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Published: October 5, 2008

Fiction

1. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, by David Wroblewski. Ecco, $25.95.

*2. The Other Queen, by Philippa Gregory. Touchstone, $25.95. The story of Mary, Queen of Scots, in captivity under Queen Elizabeth.

*3. Faefever, by Karen Marie Moning. Delacorte, $25.95. MacKayla is caught in the middle as the faes battle it out in Dublin; the third part of the Fever series.

*4. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson. Knopf, $24.95. A hacker and a journalist help a wealthy octogenarian investigate his niece's disappearance 40 years ago; the first part of a trilogy by the late Swedish journalist.

5. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. Dial, $22.

6. The Book of Lies, by Brad Meltzer. Grand Central, $25.99.

7. The Host, by Stephenie Meyer. Little, Brown, $25.99.

8. Anathem, by Neal Stephenson. William Morrow, $29.95.

9. American Wife, by Curtis Sittenfeld. Random House, $26.

*10. Indignation, by Philip Roth. Houghton Mifflin, $26. A Newark, N.J., college student in the Korean War era breaks with his parents and goes to a school in the Midwest.

Nonfiction

1. Hot, Flat and Crowded, by Thomas L. Friedman. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27.95.

2. The War Within, by Bob Woodward. Simon & Schuster, $32.

3. The Limits of Power, by Andrew Bacevich. Metropolitan/Holt, $25.

*4. Angler, by Barton Gellman. Penjuin, $27.95. Dick Cheney's actions as vice president are explored by The Washington Post reporter.

*5. Through the Storm, by Lynne Spears with Lorilee Craker. Nelson, $24.99. Britney Spears' mother gives her perspective on her family's perils.

6. Stori Telling, by Tori Spelling with Hilary Liftin. Simon Spotlight, $24.95.

*7. Boys Will Be Boys, by Jeff Pearlman. Harper, $25.95. A chronicle of the Super Bowl-winning Dallas Cowboys of the 1990s.

8. Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea, by Chelsea Handler. Simon Spotlight Entertainment, $24.95.

*9. The Forever War, by Dexter Filkins. Knopf, $25. A distillation of his work in Iraq and Afghanistan by The New York Times correspondent.

10. Fleeced, by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann. Harper, $26.95.

* -- Indicates first appearance on the list.

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