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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERS

FICTION

1. SAFE HARBOR by Christine Feehan Jove A supermodel is attacked, and a sheriff who desires her vows to capture the assailant. Part five of the Drake Sisters series.

2. WATER FOR ELEPHANTS

by Sara Gruen Algonquin A young man - and an elephant - save a Depression-era circus.

3. THE KITE RUNNER

by Khaled Hosseini Riverhead An Afghan-American returns to Kabul to learn how a childhood friend has fared.

4. TWELVE SHARP

by Janet Evanovich St Martin's The bounty hunter Stephanie Plum must find a killer and a rescue a kidnapped child.

5. THE SECRET DIARIES OF MISS MIRANDA CHEEVER

by Julia Quinn Avon A woman who, as a young girl, fell for a count now hopes to claim him as her own.

6. THE ROAD

by Cormac McCarthy

Vintage A father and son travel in post-apocalypse America.

7. COUNTRY BRIDGES

by Debbie Macomber Mira Two novels in one book about women engaged to the wrong men.

8. MIDDLESEX

by Jeffrey Eugenides Picador The narrator - who, at 14, discovered she was a hermaphrodite - tells a story about three generations of Greek-Americans.

9. 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.

10. LISEY'S STORY

by Stephen King Pocket A widow struggles with grief after the death of her husband, a famous novelist.

11. THE HUSBAND

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

12. BEACH ROAD

by James Patterson and Peter de Jonge Warner Vision A lawyer defends a high school basketball star suspected of murder.

13. THE ALCHEMIST

by Paulo Coelho HarperSanFrancisco A Spanish shepherd boy travels to Egypt in search of treasure.

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. THREE CUPS OF TEA

by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin Penguin Books A former mountain climber builds schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

5. 90 MINUTES IN HEAVEN

by Don Piper with Cecil Murphey Revell A minister describes the otherworldly experience he had after a car accident.

6. 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.

7. THE TIPPING POINT

by Malcolm Gladwell Back Bay/Little, Brown A journalist's study of social epidemics, also known as fads.

8. MAYFLOWER

by Nathaniel Philbrick Penguin Books How America began, from the author of In the Heart of the Sea.

9. THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING

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

10. THE MEASURE OF A MAN

by Sidney Poitier HarperSanFrancisco The movie actor's spiritual autobiography.

11. STUMBLING ON HAPPINESS

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

12. POSSIBLE SIDE EFFECTS

by Augusten Burroughs Picador Autobiographical essays from the author of Running With Scissors.

13. MOUNTAINS BEYOND MOUNTAINS

by Tracy Kidder Random House A portrait of Paul Farmer, an expert on infectious diseases who works with the Haitian poor.
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