Sunday, August 3, 2008

	Paperback
	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.)