The On-Sale Calendar: October 2010

October 1

Skinny Bitch: Ultimate Everyday Cookbook: Crazy Delicious Recipes That Are Good to the Earth and Great for Your Bod by Kim Barnouin (Running Press, $29.95; ISBN 978-0-7624-3937-9). 100,000 copies.

Countdown to Lockdown by Mick Foley (Grand Central, $26.99; ISBN 978-0-446-56461-8). 75,000 copies.

October 4

Great House: A Novel by Nicole Krauss (Norton, $24.95; ISBN 978-0-393-07998-2). 100,000 copies.

October 5

You: Raising Your Child by Dr. Michael F. Roizen and Dr. Mehmet C. Oz (Free Press, $26.99; ISBN 978-1-4391-0948-9). 1,000,000 copies.

The Reversal by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown, $27.99; ISBN 978-0-316-06948-9). 750,000 copies. One-day laydown.

At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson (Doubleday, $28.95; ISBN 978-0-7679-1938-8). 600,000 copies.

Promise Me by Richard Paul Evans (Simon & Schuster, $19.99; ISBN 978-1-4391-5003-0). 500,000 copies. One-day laydown.

The Valcourt Heiress by Catherine Coulter (Putnam, $25.95; ISBN 978-0-399-15675-5). 475,000 copies. One-day laydown.

Trickle Up Poverty by Michael Savage (Morrow, $26.99; ISBN 978-0-06-201097-1). 400,000 copies. One-day laydown.

Painted Ladies: A Spencer Novel by Robert B. Parker (Putnam, $26.95; ISBN 978-0-399-15685-4). 300,000 copies. One-day laydown.

The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values by Sam Harris (Free Press, $26; ISBN 978-1-4391-7121-9). 250,000 copies.

Warlord by Ted Bell (Morrow, $27.99; ISBN 978-0-06-185929-8). 250,000 copies. One-day laydown.

Is It Just Me?... Or Is It Nuts Out There? by Whoopi Goldberg (Hyperion, $22.99; ISBN 978-1-4013-2384-4). 200,000 copies.

Jamie’s America: Easy Twists on Great American Classics, and More by Jamie Oliver (Hyperion, $37.50; ISBN 978-1-4013-2360-8). 175,000 copies.

American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us by Robert D. Putnam and David E. Campbell (Simon & Schuster, $30; ISBN 978-1-4165-6671-7). 150,000 copies.

The Best American Short Stories 2010, edited by Richard Russo (HMH/Mariner Books, $14.95 paper; ISBN 978-0-547-05532-9). 150,000 copies.

Shadow Knights: The Secret War Against Hitler by Gary Kamiya (Simon & Schuster, $19.99; ISBN 978-1-4391-0904-5). 125,000 copies.

Devil Dog: The Amazing True Story of the Man Who Saved America by David Talbot (Simon & Schuster, $19.99; ISBN 978-1-4391-0902-1). 125,000 copies.

The Playbook: Suit Up. Score Chicks. Be Awesome. (A Bro Code Book) by Barney Stinson with Matt Kuhn (Touchstone, $13 paper; ISBN 978-1-4391-9683-0). 125,000 copies.

Cesar’s Rules: Your Way to Train a Well-Behaved Dog by Cesar Millan and Melissa Jo Peltier (Crown Archetype, $25.99; ISBN 978-0-307-71686-6). 100,000 copies.

Tears of a Clown: Glenn Beck and the Tea Bagging of America by Dana Milbank (Doubleday, $24.95; ISBN 978-0-385-53388-1). 100,000 copies.

Nemesis: A Novel by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26; ISBN 978-0-547-31835-6). 100,000 copies. One-day laydown.

Walking Wisdom: Three Generations, Two Dogs, and the Search for a Happy Life by Gotham Chopra with Deepak Chopra (Hyperion, $24.99; ISBN 978-1-4013-1034-9). 100,000 copies.

Southern Plate by Christy Jordan (Morrow Cookbooks, $27.50; ISBN 978-0-06-199101-1). 100,000 copies.

Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America by Eugene Robinson (Doubleday, $24.95; ISBN 978-0-385-52654-8). 75,000 copies.

The Mental Floss History of the United States by Erik Sass and Will Pearson (Harper, $24.99; ISBN 978-0-06-192822-2). 75,000 copies.

