Here are the best-sellers for the week that ended Saturday, Nov. 15, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide.

"Relevance: Making Stuff that Matters" by Tim Manners; Portfolio, 272 pages ($24.95)

"Just After Sunset" by Stephen King; Scribner ($28)

If the presidential election gave rise to a spate of political books, the post-election season is no different.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. Stephenie Meyer did what many professed to be impossible. She convinced millions of teens and tweens to read something other than a text message or a computer screen. She got them to read her book called "Twilight," which is a novel about star-crossed lovers where one of the high school juniors happens to be a vampire.

MINNEAPOLIS Wally Lamb's new novel, 450,000 copies of which have just arrived in bookstores, is big enough to threaten Thanksgiving and maybe even Christmas, as readers ignore turkey basting and tinsel tossing to turn the 723 wide-ranging, heavily plotted pages of "The Hour I First Believed."

PHILADELPHIA Ted Turner has always had a singular rhetorical style: Open mouth. Let 'er rip.

"Salvation in Death" by J.D. Robb; Putnam ($25.95)

"Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen" by Philip Dray; Houghton Mifflin ($30)

FRESNO, Calif. After a fourth-grade student checked out a novel about teen suicide from a school library and his mother complained, Clovis Unified officials scoured the shelves of its other elementary schools in search of the book.

"Pete Dye Golf Courses: Fifty Years of Visionary Design" by Joel Zuckerman; Abrams ($50)

Here are the best-sellers for the week that ended Saturday, Nov. 8, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide.

"Pete Dye Golf Courses: Fifty Years of Visionary Design" by Joel Zuckerman; Abrams ($50)

It was November 2006 - too early for anyone to be worrying about a recession or a stock market decline or the cascade of foreclosures that were to come. But here and there, some people were holding up yellow lights, warning of financial changes, of impending danger.

"Suite 606" by J.D. Robb, Mary Blayney, Ruth Ryan Langan, Mary Kay McComas; Berkley ($7.99, paperback)

Solitude has become a dirty word in our culture.

"A Mercy" by Toni Morrison; Alfred A. Knopf ($23.95)

"Tales From the Perilous Realm" by J.R.R. Tolkien; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ($28)

Maybe it's because media people know how to get attention. Or maybe it's because the media pay attention to celebrities. Or maybe it's just because Ted Turner is an enigma.