According to USA TODAY, the following is a list of the top 150 best selling books, based on sales through Sunday, 07/25/2010. For reviews, book news and a searchable archive of USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list - or to check out more information on the top 150 books, visit their website.
Note of the week: 33% of the top 150 best selling books fall under the Children's / YA genre (highlighted in blue), of which Jeff Kinney holds 4 spots for his WIMPY KID series. Here are a few facts from USA Today, about Jeff Kinney:
This Week Title, Author (Publisher), Price
1 The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson (Vintage), $14.95
2 Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin), $15.00
3 The Girl Who Played With Fire, Stieg Larsson (Vintage), $15.95
4 The Rembrandt Affair, Daniel Silva (Putnam Adult), $26.95
5 The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, Stieg Larsson (Knopf), $27.95
6 Charlie St. Cloud: A Novel, Ben Sherwood (Bantam), $7.99
7 The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner, Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown), $13.99
8 Fly Away Home, Jennifer Weiner (Atria), $26.99
9 Private, James Patterson, Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown), $27.99
10 Smash Cut, Sandra Brown (Pocket), $9.99
11 The Search, Nora Roberts (Putnam Adult), $26.95
12 Breaking Dawn, Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown for Young Readers), $22.99
13 To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee (Grand Central Publishing), $6.99
14 The Help, Kathryn Stockett (Putnam Adult), $24.95
15 Eclipse, Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown for Young Readers), $12.99
16 Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything, Geneen Roth (Scribner), $24.00
17 Under the Dome, Stephen King (Pocket), $19.99
18 Nine Dragons, Michael Connelly (Vision), $9.99
19 The Obama Diaries, Laura Ingraham (Threshold Editions), $25.00
20 Sizzling Sixteen, Janet Evanovich (St. Martin's), $27.99
21 Beezus and Ramona, Beverly Cleary (HarperCollins), $5.99
22 The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press), $8.99
23 The Lucky One, Nicholas Sparks (Vision), $7.99
24 Sh*t My Dad Says, Justin Halpern (It Books), $15.99
25 The Neighbor, Lisa Gardner (Bantam), $7.99
26 Linger, Maggie Stiefvater (Scholastic), $17.99
27 Knock Out, Catherine Coulter (Jove), $9.99
28 One Night, Debbie Macomber (Harper), $7.99
29 The Kane Chronicles, Book 1: The Red Pyramid, Rick Riordan (Hyperion), $17.99
30 Pretty Little Liars, Sara Shepard (HarperTeen), $8.99
31 McKettricks of Texas: Austin, Linda Lael Miller (HQN), $7.99
32 Little Bee: A Novel, Chris Cleave (Simon & Schuster), $14.00
33 Twilight, Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown for Young Readers), $8.99
34 Sweet Rains, Nora Roberts (Silhouette Special Releases), $7.99
35 New Moon, Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown for Young Readers), $10.99
36 Think of a Number: A Novel, John Verdon (Crown), $22.00
37 Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 5: The Last Olympian, Rick Riordan (Disney-Hyperion), $17.99
38 Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin (Penguin), $15.00
39 Game Over, Fern Michaels (Zebra), $7.99
40 Best Friends Forever: A Novel, Jennifer Weiner (Washington Square Press), $15.00
41 Finger Lickin’ Fifteen, Janet Evanovich (St. Martin's Paperbacks), $8.99
42 Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour, Bryan Lee O’Malley (Oni Press), $11.99
43 One Day, David Nicholls (Vintage), $14.95
44 The Overton Window, Glenn Beck (Threshold Editions), $26.00
45 Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 2: The Sea of Monsters, Rick Riordan (Disney-Hyperion), $7.99
46 Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1: The Lightning Thief, Rick Riordan (Disney-Hyperion), $7.99
