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[NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERS] SOFTCOVER

FICTION

1. ATONEMENT

by Ian McEwan

Anchor

A chronicle of the disintegration of an English family's idyllic life.

2. THE KITE RUNNER

by Khaled Hosseini

Riverhead

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

3. THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH

by Ken Follet

New American Library

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

4. LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Vintage International

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

5. WATER FOR ELEPHANTS

by Sara Gruen

Algonquin

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

6. 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.

7. THE ROAD

by Cormac McCarthy

Vintage

A father and son travel in post-apocalypse America.

8. 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.

9. 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.

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. SHOPAHOLIC AND BABY

by Sophie Kinsella

Dial

Becky is pregnant, and the obstetrician turns out to be her husband's ex-girlfriend.

12. THE FRIDAY NIGHT KNITTING CLUB

by Kate Jacobs

Berkley

A group of women meet weekly at a New York City yarn shop.

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 INNOCENT MAN

by John Grisham

Delta

Grisham's first non-fiction book concerns a man wrongly sentenced to death.

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. CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR

by George Crile

Grove

A chronicle of a congressman's efforts in the 1980s to steer billions to the anti-Soviet side in Afghanistan.

6. THE AUDACITY OF HOPE

by Barack Obama

Three Rivers

The Illinois senator proposes that Americans move beyond their political divisions.

7. 90 MINUTES IN HEAVEN

by Don Piper with Cecil Murphey

Revell

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

8. THE OMNIVORE'S DILEMMA

by Michael Pollan

Penguin

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

9. SMOKE, MIRRORS, AND MURDER: AND OTHER TRUE CASES

by Ann Rule

Pocket

Tales of true crime.

10. THE GLASS CASTLE

by Jeannette Walls

Scribner

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

11. THE TIPPING POINT

by Malcolm Gladwell

Back Bay/Little, Brown

A study of social epidemics, otherwise known as fads.

12. BLINK

by Malcolm Gladwell

Back Bay/ Little Brown

The importance of instinct to the workings of the mind.

13. THE WORLD IS FLAT

by Thomas Friedman

Picador

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

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