Top 50 Best Selling Books 2008 by Best Book Seller in World Reporting stores include: Amazon.com, B. Dalton Bookseller, Barnes & Noble.com, Barnes & Noble Inc., Books-A-Million and Bookland, Booksamillion.com, Borders Books & Music, Bookstar, Bookstop, Brentano's, Davis Kidd Booksellers in Nashville, Jackson, Memphis, Tenn., Doubleday Book Shops, Hudson Booksellers, Joseph-Beth Booksellers (Lexington, Ky.; Cincinnati, Cleveland), Powell's Books (Portland, Ore.), Powells.com, R.J. Julia Booksellers (Madison, Conn.), Schuler.
1. "Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia" by Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin) (NF-P)
2. "The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town" by John Grisham, (Dell) (NF-P)
3. "The Pillars of the Earth" by Ken Follett (NAL Trade) (F-P)
4. "I Am America (And So Can You!)" by Stephen Colbert (Grand Central Publishing) (NF-H)
5. "Blood Brothers: Sign of Seven Trilogy, Book 1" by Nora Roberts (Jove) (F-P)
6. "The Dangerous Book for Boys" by Conn Iggulden and Hal Iggulden (Collins) (NF-H)
7. "Double Cross" by James Patterson (Little, Brown and Company) (F-H)
8. "You: Staying Young: The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty" by Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet C. Oz (Free Press) (NF-H)
9. "T is for Trespass" by Sue Grafton (Putnam) (F-H)
10. "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead Hardcover) (F-H)
11. "The Daring Book for Girls" by Andrea J. Buchanan, Miriam Peskowitz, (Collins)(NF-H)
12. "For One More Day" by Mitch Albom (Hyperion) (F-H)
13. "His Dark Materials" by Philip Pullman (Knopf Books for Young Readers) (F-P)
14. "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman (Yearling) (F-P)
15. "Atonement" by Ian McEwan (Anchor)
16. "Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day" by Joel Osteen (Free Press) (NF-H)
17. "Deceptively Delicious" by Jessica Seinfeld (HarperCollins) (NF-H)
18. "The Darkest Evening of the Year" by Dean Koontz (Bantam) (F-H)
19. "Boom!: Voices of the Sixties Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today" by Tom Brokaw (Random House) (NF-H)
20. "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead) (F-P)
21. "I Am Legend" by Richard Matheson (Tor) (F-P)
22. "Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Vintage) (F-P)
23. "The Secret" by Rhonda Byrne (Atria Books/Beyond Words) (NF-H)
24. "Three Cups Of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time" by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (Penguin) (NF-P)
25. "Playing for Pizza" by John Grisham (Doubleday) (F-H)
26. "The Choice" by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing) (F-H
27. "Jim Cramer's Stay Mad for Life: Get Rich, Stay Rich (Make Your Kids Even Richer)" by James J. Cramer, Cliff Mason (Simon & Schuster) (NF-H)
28. "Rachael Ray: Just in Time" by Rachael Ray (Clarkson Potter) (NF-H)
29. "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling, art by Mary GrandPre (Arthur A. Levine/Scholastic)
30. "Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, and Priorities of a Winning Life" by Tony Dungy, Nathan Whitaker (Tyndale)
31. "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen (Algonquin) (F-P)
32. "Clapton: The Autobiography" by Eric Clapton (Broadway)(NF-H)
33. "Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life" by Steve Martin (Scribner) (NF-H)
34. "Guinness World Records 2008" by Guinness World Records (Guinness) (NF-H)
35. "World Without End" by Ken Follett (Dutton) (F-H)
36. "Rescuing Sprite: A Dog Lover's Story of Joy and Anguish" by Mark R. Levin (Pocket) (NF-H)
37. "An Inconvenient Book: Real Solutions to the World's Biggest Problems" by Glenn Beck (Threshold Editions) (NF-H)
38. "A Family Christmas" by Caroline Kennedy, (Hyperion) (NF-H)
39. "Into the Wild" by John Krakauer (Anchor) (NF-P)
40. "Stone Cold" by David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing) (F-H)
41. "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown) (F-P)
42. "Good Dog. Stay." by Anna Quindlen (Random House) (NF-H)
43. "90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life" by Don Piper with Cecil Murphey (Revell) (NF-P)
44. "Next" by Michael Chrichton (Harper) (F-P)
45. "Star Wars: A Pop-Up Guide to the Galaxy" by Matthew Reinhart (Orchard Books/Scholastic) (F-H)
46. "Home to Holly Springs" by Jan Karon (Viking) (F-H)
47. "Christmas with Paula Deen: Recipes and Stories from My Favorite Holiday" by Paula Deen (Simon and Schuster) (NF-H)
48. "P.S., I Love You" by Cecelia Ahern (Hyperion) (F-P)
49. "Skinny B----" by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin (Running Press) (NF-P)
50. "Book of the Dead" by Patricia Cornwell (Putnam Adult) (F-H)
Note : Key: F-Fiction; NF-Nonfiction; H-Hardcover; P-Paperback
