The Wall Street Journal-20080111-WEEKEND JOURNAL- Best Selling Books
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WEEKEND JOURNAL; Best Selling Books
FICTION
WSJ Sales Index
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RANK AUTHOR / PUBLISHER WEEK WEEK
1 The Shooters 45 New
W.E.B. Griffin / Putnam
2 A Thousand Splendid Suns 45 72
Khaled Hosseini / Riverhead
3 New Moon 44 55
Stephenie Meyer / Little, Brown
4 Double Cross 39 107
James Patterson / Little, Brown
5 Eclipse 38 50
Stephenie Meyer / Little, Brown
6 Sweet Far Thing 36 67
Libba Bray / Delacorte
7 T Is For Trespass 32 80
Sue Grafton / Putnam
8 Shadow Music 31 56
Julie Garwood / Ballantine
9 World Without End 30 48
Ken Follett / Dutton
10 The Darkest Evening of the Year 27 68
Dean Koontz / Bantam
11 Blood Dreams 24 New
Kay Hooper / Bantam
12 Stone Cold 21 47
David Baldacci / Grand Central Publishing
13 People of the Book 20 New
Geraldine Brooks / Viking Adult
14 Rule of Two 19 30
Drew Karpyshyn / Del Rey
15 The Choice 16 39
Nicholas Sparks / Grand Central Publishing
NONFICTION
WSJ Sales Index
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RANK AUTHOR / PUBLISHER WEEK WEEK
1 You: Staying Young 50 92
Michael F. Roizen, Mehmet C. Oz / Free Press
2 The Secret 44 78
Rhonda Byrne / Atria/Beyond Words
3 In Defense of Food 36 New
Michael Pollan / Penguin Press
4 I Am America (And So Can You!) 34 158
Stephen Colbert / Grand Central Publishing
5 The 12-Second Sequence 32 New
Jorge Cruise / Crown
6 Become a Better You 31 89
Joel Osteen / Free Press
7 Deceptively Delicious 28 51
Jessica Seinfeld / Collins
8 How Not to Look Old 27 New
Charla Krupp / Springboard Press
9 Daring Book for Girls 26 76
Andrea J. Buchanan, Miriam Peskowitz / Collins
10 Dangerous Book for Boys 26 84
Conn Igguldon, Hal Igguldon / Collins
11 Jim Cramer's Stay Mad for Life 25 61
James Cramer, Cliff Mason / Simon & Schuster
12 You: On A Diet 24 25
Michael F. Roizen, Mehmet C. Oz / Free Press
13 Living Well 21 New
Montel Williams, William Doyle / NAL Hardcover
14 Born Standing Up 21 55
Steve Martin / Scribner
15 Strengthsfinder 2.0 19 14
Tom Rath / Gallup Press
BUSINESS
WSJ Sales Index
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RANK AUTHOR / PUBLISHER WEEK WEEK
1 Jim Cramer's Stay Mad for Life 25 61
James Cramer, Cliff Mason / Simon & Schuster (H)
2 Strengthsfinder 2.0 19 14
Tom Rath / Gallup Press (H)
3 The Four-Hour Workweek 16 18
Timothy Ferriss / Crown (H)
4 Women & Money 13 16
Suze Orman / Spiegel & Grau (H)
5 Good to Great 13 12
Jim Collins / Collins (H)
6 The Age of Turbulence 11 31
Alan Greenspan / Penguin Press (H)
7 Rich Dad Poor Dad 10 16
Robert Kiyosaki, Sharon Lechter / Warner Business (P)
8 Total Money Makeover 9 5
Dave Ramsey / Thomas Nelson (H)
9 Think Big . . . in Business and Life 9 14
Donald Trump, Bill Zanker / Collins (H)
10 Getting Things Done 8 6
David Allen / Penguin (P)
11 You're Broke Because . . . Want to Be 8 New
Larry Winget / Gotham (H)
12 7 Habits of Highly Effective People 8 8
Stephen Covey / Free Press (P)
13 Now, Discover Your Strengths 8 7
Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton / Free Press (H)
14 The Tipping Point 8 13
Malcolm Gladwell / Back Bay (P)
15 J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 7 5
J.K. Lasser / John Wiley & Sons (P)
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, Books-
a-Million, Borders and Waldenbooks stores, as well as sales from online
retailers Amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com. The business list also includes
figures from 800-CEO-READ. A sales index of 100 is equivalent to the median
number of copies of the No. 1 fiction bestselling titles sold each week
during 2006. (P) Paperback; (H) Hardback. Refer questions to
