Next month, personal accounts by two U.S. presidents, a Supreme Court Justice and an unmasked spy will arrive. But it remains to be seen if O.J. Simpson's “confession” will remain a bigger publishing story than candid comments from Ford and Carter, Clarence Thomas and Valerie Plame.

Saleswise, Stephen Colbert tramples Ann Coulter in the race to the top of the political heap (his first printing is 1.4 million copies; she begins with 600,000).

On the children's end, a new Olivia picture book should “help with Christmas,” as its title suggests. Star Wars gets its first-ever pop-up, complete with glowing light sabers, and actress Julianne Moore pens a picture book.

| OCTOBER 1 |My Grandfather's Son: A Memoir by Clarence Thomas (HarperCollins, $26.95). 250,000 copies.Exit Ghost by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin, $26). 200,000 copies.*The Cranium Ultimate Book of Fantastic Fun & Games (LB Kids, $19.99). 200,000 copies.*The Name of This Book Is Secret by Pseudonymous Bosch (Little, Brown, $16.99). 150,000 copies.*Igraine the Brave by Cornelia Funke (Scholastic/Chicken House, $16.99). 125,000 copies.The Air We Breathe by Andrea Barrett (Norton, $24.95). 75,000 copies.| OCTOBER 2 |
Be the Pack Leader: Use Cesar's Way to Transform Your Dog... and Your Life by Cesar Millan (Harmony, $25.95). 600,000 copies.
If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans by Ann Coulter (Crown Forum, $24.95). 600,000 copies.
*Olivia Helps with Christmas by Ian Falconer (Atheneum, $18.99). 500,000 copies.
Celebrity Detox (The Fame Game) by Rosie O'Donnell (Grand Central, $23.99). 400,000 copies.
* 1776: The Illustrated Edition by David McCullough (Simon & Schuster, $65). 350,000 copies.
Beyond the White House: Waging Peace, Fighting Disease, Building Hope by Jimmy Carter (Simon & Schuster, $26). 350,000 copies.
*Gossip Girl: It Had to Be You by Cecily von Ziegesar (Little, Brown/Poppy, $16.99). 300,000 copies.
*Santa's Reindeer by Rod Green (Atheneum, $16.99). 200,000 copies.
* The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943—1944 by Rick Atkinson (Holt, $35). 200,000 copies.
*Extras by Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse, $16.99). 200,000 copies.
Cook with Jamie: My Guide to Making You a Better Cook by Jamie Oliver (Hyperion, $37.50). 175,000 copies.
The Art of Simple Food: Notes, Lessons & Recipes from a Delicious Revolution by Alice Waters (Clarkson Potter, $35). 150,000 copies.
*The Red Queen's Daughter by Jacqueline Kolosov (Hyperion, $16.99). 125,000 copies.
*The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex (Hyperion, $16.99). 125,000 copies.
* The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America by Susan Faludi (Metropolitan, $26). 125,000 copies.
*Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy by Ally Carter (Hyperion, $16.99). 100,000 copies.
A Skating Life by Dorothy Hamill (Hyperion, $24.95). 100,000 copies.
The Lies About Money: Achieving Financial Security and True Wealth by Avoiding the Lies Others Tell Us—And the Lies We Tell Ourselves by Ric Edelman (Free Press, $28). 100,000 copies.
*Counting Christmas by Karen Katz (Little Simon, $7.99). 100,000 copies.
Thank You Power: Making the Science of Gratitude Work for You by Deborah Norville (Thomas Nelson, $19.99). 75,000 copies.
The Worst Thing I've Ever Done by Ursula Hegi (Touchstone, $25). 50,000 copies.
Life's a Campaign: What Politics Has Taught Me About Friendship, Rivalry, Reputation, and Success by Chris Matthews (Random, $24.95).
| OCTOBER 3 |
If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer (The Ron Goldman Foundation for Justice Authorized Version) with commentary by the Goldman Family (Beaufort Books, $24.95). 150,000 copies.
America in Space: NASA's First Fifty Years, published in collaboration NASA (Abrams, $50). 100,000 copies.
| OCTOBER 4 |
* Down River by John Hart (Minotaur, $24.95). 150,000 copies.
*Eulalia! by Brian Jacques (Philomel, $23.99). 100,000 copies.
The Bond: Three Young Men Learn to Forgive and Reconnect with Their Fathers by Drs. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins and Rameck Hunt with Margaret Bernstein (Riverhead, $24.95). 100,000 copies.
