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[NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERS] Softcover

FICTION

1. THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH

by Ken Follet

New American Library

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

2. LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Vintage International

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

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. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. THE ROAD

by Cormac McCarthy

Vintage

A father and son travel in post-apocalypse America.

9. 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.

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. THE THIRTEENTH TALE

by Diane Setterfield

Washington Square

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

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. THE INNOCENT MAN

by John Grisham

Delta

Grisham's first nonfiction book concerns a man wrongly sentenced to death.

2. EAT, PRAY, LOVE

by Elizabeth Gilbert

Penguin Books

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

3. THREE CUPS OF TEA

by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

Penguin Books

A former climber builds schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

4. INTO THE WILD

by Jon Krakauer

Anchor

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

5. 90 MINUTES IN HEAVEN

by Don Piper with Cecil

Murphey

Revell

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

6. THE GLASS CASTLE

by Jeannette Walls

Scribner

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

7. THE OMNIVORE'S DILEMMA

by Michael Pollan

Penguin

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

8. TOO LATE TO SAY GOODBYE

by Ann Rule

Pocket

A tale of jealous rage emerges in the inquiry into the apparent suicide of a dentist's wife.

9. TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE

by Mitch Albom

Broadway

The author tells of his visits to his old college mentor, who is on his deathbed.

10. THE END OF AMERICA

by Naomi Wolf

Chelsea Green

A call for the public to act as "rebels and patriots" to preserve democracy and civil liberties.

11. THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE THUNDERBOLT KID

by Bill Bryson

Broadway

A memoir of growing up in 1950s Des Moines.

12. THE WORLD IS FLAT

by Thomas L. Friedman

Picador

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

13. THE TIPPING POINT

by Malcolm Gladwell

Back Bay/Little, Brown

A study of social epidemics, otherwise known as fads.
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