Saturday, Sept. 17

Hardcover Fiction

1. Sweetwater Creek, by Anne Rivers Siddons (HarperCollins $24.95)

2. Hunt Ball, by Rita Mae Brown (Ballantine $24.95)

3. Widow of the South, by Robert Hicks (Warner $24.95)

4. Belle Ruin, by Martha Grimes (Viking $25.95)

5. Fiddlers, by Ed McBain (Harcourt $25)

6. Pirate, by Ted Bell (Atria $25)

7. Woodsman’s Daughter, by Gwyn Hyman Rubio (Viking $24.95)

Paperback Fiction

1. Harvard Yard, by William Martin (Warner $7.99)

2. My Sister’s Keeper, by Jodi Picoult (Simon & Schuster $14)

3. Red Clay, Blue Cadillac, by Michael Malone (Sourcebooks $15)

4. Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafron (Penguin $15)

5. Waiting for Teddy Williams, by Howard Mosher (Mariner $13)

6. 4 Past Midnight, by Stephen King (Signet $7.99)

7. Absolute Power, by David Balducci (Warner $7.99)

Hardcover Nonfiction

1. 1776, by David McCullough (Simon & Schuster $32)

2. Pinehurst Golf History and The Good Life, by Audrey Moriarty (Sports Media $26.95)

3. Bob Dylan Scrapbook, by Bob Dylan (Simon & Schuster $45)

4. FairTax Book, by Neal Boortz (ReganBooks $24.95)

5. Solo, by Clyde Edgerton (Algonquin $23.95)

6. World is Flat, by Thomas Friedman (Farrar Straus Giroux $27.50)

7. Younger Next Year, by Chris Crowley (Workman $24.95)

Paperback Nonfiction

1. Eden in the Pines, Richard Moss (The Pilot $14.95)

2. Sudoku Easy Vol . 1, by Will Shortz (St. Martin’s Griffin $6.95)

3. 100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know, by American Heritage (Houghton Mifflin $4.95)

4. Amazing But True Golf Facts, by Allan Zullo (Andrews McMeel $9.95)

5. Blood Done Sign My Name, by Timothy Tyson (Three Rivers Press $14)

6. Mistress of the Eligin Marbles, by Susan Nagel (HarperCollins $14.95)

7. Sudoku Easy to Hard Vol. 2, by Will Shortz (St. Martin’s Griffin $6.95)

Children’s Books

1. Eldest, by Christopher Paolini (Alfred A. Knopf $21)

2. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, by J.K. Rowling (Scholastic $29.99)

3. Biscuit, by Alyssa Capucilli (HarperTrophy $3.99)

4. Biscuit Goes to School, by Alyssa Capucilli (HarperTrophy $3.99)

5. Skippyjon Jones, by Judith Schachner (Puffin $5.99)

6. First Prayers, by Tasha Tudor (Random House Books for Young Readers $6.99)