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2010, edited by Dave Eggers (HMH/Mariner Books, $14.95 paper; ISBN 978-0-547-24163-0). 75,000 copies.

Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation by Steven Johnson (Riverhead, $26.95; ISBN 978-1-59448-771-2). 75,000 copies. One-day laydown.

The Dog Who Couldn’t Stop Loving: How Dogs Have Captured Our Hearts for Thousands of Years by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (Harper, $25.99; ISBN 978-0-06-177109-5). 60,000 copies.

Fannie’s Last Supper: Two Years, Twelve Courses, and Creating One Amazing Meal from Fannie Farmer’s 1896 Cookbook by Christopher Kimball (Hyperion, $25.99; ISBN 978-1-4013-2322-6). 60,000 copies.

The False Friend: A Novel by Myla Goldberg (Doubleday, $25.95; ISBN 978-0-385-52721-7). 60,000 copies.

The Annotated Persuasion by Jane Austen, edited by David M. Shapard (Anchor, $16.95 paper; ISBN 978-0-307-39078-3). 50,000 copies.

Kill the Dead by Richard Kadrey (Eos, $22.99; ISBN 978-0-06-171431-3). 50,000 copies.

The Mendacity of Hope by Roger D. Hodge (Harper, $24.99; ISBN 978-0-06-201126-8). 50,000 copies.

Zapped: Why Your Cell Phone Shouldn’t Be Your Alarm Clock and 1,268 Ways to Outsmart the Hazards of Electronic Pollution by Ann Louise Gittleman (HarperOne, $25.99; ISBN 978-0-06-186427-8). 50,000 copies.

The Best American Comics 2010, edited by Neil Gaiman (HMH/Mariner Books, $23 paper; ISBN 978-0-547-24177-7). 50,000 copies.

The Best American Essays 2010, edited by Christopher Hitchens (HMH/Mariner Books, $14.95 paper; ISBN 978-0-547-39451-0). 50,000 copies.

The Best American Mystery Stories 2010, edited by Lee Child (HMH/Mariner Books, $14.95 paper; ISBN 978-0-547-23746-6). 50,000 copies.

The Best American Sports Writing 2010, edited by Peter Gammons (HMH/Mariner Books, $14.95 paper; ISBN 978-0-547-15248-6). 50,000 copies.

The Best American Travel Writing 2010, edited by Bill Buford (HMH/Mariner Books, $14.95 paper; ISBN 978-0-547-33335-9). 50,000 copies.

Joe Biden by Jules Witcover (Morrow, $25.99; ISBN 978-0-06-179198-7). 50,000 copies.

The New Brooklyn Cookbook by Melissa Vaughan and Brenda Vaughan (Morrow Cookbooks, $40; ISBN 978-0-06-195622-5). 50,000 copies.

The Good Fight: A Life in Liberal Politics by Walter Mondale (Scribner, $27.50; ISBN 978-1-4391-5866-1). 50,000 copies.

Blood-Dark Track: A Family History by Joseph O’Neill (Vintage, $15.95 paper; ISBN 978-0-307-47295-3). 50,000 copies.

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II by Sean Williams (Ballantine/LucasBooks, $27; ISBN 978-0-345-51154-6).

The Itteh Bitteh Book of Kittehs by Professor Happycat and Icanhascheezburger (Gotham, $12 paper; ISBN 978-1-59240-590-9).

I’m Not High by Jim Breuer (Gotham, $26; ISBN 978-1-59240-575-6).

October 8

Around My French Table: More Than 300 Recipes from My Home to Yours by Dorie Greenspan (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $40; ISBN 978-0-618-87553-5). 75,000 copies.

October 11

How Did I Get Here?: The Ascent of an Unlikely CEO by Tony Hawk and Pat Hawk (Wiley, $24.95; ISBN 978-0-470-63149-2). 100,000 copies.

Debunkery: Learn It, Do It, and Profit from It—Seeing Through Wall Street’s Money-Killing Myths by Ken Fisher (Wiley, $27.95; ISBN 978-0-470-28535-0). 100,000 copies.

Profiles in Leadership: Historians on the Elusive Quality of Greatness, edited by Walter Isaacson (Norton, $26.95; ISBN 978-0-393-07655-4). 50,000 copies.

