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[NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERS]

FICTION

1. LOVE IN THE TIME OF

CHOLERA

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Vintage International

A Colombian poet's love for a woman is tested.

2. THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH

by Ken Follet

New American Library

Murder, arson and lust surround the building of a 12th- century cathedral.

3. WATER FOR ELEPHANTS

by Sara Gruen

Algonquin

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

4. THE KITE RUNNER

by Khaled Hosseini

Riverhead

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

5. HALO: CONTACT HARVEST

by Joseph Staten

Tom Doherty Associates

A squad of marines and militia trainees is called to save a farming colony threatened by an aggressive alien empire.

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. NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN

by Cormac McCarthy

Vintage

Mayhem ensues in this reissued novel after a West Texas man stumbles upon US$2 million in drug money - and decides to keep it.

8. THE ROAD

by Cormac McCarthy

Vintage

A father and son travel in post-apocalypse America.

9. THE THIRTEENTH TALE

by Diane Setterfield

Washington Square

A biographer struggles to discover the truth about an aging writer who has mythologized her past.

10. THE ALCHEMIST

by Paulo Coelho

HarperSanFrancisco

A tale about the lessons a Spanish shepherd boy learns during his travels to Egypt in search of treasure.

11. I AM LEGEND

by Richard Matheson

Tor/Tom Doherty

In this reissued horror novel, plague survivors, turned into vampires, seek to destroy the one man who appears immune to the disease.

12. SUITE FRANCAISE

by Irene Nemirovsky

Vintage

Two novellas, which came to light more than 50 years after the author's death at Auschwitz.

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. INTO THE WILD

by Jon Krakauer

Anchor

A man's obsession with the wilderness ends in tragedy.

3. THREE CUPS OF TEA

by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

Penguin Books

A former climber builds schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

4. 90 MINUTES IN HEAVEN

by Don Piper with Cecil Murphey

Revell

A minister on the otherworldly experience he had after an accident.

5. THE GLASS CASTLE

by Jeannette Walls

Scribner

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

6. TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE

by Mitch Albom

Broadway

The author tells of his visits to his old college mentor.

7. THE OMNIVORE'S DILEMMA

by Michael Pollan

Penguin

Tracking dinner from the soil to the plate, a journalist juggles appetite and conscience.

8. THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE THUNDERBOLT KID

by Bill Bryson

Broadway

A memoir of growing up in 1950s Des Moines.

9. THE WORLD IS FLAT

by Thomas L. Friedman

Picador

An updated edition of the columnist's analysis of 21st-century economics and foreign policy.

10. THE TIPPING POINT

by Malcolm Gladwell

Back Bay/Little, Brown

A study of social epidemics, otherwise known as fads.

11. BLINK

by Malcolm Gladwell

Back Bay/Little Brown

The importance of instinct to the workings of the mind.

12. THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON

MUSIC

by Daniel J. Levitin

Plume

A rocker-turned-neuroscientist on the connection between music and human nature.

13. I HOPE THEY SERVE BEER IN HELL

by Tucker Max

Citadel

Reflections of a self-absorbed,

drunken womanizer.
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