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Best-sellers, February 27

Published February 25, 2009 at 5:08 p.m.

So you're a fan of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight saga, but even you - unabashed fan that you are of vampires and young love - have reached your saturation point. Perhaps instead you'll be interested in Meyer's first venture into adult fiction, sci-fi thriller The Host. If so, you won't be alone: It's running at third on the Publisher's Weekly fiction best-seller list.

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

* Fiction

1. The Associate - John Grisham. Doubleday

2. Run for Your Life - Andrea Kane. Pocket Books

3. The Host - Stephenie Meyer. Little, Brown

4. Fool - Christopher Moore. Morrow

5. Bone Crossed - Patricia Briggs. Ace

* *Nonfiction

1. The Yankee Years - Joe Torre and Tom Verducci. Doubleday

2. Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell. Little, Brown

3. The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow. Hyperion

4. Uncommon - Tony Dungy with Nathan Whitaker. Tyndale House

5. Dewey - Vicki Myron with Bret Witter. Grand Central

LOCAL BEST-SELLERS

* Fiction

1. Fool - Christopher Moore

2. Drood - Dan Simmons

3. Heart and Soul - Maeve Binchy

4. Among the Mad - Jacqueline Winspear

5. Lamb - Christopher Moore

* Nonfiction

1. Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell

2. Animals Make Us Human - Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson

3. The Inaugural Address, 2009 - Barack Obama

4. The Yankee Years - Joe Torre and Tom Verducci

5. Nine Lives - Dan Baum

*We've eliminated self-help, cooking and how-to books from the PW list to display a wider array of titles. Local information is from the Tattered Cover, Borders Books at Park Meadows and the Boulder Book Store.

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