Per Petterson is placed on the 16th place on the New York Times bestseller list for paperbacks this week! Very nice for Per Petterson!

Paperback Trade Fiction, Published: August 10, 2008

1. THE SHACK, by William P. Young. A man whose daughter was abducted is invited to an isolated shack, apparently by God.

2. WATER FOR ELEPHANTS, by Sara Gruen. A young man — and an elephant — save a Depression-era circus.

3. THE KITE RUNNER, by Khaled Hosseini. An Afghan-American returns to Kabul to learn how a childhood friend has fared under the Taliban.

4. BAREFOOT, by Elin Hilderbrand. Three women burdened by various problems (work, love, health) spend a transformative summer together on Nantucket.

5. THE ALCHEMIST, by Paulo Coelho. A Spanish shepherd boy travels to Egypt in search of treasure.

6. IN THE WOODS, by Tana French. An Irish detective investigating the murder of a 12-year-old girl returns to the woods where he experienced a terrible ordeal during his own childhood.

7. NINETEEN MINUTES, by Jodi Picoult. The aftermath of a high school shooting reveals the fault lines in a small New Hampshire town.

8. THE ROAD, by Cormac McCarthy. A father and son travel in post-apocalypse America.

9. LOVING FRANK, by Nancy Horan. A story of the romance between Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Borthwick Cheney, and the scandal that followed when they left behind spouses and children.

10. THE FRIDAY NIGHT KNITTING CLUB, by Kate Jacobs.  A group of women meet weekly at a New York City yarn shop.

11. MY SISTER’S KEEPER, by Jodi Picoult. A girl sues her parents after learning they want her to donate a kidney to her sibling.

12. THE LAST SUMMER (OF YOU AND ME), by Ann Brashares.  The bond between two sisters is tested by a romance with an old friend.

13. THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES, by Sue Monk Kidd. In South Carolina in 1964, a teenage girl tries to discover the secret to her mother’s past.

14. SECOND CHANCE, by Jane Green.A group of 30-something friends reconsider their lives after one of their number is killed in a terrorist attack.

15. THE MEMORY KEEPER’S DAUGHTER, by Kim Edwards. A doctor’s decision to secretly send his newborn daughter, who has Down syndrome, to an institution haunts everyone involved.

16. OUT STEALING HORSES, by Per Petterson.  In a remote cabin, a Norwegian man circles around his memories of the past.

17. THOSE WHO SAVE US, by Jenna Blum.  A professor of German history investigates what really went on in her mother’s life in Germany during World War II.

18. ON CHESIL BEACH, by Ian McEwan. A wedding night goes terribly wrong.

19. THE YIDDISH POLICEMEN’S UNION, by Michael Chabon. A detective investigates a murder in a Jewish settlement in Alaska.

20. TRUE TO THE GAME III, by Teri Woods. Gangsters, crooked cops and a vicious killer pursue Gena in this conclusion to the True to the Game trilogy.

21. THE GATHERING, by Anne Enright

22. THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH, by Ken Follett

23. MIDDLESEX, by Jeffrey Eugenides

24. THE GATECRASHER, by Madeleine Wickham

25. GHOSTWALK, by Rebecca Stott

26. THE GRAVEDIGGER’S DAUGHTER, by Joyce Carol Oates

27. ISLAND OF LOST GIRLS, by Jennifer McMahon

28. SOMETHING BORROWED, by Emily Giffin

29. AWAY, by Amy Bloom

30. REPLAY, by Ken Grimwood

31. BUDDHA, by Deepak Chopra

32. THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL, by Philippa Gregory

33. THE BOLEYN INHERITANCE, by Philippa Gregory

34. RANT, by Chuck Palahniuk

35. THE MAYTREES, by Annie Dillard