Feb. 21, 2009

Hardcover Fiction

1. The Associate, by John Grisham (Doubleday $27.95)

2. Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese (Knopf $26.95)

3. Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer (Dial Press $22)

4. Little Bee, by Chris Cleave (Simon & Schuster $24)

5. Run for Your Life, by James Patterson (Little Brown & Co. $27.99)

6. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, by Jamie Ford (Ballantine Books $24)

7. The Help, by Kathryn Stockett (Putnam $24.95)

Paperback Fiction

1. The Shack, by William Young (Windblown $14.99)

2. The Reader, by Bernhard Schlink (Vintage $13.95)

3. The Commoner, by John Schwartz (Vintage $14.95)

4. The Reserve, by Russell Banks (Harper $14.99)

5. People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks (Penguin $15)

6. Vanishing Act of Esme Lenox, by Maggie O'Farrell (Harvest $14)

7. The Housekeeper & the Professor, by Yoko Ogawa (Picador $14)

Hardcover Nonfiction

1. Positivity, by Barbara Fredrickson (Crown $24.95)

2. Hometown Appetites, by Kelly Alexander (Gotham $27.50)

3. Last Days of the Romanovs, by Helen Rappaport (St. Martin's $25.95)

4. Who Switched Off My Brain, by Dr. Caroline Leaf (Switch On Your Brain $17.95)

5. Baked, by Matt Lewis & Renato Poliafito (Stewart, Tabori &Chang $29.95)

6. Tried by War, by James McPherson (Penguin $35)

7. Mornings With Barney, by Dick Wolfsie (Skyhorse $21.95)

Paperback Nonfiction

1. Three Cups of Tea, by Greg Mortenson (Penguin $15)

2. American Jezebel, by Eve LePlante (Harper $14.95)

3. Valkyrie, by Hans Gisevius (DeCapo $15.95)

4. Suzee Orman's 2009 Action Plan, by Suzee Orman (Spiegel & Grau $9.99)

5. Overhills, by Jeffrey Irwin and Kaitlin O'Shea (Arcadia $19.95)

6. Same Kind of Different As Me, by Ron Hall (Thomas Nelson $14.99)

7. How Starbucks Saved My Life, by Michael Gates Gill (Gotham $13)

Children's Books

1. Little House on the Prairie, by Laura Wilder (Harper $6.99)

2. Three Cups of Tea, by Greg Mortenson (Puffin $8.99)

3. New Moon, by Stephenie Meyer (Little Brown $10.99

4. Keeping Secrets, by PJ Denton (Aladdin $3.99)

5. My First Garden, by Wendy Lewison (Little Simon $6.99)

6. Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman (Harper $17.99)

7. Fancy Nancy's Fashion Parade!, by Jane O'Connor (Harper $6.99)

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