47 Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press), $17.99
48 Live to Tell, Lisa Gardner (Bantam), $26.00
49 The Passage: A Novel, Justin Cronin (Ballantine), $27.00
50 Chains of Ice, Christina Dodd (Onyx), $7.99
51 The Last Song, Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing), $7.99
52 The Glass Rainbow, James Lee Burke (Simon & Schuster), $25.99
53 Storm Cycle, Iris Johansen, Roy Johansen (St. Martin's Paperbacks), $7.99
54 Love in the Afternoon, Lisa Kleypas (St. Martin's Paperbacks), $7.99
55 Coming Back Stronger: Unleashing the Hidden Power of Adversity, Drew Brees, Chris Fabry (Tyndale House), $26.99
56 Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 4: The Battle of the Labyrinth, Rick Riordan (Disney-Hyperion), $7.99
57 Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 3: The Titan’s Curse, Rick Riordan (Disney-Hyperion), $7.99
58 Ice Cold: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel, Tess Gerritsen (Ballantine Books), $26.00
59 Foreign Influence, Brad Thor (Atria), $26.99
60 Black Hills, Nora Roberts (Jove), $7.99
61 Pretty Little Liars: Flawless, Sara Shepard (HarperTeen), $8.99
62 Dead in the Family, Charlaine Harris (Ace), $25.95
63 StrengthsFinder 2.0, Tom Rath (Gallup Press), $22.95
64 The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett (Signet), $9.99
65 Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese (Vintage), $15.95
66 The Twilight Saga: Eclipse: The Official Illustrated Movie Companion, Mark Cotta Vaz (Little, Brown), $18.99
67 A Summer in Sonoma, Robyn Carr (MIRA), $7.99
68 The Lion, Nelson DeMille (Grand Central Publishing), $27.99
69 The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel, Garth Stein (Harper Paperback), $14.99
70 The Shack, William P. Young (Windblown Media), $14.99
71 Troublemaker, Bk. 1, Janet Evanovich, Alex Evanovich, Joëlle Jones (Dark Horse Comics), $17.99
72 Ramona’s World, Beverly Cleary (HarperFestival), $5.99
73 Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea, Chelsea Handler (Simon Spotlight Entertainment), $16.00
74 The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger (Little, Brown), $6.99
75 Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang, Chelsea Handler (Grand Central Publishing), $25.99
76 Sliding Into Home, Kendra Wilkinson (Gallery), $25.00
77 My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands, Chelsea Handler (Bloomsbury USA), $13.95
78 The Host, Stephenie Meyer (Back Bay Books), $16.99
79 Dark Flame, Alyson Noel (St. Martin's Griffin), $17.99
80 Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen (Algonquin), $13.95
81 Dead Until Dark, Charlaine Harris (Ace), $7.99
82 Almost Perfect, Susan Mallery (HQN), $7.99
83 Family Ties: A Novel, Danielle Steel (Delacorte Press), $28.00
84 Ghost Shadow, Heather Graham (MIRA), $7.99
85 Burned, P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast (St. Martin's Griffin), $17.99
86 Faithful Place: A Novel, Tana French (Viking Adult), $25.95
87 The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, Michael Lewis (W. W. Norton & Co.), $27.95
88 Sarah’s Key, Tatiana de Rosnay (St. Martin's Griffin), $13.95
89 Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose, Tony Hsieh (Business Plus), $23.99
90 What to Expect When You’re Expecting, Heidi Murkoff, Sharon Mazel (Workman Publishing Group), $14.95
91 Star Wars: The Old Republic: Fatal Alliance, Sean Williams (LucasBooks), $27.00
92 The Island, Elin Hilderbrand (Reagan Arthur), $25.99
93 Dead and Gone, Charlaine Harris (Ace), $7.99
94 Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury (Del Rey), $6.99
95 The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet: A Novel, David Mitchell (Random House), $26.00
96 The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary, Jeff Kinney (Amulet Books), $14.95