October 12

American Assassin: A Thriller by Vince Flynn (Atria, $27.99; ISBN 978-1-4165-9518-2). 850,000 copies.

Dewey’s Nine Lives: The Legacy of the Small-Town Library Cat Who Inspired Millions by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter (Dutton, $19.95; ISBN 978-0-525-95186-5). 500,000 copies. One-day laydown.

Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain by Portia de Rossi (Atria, $25.99; ISBN 978-1-4391-7778-5). 350,000 copies.

The Brave by Nicholas Evans (Little, Brown, $26.99; ISBN 978-0-316-03378-7). 300,000 copies. One-day laydown.

Our Kind of Traitor: A Novel by John le Carré (Viking, $27.95; ISBN 978-0-670-02224-3). 300,000 copies.

Unlocked by Karen Kingsbury (Zondervan, $14.99 paper; ISBN 978-0-310-26695-2). 250,000 copies.

The Last Boy by Jane Leavy (Harper, $27.99; ISBN 978-0-06-088352-2). 200,000 copies. One-day laydown.

Djibouti by Elmore Leonard (Morrow, $29.99; ISBN 978-0-06-173517-2). 200,000 copies.

Playing The Game by Barbara Taylor Bradford (St. Martin’s, $27.99; ISBN 978-0-312-57808-4). 200,000 copies.

Late, Late at Night by Rick Springfield (Touchstone, $26; ISBN 978-1-4391-9115-6) 175,000 copies. One-day laydown.

Conversations with Myself by Nelson Mandela (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, $28; ISBN 978-0-374-12895-1). 150,000 copies.

In the Still of the Night: The Strange Death of Ronda Reynolds by Ann Rule (Free Press, $26.99; ISBN 978-1-4165-4460-9). 150,000 copies.

Oogy by Larry Levin (Grand Central, $19.99; ISBN 978-0-446-54631-7). 150,000 copies.

Nigella Kitchen: Recipes from the Heart of the Home by Nigella Lawson (Hyperion, $35; ISBN 978-1-4013-2395-0). 150,000 copies.

The Gun: The AK-47 and the Evolution of War by C.J. Chivers (Simon & Schuster, $28; ISBN 978-0-7432-7076-2). 125,000 copies.

The Match: Complete Strangers, a Miracle Face Transplant, Two Lives Transformed by Susan Whitman-Helfgot with William Novak (Simon & Schuster, $26; ISBN 978-1-4391-9548-2). 125,000 copies.

The Prostitutes’ Ball by Stephen J. Cannell (St. Martin’s, $23.99; ISBN 978-0-312-55730-0). 125,000 copies.

Bobby Flay’s Throwdown: More than 100 Recipes from Food Network's Ultimate Cooking Challenge by Bobby Flay, Stephanie Banyas, and Miriam Garron (Clarkson Potter, $27.50; ISBN 978-0-307-71916-4). 110,000 copies.

Travels in Siberia by Ian Frazier (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, $28; ISBN 978-0-374-27872-4). 100,000 copies.

The Governator by Ian Halperin (Morrow, $25.99; ISBN 978-0-06-199004-5). 100,000 copies.

Sleepwalk with Me: And Other Painfully True Stories by Mike Birbiglia (Simon & Schuster, $24; ISBN 978-1-4391-5799-2). 100,000 copies.

Hoda: How I Survived War Zones, Bad Hair, Cancer, and Kathie Lee by Hota Kotb (Simon & Schuster, $25; ISBN 978-1-4391-8948-1). 100,000 copies.

The Sleepwalkers by Paul Grossman (St. Martin’s, $24.99; ISBN 978-0-312-60190-4). 100,000 copies.

The New York Times Presents Smarter by Sunday: 52 Weekends of Essential Knowledge for the Curious Mind (St. Martin’s, $24.99; ISBN 978-0-312-57134-4). 100,000 copies.

The Onion Presents a Book of Jean’s Own: All New Wit, Wisdom, and Wackiness from The Onion's Beloved Humor Columnist by Jean Teasdale (St. Martin’s Griffin, $14.99 paper; ISBN 978-0-312-64268-6). 100,000 copies.

American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865–1900 by H.W. Brands (Doubleday, $35; ISBN 978-0-385-52333-2). 75,000 copies.

The Scorpion’s Tale: The Relentless Rise of Islamic Militants in Pakistan—And Why They Are Coming Our Way by Zahid Hussain (Free Press, $25; ISBN 978-1-4391-2025-5). 75,000 copies.

Churchill Defiant by Barbara Leaming (Harper, $26.99; ISBN 978-0-06-133758-1). 75,000 copies.

My Spiritual Journey by the Dalai Lama (HarperOne, $25.99; ISBN 978-0-06-196022-2). 75,000 copies.

American Freak Show: The Completely Fabricated Stories of Our New National Treasures by Willie Geist (Hyperion, $23.99; ISBN 978-1-4013-2394-3). 75,000 copies.

The Tenth Song by Naomi Ragen (St. Martin’s, $24.99; ISBN 978-0-312-57017-0). 75,000 copies.

Dear Mrs. Kennedy: A World Shares Its Grief by Jay Mulvaney and Paul De Angelis (St. Martin’s, $19.99; ISBN 978-0-312-38615-3). 75,000 copies.

Busy Body by M.C. Beaton (St. Martin’s/Minotaur, $24.99; ISBN 978-0-312-38701-3). 75,000 copies.

The Vertical Farm: Feeding Ourselves and the World in the 21st Century by Dr. Dickson Despommier (St. Martin’s/Thomas Dunne Books, $25.99; ISBN 978-0-312-61139-2). 75,000 copies.

Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family by Condoleezza Rice (Crown, $27; ISBN 978-0-307-58787-9). 60,000 copies.

Bad Science by Ben Goldacre (Faber and Faber, $15 paper; ISBN 978-0-86547-918-0). 50,000 copies.

Why the West Rules—for Now by Ian Morris (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, $35; ISBN 978-0-374-29002-3). 50,000 copies.

The Blessing of a B Minus: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Resilient Teenagers by Wendy Mogel, Ph.D. (Scribner, $24; ISBN 978-1-4165-4203-2). 50,000 copies.

How Wars End: Why We Always Fight the Last Battle by Gideon Rose (Simon & Schuster, $27; ISBN 978-1-4165-9053-8). 50,000 copies.

The Lost and Forgotten Languages of Shanghai by Ruiyan Xu (St. Martin’s Press, $24.99; ISBN 978-0-312-58654-6). 50,000 copies.

Harvest to Heat: Cooking with America's Best Chefs, Farmers, and Artisans by Darryl Estrine and Kelly Kochendorfer (Taunton, $40; ISBN 978-1-60085-254-1). 50,000 copies.

October 13

Moonlight Mile by Dennis Lehane (Morrow, $26.99; ISBN 978-0-06-183692-3). 500,000 copies. One-day laydown.

October 14

Overhaul: An Insider’s Account of the Obama Administration’s Emergency Rescue of the Auto Industry by Steven Rattner (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $27; ISBN 978-0-547-44321-8). 75,000 copies.

How to Read the Air by Dinaw Mengestu (Riverhead, $25.95; ISBN 978-1-59448-770-5). 50,000 copies.

October 18

Sandra Lee’s Best of Semi-Homemade by Sandra Lee (Wiley, $29.95; ISBN 978-0-470-87405-9). 200,000 copies.

The Essential New York Times Cookbook: Classic Recipes for a New Century by Amanda Hesser (Norton, $40; ISBN 978-0-393-06103-1). 100,000 copies.

October 19

In the Company of Others: A Father Tim Novel by Jan Karon (Viking, $27.95; ISBN 978-0-670-02212-0). 800,000 copies.

Chasing the Night by Iris Johansen (St. Martin’s, $27.99; ISBN 978-0-312-65119-0). 500,000 copies.

The Templar Salvation by Raymond Khoury (Dutton, $26.95; ISBN 978-0-525-95184-1). 250,000 copies. One-day laydown.

SuperFreakonomics, Illustrated Edition by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (Morrow, $40.99; ISBN 978-0-06-194122-1). 150,000 copies.

My Thoughts Be Bloody: The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin and John Wilkes Booth That Led to an American Tragedy by Nora Titone (Free Press, $30; ISBN 978-1-4165-8605-0). 125,000 copies.

Eighteen Acres: A Novel by Nicolle Wallace (Atria, $25; ISBN 978-1-4391-9482-9). 100,000 copies.

