Saturday, Sept. 9

Hardcover Fiction

1. Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, by Fannie Flag (Random House $25.95)

2. Special Topics in Calamity Physics, by Marisha Pessl (Penguin $25.95)

3. Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen (Workman $23.95)

4. Gone with the Windsors, by Laurie Graham (Harper $24.95)

5. Happiness Sold Separately, by Lolly Winston (Warner $21.95)

6. Afghan, by Frederic Forsyth (Penguin $26.95)

7. On Agate Hill, by Lee Smith (Workman $24.95)

Paperback Fiction

1. Memory Keeper's Daughter, by Kim Edwards (Penguin $14)

2. Breath of Snow and Ashes, by Diana Gabaldon (Random House $15)

3. Devil Wears Prada, by Lauren Weisberger (Random House $7.99)

4. Faithless, by Karin Slaughter (W. Morrow $7.99)

5. Freddy and Fredericka, by Mark Helprin (Penguin $15)

6. Lucia Lucia, by Adriana Trigiani (Random House $13.95)

7. Plantation, by Dorothea Benton Frank (Penguin $7.99)

Hardcover Nonfiction

1. Marley & Me, by John Grogan (William Morrow $21.95)

2. I Feel Bad About my Neck, by Nora Ephron (Random House $19.95)

3. Chosen by a Horse, by Susan Richards (SoHo Press $20)

4. Elizabeth, by J. Randy Taraborrelli (Warner $26.99)

5. Before You Leap, by Kermit the Frog (Meredith $16.95)

6. Lies at the Altar, by Robin Smith (Warner $24.95)

7. Overcoming Life's Disappointments, by Harold Kushner (Knopf $21.95)

Paperback Nonfiction

1. Best Garden Plants of NC, by Pam Beck (Lone Pine $16.95)

2. Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls (Simon & Schuster $14)

3. 97 Ways to Make a Baby Laugh, by Jack Moore (Workman $6.95)

4. Guns, Germs, & Steel, by Jared Diamond (Norton $16.95)

5. Mutant Message Down Under, by Marlo Morgan (Perennial $12.95)

6. US Pony Club Manual of Horsemanship, by Susan Harris (Howell $19.99)

7. Year by the Sea, by Joan Anderson (Random House $12.95)

Children's Books

1. Eats, Shoots, and Leaves, by Lynne Truss (Penguin $15.99)

2. First 100 Machines Board Book, by Priddy Books (Von Holtzbrink $8.95)

3. Beaver, by Glen Rounds (Holiday House $16.95)

4. I Know an Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly, by Claudia Rueda (Piggy Toes $12.95)

5. I Stink, by Kate McMullan (HarperTrophy $6.99)

6. Sweet Brian Goes to School, by Karma Wilson (Penguin $5.99)

7. Black Water, by D. J. MacHale (Aladdin $5.99)

The Sandhills Bestseller List is compiled by The Country Bookshop in Southern Pines.