97 The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho (HarperSanFrancisco), $13.95
98 Swimsuit, James Patterson, Maxine Paetro (Grand Central Publishing), $14.99
99 Pretty Little Liars: Perfect, Sara Shepard (HarperTeen), $8.99
100 The Brazen Bride, Stephanie Laurens (Avon), $7.99
101 Matters of the Heart, Danielle Steel (Dell), $7.99
102 Black Magic, Cherry Adair (Pocket Star), $7.99
103 The Defector, Daniel Silva (Signet), $9.99
104 Rushed to the Altar, Jane Feather (Pocket), $7.99
105 A Reliable Wife, Robert Goolrick (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill), $14.95
106 In a Heartbeat: Sharing the Power of Cheerful Giving, Leigh Anne Tuohy, Sean Tuohy, with Sally Jenkins (Henry Holt), $24.00
107 206 Bones: A Novel, Kathy Reichs (Pocket Star), $7.99
108 The Darkest Lie, Gena Showalter (HQN), $7.99
109 The 39 Clues: The Maze Of Bones, Rick Riordan (Scholastic Press), $12.99
110 Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook, Anthony Bourdain (Ecco), $26.99
111 The Official SAT Study Guide, 2nd edition, The College Board (The College Board), $21.99
112 The Glass Castle: A Memoir, Jeannette Walls (Scribner), $14.00
113 The Book Thief, Markus Zusak (Knopf Books for Young Readers), $11.99
114 Heart of the Matter, Emily Giffin (St. Martin's Press), $26.99
115 Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Jeff Kinney (Amulet), $12.95
116 Spirit Bound, Richelle Mead (Razorbill), $17.99
117 Pretty Little Liars: Unbelievable, Sara Shepard (HarperTeen), $8.99
118 Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Jamie Ford (Ballantine Books), $15.00
119 Orchard Valley Grooms, Debbie Macomber (MIRA), $7.99
120 Dead to the World, Charlaine Harris (Ace), $7.99
121 Remember Me, Christopher Pike (Simon Pulse), $9.99
122 Whiplash, Catherine Coulter (Putnam Adult), $12.99
123 South of Broad, Pat Conroy (Dial Press), $16.00
124 Living Dead in Dallas, Charlaine Harris (Ace), $7.99
125 Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So-Popular Party Girl, Rachel Renée Russell (Aladdin), $12.99
126 Mennonite in a Little Black Dress, Rhoda Janzen (Holt Paperbacks), $14.00
127 Savor the Moment, Nora Roberts (Berkley), $16.00
128 Lord of the Flies, William Golding (Perigee), $9.99
129 Pretty Little Liars: Wanted, Sara Shepard (HarperTeen), $16.99
130 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling, art by Mary GrandPré (Arthur A. Levine Books), $14.99
131 Her Fearful Symmetry, Audrey Niffenegger (Scribner), $15.00
132 Goodnight Moon Board Book, Margaret Wise Brown, art by Clement Hurd (HarperCollins), $6.95
133 The Night Before Kindergarten, Natasha Wing, art by Julie Durrell (Grosset & Dunlap), $3.99
134 How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Thomas C. Foster (Harper Paperbacks), $13.00
135 From Dead to Worse, Charlaine Harris (Ace), $7.99
136 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days, Jeff Kinney (Amulet Books), $13.95
137 L.A. Candy, Lauren Conrad (HarperCollins), $9.99
138 1984, George Orwell (Signet Classic), $7.95
139 Club Dead, Charlaine Harris (Ace), $6.50
140 Dead As a Doornail, Charlaine Harris (Ace), $7.99
141 Shiver, Maggie Stiefvater (Scholastic), $8.99
142 The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (Scribner), $12.95
143 Only the Good Spy Young, Ally Carter (Hyperion), $16.99
144 Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer, John Grisham (Dutton), $16.99
145 Lego Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary, DK Publishing (DK Publishing), $21.99
146 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules, Jeff Kinney (Amulet), $12.95
147 Pretty Little Liars: Wicked, Sara Shepard (HarperTeen), $8.99
148 Pretty Little Liars: Heartless, Sara Shepard (HarperTeen), $16.99
149 The 5 Love Languages, Gary Chapman (Moody Publishers), $14.99
150 The Castaways, Elin Hilderbrand (Back Bay Books), $14.99