Generous Justice: How God’s Grace Makes Us Just by Timothy Keller (Dutton, $19.95; ISBN 978-0-525-95190-2). 100,000 copies. One-day laydown.

Against All Things Ending: The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant by Stephen R. Donaldson (Putnam, $29.95; ISBN 978-0-399-15678-6). 100,000 copies. One-day laydown.

Shock of Gray: The Aging of the World’s Population and How It Pits Young Against Old, Child Against Parent, Worker Against Boss, Company Against Rival, and Nation Against Nation by Ted C. Fishman (Scribner, $26.99; ISBN 978-1-4165-5102-7). 100,000 copies.

Palo Alto: Stories by James Franco (Scribner, $24; ISBN 978-1-4391-6314-6). 50,000 copies.

The Lost Peace: Leadership in a Time of Horror and Hope, 1945-1953 by Robert Dallek (Harper, $28.99; ISBN 978-0-06-162866-5). 75,000 copies.

Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787–1788 by Pauline Maier (Simon & Schuster, $30; ISBN 978-0-6848-6854-7). 75,000 copies.

The Pursuit of Happiness: A Novel by Douglas Kennedy (Atria, $16 paper; ISBN 978-1-4391-9912-1). 60,000 copies.

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, trans. by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (Pantheon Books, $30; ISBN 978-0-307-37769-2). 50,000 copies.

Lipstick Hustla by Allison Hobbs (S&S/Strebor, $15 paper; ISBN 978-1-59309-282-5). 50,000 copies.

Worth Dying For by Lee Child (Delacorte Press, $28; ISBN 978-0-385-34431-9).

October 21

The Wake of Forgiveness: A Novel by Bruce Machart (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26; ISBN 978-0-15-101443-9). 50,000 copies.

October 25

The Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America by Donald Stokes and Lillian Stokes (Little, Brown, $24.99 paper; ISBN 978-0-316-01050-4). 60,000 copies.

October 26

The Confession by John Grisham (Doubleday, $28.95; ISBN 978-0-385-52804-7). 2.8 million copies.

Life by Keith Richards with James Fox (Little, Brown, $29.99; ISBN 978-0-316-03438-8). 1,000,000 copies. One-day laydown.

Zero Regrets by Apolo Ohno (Atria, $26; ISBN 978-1-4516-0906-6). 350,000 copies.

Double Delicious! by Jessica Seinfeld (Morrow Cookbooks, $28.99; ISBN 978-0-06-165933-1). 350,000 copies. One-day laydown.

Going Home to Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961–1969 by David Eisenhower with Julie Nixon Eisenhower (Simon & Schuster, $28; ISBN 978-1-4391-9090-6). 250,000 copies. One-day laydown.

Side Jobs by Jim Butcher (Roc, $25.95; ISBN 978-0-451-46365-4). 200,000 copies.

The Great Penguin Rescue: 40,000 Penguins, a Devastating Oil Spill, and the Inspiring Story of the World's Largest Animal Rescue by Dyan DeNapoli (Free Press, $26; ISBN 978-1-4391-4817-4). 100,000 copies.

Harmony: A New Way of Looking at Our Worlds by His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales (Harper, $29.99; ISBN 978-0-06-173131-0). 75,000 copies.

The Peanuts Collection: Treasures from the World’s Most Beloved Comic Strip by Nat Gertler (Little, Brown, $35; ISBN 978-0-316-08610-3). 75,000 copies.

The Grace of God by Andy Stanley (Thomas Nelson, $21.99; ISBN 978-0-8499-4814-5). 75,000 copies

Franklin and Eleanor by Hazel Rowley (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, $27; ISBN 978-0-374-15857-6). 60,000 copies.

Dangerous to Know by Tasha Alexander (St. Martin’s/Minotaur Books, $24.99; ISBN 978-0-312-38379-4). 50,000 copies.

An Amish Christmas by Cynthia Keller (Ballantine Books, $16; ISBN 978-0-345-52378-5).

October 27

Pukka: The Pup After Merle by Ted Kerasote (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $18.95; ISBN 978-0-547-38608-9). 50,000 copies.

How Music Works: The Science and Psychology of Beautiful Sounds, from Beethoven to the Beatles and Beyond by John Powell (Little, Brown, $24.99; ISBN 978-0-316-09830-4). 50,000 copies.