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Best-sellers, Aug. 8

Rocky Mountain News

Published August 6, 2008 at 3:32 p.m.

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It's too soon for the sales figures from Stephenie Meyer's blockbuster, Breaking Dawn - which went on sale at 12:01 a.m. Aug. 2 - to register on the PW list. But there's no question the last installment in Meyer's vampire tale will be taking a bite out of book sales everywhere. Look for it to zoom to the top of the PW list next week, as it has on this week's local list.

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

* Fiction

1. Moscow Rules - Daniel Silva. Putnam

2. The Host - Stephenie Meyer. Little, Brown

3. Tribute - Nora Roberts. Putnam

4. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle - David Wroblewski. Ecco

5. The Last Patriot - Brad Thor. Atria

* Nonfiction*

1. The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow. Hyperion

2. When You Are Engulfed in Flames - David Sedaris. Little, Brown

3. Life With My Sister Madonna - Christopher Ciccone and Wendy Leigh. Simon Spotlight Entertainment

4. Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea - Chelsea Handler. Simon Spotlight Entertainment

5. The Dark Side - Jane Mayer. Doubleday

LOCAL BEST-SELLERS

* Fiction

1. Breaking Dawn - Stephenie Meyer

2. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle - David Wroblewski

3. Moscow Rules - Daniel Silva

4. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz

5. Rules of Deception - Christopher Reich

* Nonfiction

1. The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow

2. When You Are Engulfed in Flames - David Sedaris

3. Rome 1960 - David Maraniss

4. A Letter to America - David Boren

5. Goodnight Bush - Gan Golan and Erich Origen

* We have eliminated self-help and how-to books from the PW list to display a wider array of titles. Local information is from the Tattered Cover, Borders in Park Meadows and the Boulder Book Store.