Hardcover
Fiction
1. Unaccustomed Earth
Jhumpa Lahiri, Knopf, $25, 9780307265739
2. The Plague of Doves
Louise Erdrich, Harper, $25.95, 9780060515126
3. The Miracle at Speedy Motors
Alexander McCall Smith, Pantheon, $22.95, 9780375424489
4. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Diaz, Riverhead, $24.95, 9781594489587
5. Red Bird
Mary Oliver, Beacon, $23, 9780807068922
6. Sundays at Tiffany's
James Patterson, Gabrielle Charbonnet, Little Brown, $24.99,
9780316014779
7. The Whole Truth
David Baldacci, Grand Central, $26.99, 9780446195973
8. Change of Heart
Jodi Picoult, Atria, $26.95, 9780743496742
9. Lush Life
Richard Price, FSG, $26, 9780374299255
10. The Girl With No Shadow
Joanne Harris, Morrow, $24.95, 9780061431623
11. A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini, Riverhead, $25.95, 9781594489501
12. So Brave, Young, and Handsome
Leif Enger, Atlantic Monthly, $24, 9780871139856
13. Olive Kitteridge
Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $25, 9781400062089
14. People of the Book
Geraldine Brooks, Viking, $25.95, 9780670018215
15. Hold Tight
Harlan Coben, Dutton, $26.95, 9780525950608
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Hardcover
Nonfiction
1. The Last Lecture
Randy Pausch, Hyperion, $21.95, 9781401323257
2. A Wolf at the Table
Augusten Burroughs, St. Martin's, $24.95, 9780312342029
3. In Defense of Food
Michael Pollan, Penguin Press, $21.95, 9781594201455
4. Armageddon in Retrospect
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Putnam, $24.95, 9780399155086
5. A Voyage Long and Strange
Tony Horwitz, Holt, $27.50, 9780805076035
6. Just Who Will You Be?
Maria Shriver, Hyperion, $14.95, 9781401323189
7. Girls Like Us
Sheila Weller, Atria, $27.95, 9780743491471
8. Home
Julie Andrews, Hyperion, $26.95, 9780786865659
9. Bonk
Mary Roach, Norton, $24.95, 9780393064643
10. Ladies of Liberty
Cokie Roberts, Morrow, $26.95, 9780060782344
11. A Remarkable Mother
Jimmy Carter, S&S, $22.95, 9781416562450
12. What Now?
Ann Patchett, Harper, $14.95, 9780061340659
13. Beautiful Boy
David Sheff, Houghton Mifflin, $24, 9780618683352
14. The Secret
Rhonda Byrne, Atria/Beyond Words, $23.95, 9781582701707
15. The Daring Book for Girls
Andrea Buchanan, Miriam Peskowitz, Collins, $24.95, 9780061472572
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Trade
Paperback Fiction
1. Loving Frank
Nancy Horan, Ballantine, $14, 9780345495006
2. Out Stealing Horses
Per Petterson, Picador, $14, 9780312427085
3. The Gathering
Anne Enright, Black Cat, $14, 9780802170392
4. Water for Elephants
Sara Gruen, Algonquin, $13.95, 9781565125605
5. The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Michael Chabon, Harper Perennial, $15.95, 9780007149834
6. Divisadero
Michael Ondaatje, Vintage, $13.95, 9780307279323
7. Nineteen Minutes
Jodi Picoult, Washington Square, $15, 9780743496735
8. The Friday Night Knitting Club
Kate Jacobs, Berkley, $14, 9780425219096
9. Peony in Love
Lisa See, Random House, $14, 9780812975222
10. The Double Bind
Chris Bohjalian, Vintage, $14.95, 9781400031665
11. The Tenderness of Wolves
Stef Penney, S&S, $15, 9781416571308
12. After Dark
Haruki Murakami, Vintage, $13.95, 9780307278739
13. The Road
Cormac McCarthy, Vintage, $14.95, 9780307387899
14. Chez Moi
Agnes Desarthe, Penguin Books, $14, 9780143113232
15. The Gravedigger's Daughter
Joyce Carol Oates, Harper Perennial, $15.95, 9780061236839
