1. Bossypants
Tina Fey
The 17 Day Diet
2. The 17 Day Diet: A Doctor's Plan Designed for Rapid Results
Mike Moreno
Heaven is for Real
3. Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His...
Todd Burpo
The EveryGirls
4. The EveryGirl's Guide to Life
Maria Menounos
The Twilight Saga
5. The Twilight Saga: The Official Illustrated Guide
Stephenie Meyer
Unbroken
6. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and...
Laura Hillenbrand
The Best Advice I Ever Got
7. The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives
Katie Couric
I'm Over All That
8. I'm Over All That: And Other Confessions
Shirley MacLaine
Dead Reckoning
9. Dead Reckoning (Sookie Stackhouse, Book 11)
Charlaine Harris
My Father's Daughter
10. My Father's Daughter: Delicious, Easy Recipes Celebrating...
Gwyneth Paltrow

Who says the kids today don't read? After the phenomenon of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows topped our year-end bestseller list (and then some) last year, two of our top three bestselling books for 2008 are, like Harry's, fantastic stories written for younger readers that have found an eager audience among grown-ups too: the final volume in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series, Breaking Dawn, and Christopher Paolini's third Eragon book, Brisingr.
See our complete top 100 bestsellers for 2008 below. (Ranked according to customer orders through October. Only books published for the first time in 2008 are eligible.) Find many more customers favorites and editors' picks in our Best of 2008 Store.
Here we just list the top 10.

The top 25 business books sold this month at 800 CEO Read.com.

Long ago, when I was a graduate student in English, I was taught to scoff at terms like "the best books of the year." Everything back then had to be "contextualized" and "problematized" and shaken up in a blender and "theorized." But even then, when I was trying to sound like a true believer in the cult of deconstruction, I didn't buy it. Some books are just better than others.
You know you have a terrific book in your hands when you encounter language or elegantly presented research that startles you into fresh awareness; you know it when the atmosphere of a novel doesn't leave you for days, or years. In the case of the books listed below, I know they're among the "Best Books of 2008" because I'd be happy to read all of them � again.

You've shopped for the family, put up the tree, baked the kugel, prepped the brisket and mailed off your packages. Now give yourself a present: time alone with a good book. I read scads of them over the year, and these five would be particularly good company if and when you manage to grab a little quiet time during all the holiday chaos. (If you're feeling extra-generous, they're good presents for other people, too.)

The editors of the Book Review of NewYork Times have selected these titles from the list of 100 Notable Books of 2008.

Listen up, Barack Obama! You'll find useful reading on LJ's annual Best Books list, from Stephen Hess's What Do We Do Now? A Workbook for the President-Elect to Mahvish Rukhsana Khan's My Guant�namo Diary: The Detainees and the Stories They Told Me and Raja Shehadeh's Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape. It's not all politics, though. From fiction debuts by Uwem Akpan, Nam Le, and Sa�a Stani�ic� to works from masters Toni Morrison, Philip Roth, and Marilynne Robinson, from a biography of Shakespeare's wife to a chronicle of Sixties �girls like us,� and from accounts of divorce and madness to hot thrillers and cool how-to, this list has enough to occupy anyone for the coming year.