*The Kite Runner: Illustrated Edition by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $29.95). 40,000 copies.
Valley Boy: The Education of Tom Perkins by Tom Perkins (Gotham, $27.50).
| OCTOBER 9 |
* I Am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert (Grand Central, $25.99). 1.4 million copies.
Clapton: The Autobiography by Eric Clapton (Broadway, $26). 350,000 copies.
*Star Wars: A Pop-Up Guide to the Galaxy by Matthew Reinhart (Orchard, $32.99). 350,000 copies.
Mark's Story by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins (Putnam, $24.95). 300,000 copies.
The Gift by Richard Paul Evans (Simon & Schuster, $19.95). 300,000 copies.
*Dragonology: Field Guide to Dragons by Dr. Ernest Drake, edited by Dugald A. Steer, various illustrators (Candlewick, $24.99). 200,000 copies.
A Lifetime of Secrets: A PostSecret Book by Frank Warren (Morrow, $27.95). 200,000 copies.
*Great Joy by Kate DiCamillo, illus. by Bagram Ibatoulline (Candlewick, $16.99). 125,000 copies.
*The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible by A.J. Jacobs (Simon & Schuster, $25). 100,000 copies.
Fatal Revenant: The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant by Stephen R. Donaldson (Putnam, $27.95). 100,000 copies.
Heaven and Hell: My Life as an Eagle by Don Felder (Hyperion, $24.95). 100,000 copies.
Inside the Helmet: My Life as a Sunday Afternoon Warrior by Michael Strahan with Jay Glazer (Gotham, $26).
World Without End by Ken Follett (Dutton, $35).
| OCTOBER 10 |
*Blonde Faith by Walter Mosely (Little, Brown, $25.99). 125,000 copies.
| OCTOBER 15 |
Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life by Joel Osteen (Free Press, $25). 3 million copies.
The Conscience of a Liberal by Paul Krugman (Norton, $25.95). 150,000 copies.
| OCTOBER 16 |
The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold (Little, Brown, $24.99). 750,000 copies.
Think Big and Kick Ass... in Business and in Life by Donald J. Trump and Bill Zanker (Collins, $26.95). 500,000 copies.
Kids Are Americans, Too by Bill O'Reilly (Morrow, $24.95). 400,000 copies.
*Disney High School Musical: All Access (Disney Press, $19.99). 350,000 copies.
The Intellectual DevotionalAmerican History by David S. Kidder and Noah D. Oppenheim (Modern Times, $24). 250,000 copies.
*Slam by Nick Hornby (Putnam, $19.99). 250,000 copies.
*Freckleface Strawberry by Julianne Moore, illus. by LeUyen Pham (Bloomsbury, $16.95). 150,000 copies.
Slash by Slash and Saul Hudson (Harper Entertainment, $27.95). 150,000 copies.
Mosaic: Pieces of My Life So Far by Amy Grant (Doubleday/Flying Dolphin, $24.95). 125,000 copies.
*Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography by David Michaelis (HarperCollins, $34.95). 125,000 copies.
Bobby Flay's Mesa Grill Cookbook: Explosive Flavors from the Southwestern Kitchen by Bobby Flay (Clarkson Potter, $35). 100,000 copies.
Blue Christmas: Now with More Holiday Cheer (and Recipes Too!) by Mary Kay Andrews (HarperCollins, $14.95). 100,000 copies.
*I Love You More by Laura Duksta, illus. by Karen Keesler (Sourcebooks/Jabberwocky, $16.99). 100,000 copies.
The Phoenix Unchained by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory (Tor, $27.95). 100,000 copies.
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks (Knopf, $26). 40,000 copies.
Dirty Diplomacy: The Rough and Tumble Adventures of a Scotch-Drinking, Skirt-Chasing, Dictator-Busting and Thoroughly Unrepentant Ambassador Stuck on the Frontline of the War by Craig Murray (Scribner, $26). 25,000 copies.
Star Wars: Death Star by Michael Reaves and Steve Perry (Del Rey, $25.95).
| OCTOBER 18 |
Pandora's Daughter by Iris Johansen (St. Martin's, $25.95). 500,000 copies.
*How to Find Flower Fairies by Cicely Mary Barker (Frederick Warne, $19.99). 250,000 copies.
The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta (St. Martin's, $24.95). 200,000 copies.
Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain! Author Ignores Helpful Advice by Scott Adams (Portfolio, $24.95). 80,000 copies.
A Life Decoded: My Genome, My Life by J. Craig Venter (Viking, $25.95). 75,000 copies.
| OCTOBER 22 |
Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House by Valerie Plame Wilson (Simon & Schuster, $26). 400,000 copies.
| OCTOBER 23 |
Book of the Dead by Patricia Cornwell (Putnam, $26.95). 1.5 million copies.
Where Angels Go by Debbie Macomber (Mira, $16.95). 300,000 copies.
*Peter and the Secret of Rundoon by Ridley Pearson and Dave Barry (Disney Editions, $18.99). 250,000 copies.
Now and Then by Robert B. Parker (Putnam, $25.95). 250,000 copies.
*Follow the Reader: Dora's Enchanted Adventure; Hello, Dora!; Diego in Action!; Diego's Rescue Game; Thomas on Track; andGames with James , all by Harriet Murphy (Simon Scribbles, $24.99 each). 250,000 copies each.
*Extreme Dinosaurs by Robert Mash (Atheneum, $21.99). 200,000 copies.
*The Alphabet from A to Y: With Bonus Letter Z! by Steve Martin and Roz Chast (Doubleday/Flying Dolphin, $17.95). 200,000 copies.
Lyrics by Sting (Dial, $28). 150,000 copies.
The Ghost by Robert Harris (Simon & Schuster, $26). 150,000 copies.
*Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End Storybook and CD (Disney Press, $12.99). 150,000 copies.
Life: Selected Quotations by Paulo Coelho (HarperCollins, $16.95). 150,000 copies.
Basic Black: The Essential Guide for Getting Ahead at Work (and in Life) by Cathie Black (Crown Business, $24.95). 100,000 copies.
*George's Secret Key to the Universe by Stephen Hawking and Lucy Hawking (Simon & Schuster, $17.99). 100,000 copies.
The Jewish Americans: Three Centuries of Jewish Voices in America by Beth S. Wenger (Doubleday, $40). 75,000 copies.
A Personal Stand: Observations and Opinions from a Free-Thinking Redneck by Trace Adkins (Ballantine, $23.95).
| OCTOBER 24 |
I Live for This!: Baseball's Last True Believer by Bill Plaschke with Tommy Lasorda (Houghton Mifflin, $25). 150,000 copies.
| OCTOBER 29 |
Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full by Conrad Black (Public Affairs, $35).
| OCTOBER 30 |
*YOU: Staying Young; The Owner's Manual to Extending Your Warranty by Michael F. Roizen, M.D., and Mehmet C. Oz, M.D. (Free Press, $26). 1.25 million copies.
Amazing Grace by Danielle Steel (Delacorte, $27). 800,000 copies.
Home to Holly Springs by Jan Karon (Viking, $26.95). 750,000 copies.
Christmas with Paula Deen by Paula Deen (Simon & Schuster, $23). 550,000 copies.
Protect and Defend by Vince Flynn (Atria, $26.95). 500,000 copies.
The Christmas Promise by Donna VanLiere (St. Martin's, $14.95). 400,000 copies.
A Family Christmas by Caroline Kennedy (Hyperion, $26.95). 350,000 copies.
Everlasting by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss (Morrow, $24.95). 350,000 copies.
American Creation: Triumphs & Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic by Joseph J. Ellis (Knopf, $26.95). 325,000 copies.
The Onion: Our Dumb World: Atlas of the Planet Earth, 73rd Edition (Little, Brown, $27.99). 300,000 copies.
The Race by Richard North Patterson (Holt, $26). 300,000 copies.
A War of Gifts: An Ender Story by Orson Scott Card (Tor, $12.95). 200,000 copies.
Ronnie Wood: An Autobiography by Ronnie Wood (St. Martin's, $25.95). 200,000 copies.
The Star Wars Vault by Stephen Sansweet and Peter Vilmur (Harper Entertainment, $85). 200,000 copies.
No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach by Anthony Bourdain (Bloomsbury, $34.95). 150,000 copies.
Write It When I'm Gone: Remarkable Off-the-Record Conversationswith Gerald R. Ford by Thomas M. DeFrank (Putnam, $25.95). 150,000 copies.
*If You See a Fairy Ring by Susanna Lockheart (Barron's, $16.99). 100,000 copies.
Schott's Miscellany 2008: An Almanac by Ben Schott (Bloomsbury, $26.95). 75,000 copies.
The Quiet Girl by Peter Høeg (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $26). 75,000 copies.
Dreamsongs: Volume I by George R.R. Martin (Spectra, $27). 35,000 copies.
A Christmas Beginning by Anne Perry (Ballantine, $17.95).
All Through the Night: A Troubleshooter Christmas by Suzanne Brockmann (Ballantine, $16.95).

—With reporting by Raya Kuzyk and Diane Roback

* = PW starred review

* = Children's titles