSEA (Simon Spotlight, $24.95) By Chelsea Handler. Irreverent essays. | 11 |
| 5 | FLEECED(Harper, $26.95) By Dick Morris & Eileen McGann. America duped by liberals, lobbyists, Congress and the media. | 4 |
| 6 | WHAT HAPPENED: INSIDE THE BUSH WHITE HOUSE ...(PublicAffairs, $27.95) By Scott McClellan. The press secretary talks. | 9 |
| 7 | GOODNIGHT BUSH(Little, Brown, $14.99) By Erich Origen & Gan Golan. A parody that riffs on the Margaret Wise Brown children's classic. | 2 |
| 8 | LIFE WITH MY SISTER MADONNA (Simon Spotlight, $26). By Christopher Ciccone with Wendy Leigh. A life in the shadow of fame. | 2 |
| 9 | THE POST-AMERICAN WORLD(Norton, $25.95) By Fareed Zakaria. The Newsweek International editor ponders a diminished American role. | 12 |
| 10 | THE MONSTER OF FLORENCE: A TRUE STORY (Grand Central, $25.99). By Douglas J. Preston with Mario Spezi. A cold case of serial killings. | 7 |
Rankings reflect sales for the week ended July 27, 2008. The charts may not be reproduced without permission from Nielsen BookScan. Copyright © 2008 by Nielsen BookScan. (The right-hand column of numbers represents weeks on this list, which premiered in Book World on Jan. 11, 2004. Advice, self-help and reference books appear on a separate, monthly list.)