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Paperback Nonfiction
1. A New Earth
Eckhart Tolle, Plume, $14, 9780452289963
2. Three Cups of Tea
Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin, Penguin, $15, 9780143038252
3. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Barbara and Camille Kingsolver, Steven Hopp, Harper Perennial,
$14.95, 9780060852566
4. Eat, Pray, Love
Elizabeth Gilbert, Penguin, $15, 9780143038412
5. The Omnivore's Dilemma
Michael Pollan, Penguin, $16, 9780143038580
6. The Power of Now
Eckhart Tolle, New World, $14, 9781577314806
7. Dreams From My Father
Barack Obama, Three Rivers, $14.95, 9781400082773
8. Infidel
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Free Press, $15, 9780743289696
9. The Audacity of Hope
Barack Obama, Three Rivers, $14.95, 9780307237705
10. I Feel Bad About My Neck
Nora Ephron, Vintage, $12.95, 9780307276827
11. Without a Map
Meredith Hall, Beacon, $14, 9780807072745
12. Marley & Me
John Grogan, Harper, $13.95, 9780060817091
13. Little Heathens
Mildred Armstrong Kalish, Bantam, $12, 9780553384246
14. Merle's Door
Ted Kerasote, Harvest, $15, 9780156034500
15. Deep Economy
Bill McKibben, Holt, $14, 9780805087222
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Mass
Market
1. Suffer the Little Children
Donna Leon, Penguin, $7.99, 9780143113614
2. The Woods
Harlan Coben, Signet, $9.99, 9780451221957
3. Invisible Prey
John Sandford, Berkley, $9.99, 9780425221150
4. Slipknot
Linda Greenlaw, Hyperion, $6.99, 9780786891238
5. High Profile
Robert B. Parker, Berkley, $9.99, 9780425206096
6. The Pillars of the Earth
Ken Follett, Signet, $7.99, 9780451166890
7. Simple Genius
David Baldacci, Grand Central, $9.99, 9780446618731
8. Bad Luck and Trouble
Lee Child, Dell, $7.99, 9780440243663
9. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, 4th Edition
Merriam-Webster (Eds.), Merriam-Webster, $7.50, 9780877799290
10. Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Betrayal
Eric Van Lustbader, Vision, $9.99, 9780446618809
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Children's
Fiction & Illustrated
1. The Penderwicks on Gardam Street
Jeanne Birdsall, Knopf, $15.99, 9780375840906
2. Outcast (Warriors: Power of Three, Book 3)
Erin Hunter, Harper, $16.99, 9780060892081
3. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
Jeff Kinney, Amulet, $12.95, 9780810994737
4. Lock and Key
Sarah Dessen, Viking, $18.99, 9780670010882
5. Fancy Nancy's Favorite Fancy Words
Jane O'Connor, Robin Preiss Glasser (Illus.), Harper, $12.99,
9780061549236
6. Twilight
Stephenie Meyer, Little Brown, $10.99, 9780316015844
7. Gallop!
Rufus Butler Seder, Workman, $12.95, 9780761147633
8. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Amulet, $12.95, 9780810993136
9. Dark Day in the Deep Sea (Magic Tree House #39)
Mary Pope Osborne, Salvatore Murdocca (Illus.), Random House,
$11.99, 9780375837319
10. Oh, the Places You'll Go!
Dr. Seuss, Random House, $17.99, 9780679805274
11. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $8.99,
9780694003617
12. Alphabet
Matthew Van Fleet, S&S, $19.99, 9781416955658
13. Once Upon a Time in the North
Philip Pullman, Knopf, $12.99, 9780375845109
14. Make Way for Ducklings
Robert McCloskey, Puffin, $7.99, 9780140564341
15. Queste (Septimus Heap Book 4)
Angie Sage, Katherine Tegen, $17.99, 9780060882075
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