Hardcover Fiction

1. A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini

2. On Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan

3. The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Michael Chabon

4. The Insufficiency of Maps, Nora Pierce

5. The Children of Hurin, J. R. R. Tolkien

6. Stalin's Ghost, Martin Cruz Smith

7. The Good Husband of Zebra Drive, Alexander McCall Smith

8. Bangkok Haunts, John Burdett

9. Sammy's House, Kristin Gore

10. The Blood of Flowers, Anita Amirrezvani

Hardcover Nonfiction

1. The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins,

2. God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, Christopher Hitchens

3. Little Heathens: Hard Times & High Spirits on an Iowa Farm, Mildred Kalish

4. The Dangerous Book for Boys, Conn Iggulden & Hal Iggulden

5. Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe's America, Andrew Ferguson

6. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, Barbara Kingsolver

7. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, Nassim Nicholas Taleb

8. The Cult of the Amateur, Andrew Keen

9. Mine's Bigger, David A. Kaplan, William Morrow & Co.,

10. The Assault on Reason, Al Gore

Paperback Fiction

1. Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen

2. The Emperor's Children, Claire Messud

3. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini

4. Snow Flower & the Secret Fan, Lisa See

5. The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai

6. The Road, Cormac McCarthy

7. Intuition, Allegra Goodman, Delacorte

8. The Memory Keeper's Daughter, Kim Edwards

9. The Whole World Over, Julia Glass

10. Blue Shoes & Happiness, Alexander McCall Smith

Paperback Nonfiction

1. Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert

2. Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson

3. The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls

4. Stumbling on Happiness, Daniel Gilbert

5. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, Malcolm Gladwell

6. The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion

7. 1000 Places to See Before You Die, Patricia Schultz

8. The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets, Eva Rice

9. Running in Circles, Kim Engelmann

10. The Worst Hard Time, Tim Egan