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New York Times Bestsellers (softcover)

FICTION

1. WATER FOR ELEPHANTS

by Sara Gruen

Algonquin

A young man — and an elephant — save a Depression-era circus.

2. THE KITE RUNNER

by Khaled Hosseini

Riverhead

An Afghan-American returns to Kabul to learn how a childhood friend has fared.

3. ANGELS FALL

by Nora Roberts

Jove

A woman newly arrived in the Wyoming mountains claims to have witnessed a murder, but only one man believes her.

4. THE HUSBAND

by Dean Koontz

Bantam

A man whose wife has been kidnapped has 60 hours to come up with a huge ransom.

5. THE ROAD

by Cormac McCarthy

Vintage

A father and son travel in post-apocalypse America.

6. THE MEMORY KEEPER'S DAUGHTER

by Kim Edwards

Penguin

A doctor's decision to secretly send his newborn daughter, who has Down syndrome, to an institution haunts everyone involved.

7. BEACH ROAD

by James Patterson and Peter de Jonge

Warner Vision

A lawyer defends a high school basketball star suspected of murder.

8. SUITE FRANCAISE

by Irene Nemirovsky

Vintage

Two novellas, which came to light more than 50 years after the author's death at Auschwitz, about life in France under the Nazis.

9. THE MAN FROM STONE CREEK

by Linda Lael Miller

HQN

A tale of love and outlaws set in an Arizona border town in 1903.

10. BLACK ORDER

by James Rollins

Harper

Operatives of Sigma Force become entangled in a modern-day Nazi experiment.

11. SLEEPING WITH FEAR

by Kay Hooper

Bantam

A woman investigating occult activity wakes up covered in blood, with no memory of what happened.

12. THE 5TH HORSEMAN

by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro

Warner

Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club investigate unexplained

deaths at a San Francisco hospital.

NONFICTION

1. EAT, PRAY, LOVE

by Elizabeth Gilbert

Penguin Books

A writer's yearlong journey in search of self takes her to Italy, India and Indonesia.

2. THE GLASS CASTLE

by Jeannette Walls

Scribner

The author recalls a bizarre childhood during which she and her siblings were constantly moved.

3. BLINK

by Malcolm Gladwell

Back Bay

The author of The Tipping Point explores the importance of hunch and instinct to the workings of the mind.

4. 90 MINUTES IN HEAVEN

by Don Piper with Cecil

Murphey

Revell

A minister describes the otherworldly experience he had after a car accident.

5. THE FINAL MOVE BEYOND IRAQ

by Mike Evans

Frontline

The author, a political conservative, says America should act decisively in confronting radical Islam and restricting Iran's nuclear plans.

6. THREE CUPS OF TEA

by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

Penguin Books

A former mountain climber builds schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

7. THE TIPPING POINT

by Malcolm Gladwell

Back Bay/Little, Brown

A journalist's study of social epidemics, otherwise known as fads.

8. THE MEASURE OF A MAN

by Sidney Poitier

HarperSanFrancisco

The movie actor's spiritual autobiography.

9. NIGHT

by Elie Wiesel

Hill & Wang

A new translation of an account of the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, first published in English in 1960.

10. MAYFLOWER

by Nathaniel Philbrick

Penguin Books

How America began, from the author of In the Heart of the Sea.

11. THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING

by Joan Didion

Vintage

The author's attempt to come to terms with the death of her husband and the grave illness of their only daughter.

12. STUMBLING ON HAPPINESS

by Daniel Gilbert

Vintage

A Harvard professor explores why people can't predict what will make them happy.

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