Amazon's Top Selling Books This Week: "Hot, Flat And Crowded: Why We Need A Green Revolution-And How It Can Renew America" & "Brisingr"

September 8, 2008 11:12 a.m. EST

New York, NY (CNS) - A new book tops the Amazon's Best Seller list this week. Thomas Freidman's Hot, Flat And Crowded: Why We Need A Green Revolution-And How It Can Renew America lets readers contemplate some of the biggest challenges we face today: the global environmental crisis and America's loss of focus and national purpose since 9/11.

Brisingr by Christopher Paolini, Book 3 in the Inheritance series, held the No. 2 spot on the list. Readers can continue to follow the story of magic and dragons as Eragon makes choices that lead him across the empire and beyond.

Book 1 of Meyer's Twilight series, Twilight, continues to stay at No. 3 on the list, allowing readers to start from the beginning in her series that introduces Bella and Edward and their very complicated love story.

Breaking Dawn dropped to No. 4 this week. The book is the fourth in Meyer's Twilight Saga series, once again following the love story of the mortal Bella and her love, Edward, who happens to be a vampire.

Meyer's book Eclipse dropped to No. 5. The book is the third in the series continues the story of the Bella, who is forced to choose not only between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob, but also faces a choice between life and death.

Here are Amazon's Top Sellers for the last week in August:

1) Hot, Flat And Crowded: Why We Need A Green Revolution-And How It Can Renew America - Thomas Friedman 2) Brisingr (Inheritance, Book 3) - Christopher Paolini 3) Twilight (The Twilight Saga, Book 1) - Stephenie Meyer 4) Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, Book 4) - Stephenie Meyer 5) Eclipse (The Twilight Saga, Book 3) - Stephenie Meyer 6) The Shack - William P. Young 7) The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008 - Bob Woodward 8) The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch 9) New Moon (The Twilight Saga, Book 2) - Stephenie Meyer 10) Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression, Obsessiveness, Anger and Impulsiveness -- Daniel G. Amen