Welcome back to Best of the Bestseller!

Continuing on our theme of fewer and fewer genres making the cut, this week only eight made the list. And it's worth noting if it weren't for Danielle Steel and Nora Robers pumping out another book, there would only be seven categories.

On a high note, however, this week welcomed a young adult novel to the mix. Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid is a cartoon story of Greg Heffley, an underweight seventh grader struggling to get by. He writes in his journal after striking a deal with his mother that allows him to get out of one chore a week. He is berated by his father, who constantly threatens to send him to military school to toughen him up, and picked on by his older brother on a daily basis. The first book became a bestseller last year, and the sequel seems to be following suit. The books are also available to read online at Funbrain.com. His website states that Kinney never intended the books to be put online, but couldn't resist the urge to reach millions of kids at Funbrain.com, and it seems it hasn't hurt his sales one bit. On an interesting sidenote, it's not just Americans connecting with Greg Heffley. Here's what Publishers Weekly had to say:

Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid isn't just a hit here in America. It's a hit overseas as well— so far rights have been sold in 32 countries. In Germany, Greg's Tagebuch: Von Idioten umzingelt! is in its third printing after four weeks. And Wimpy Kid is just coming out in Italy, Austria and Switzerland. Clearly the humor in Kinney's middle-grade novel travels well. And while the phrase "wimpy kid" might be hard to translate, sometimes the alternate versions provide their own humor. The Italian title translates as: Diary of an Incompetent. The German edition: Greg's Journal: I'm Surrounded by Idiots.

And now, for the numbers: