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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. ATONEMENT

by Ian McEwan

Anchor

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

3. THE KITE RUNNER

by Khaled Hosseini

Riverhead

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

4. WATER FOR ELEPHANTS

by Sara Gruen

Algonquin

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

5. THE 6TH TARGET

by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro

Grand Central

Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club probe the disappearance of several children in San Francisco.

6. THE FRIDAY NIGHT KNITTING CLUB

by Kate Jacobs

Berkley

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

7. LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Vintage International

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

8. THE ROAD

by Cormac McCarthy

Vintage

A father and son travel in post-apocalypse America.

9. BODY SURFING

by Anita Shreve

Back Bay

A woman takes a job as a tutor and becomes involved in a family's tensions and rivalries.

10. 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.

11. THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL

by Philippa Gregory

Touchstone

A tale of courtly intrigue starring King Henry VIII and Mary and Anne Boleyn.

12. THE ALCHEMIST

by Paulo Coelho

HarperSanFrancisco

A tale about the lessons a shepherd boy learns during his travels to Egypt.

13. 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.

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. THREE CUPS OF TEA

by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

Penguin Books

A former climber builds schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

3. THE GIFT OF FEAR

by Gavin de Becker

Delta

Intuitive signals that can protect us from becoming the victims of violence.

4. THE INNOCENT MAN

by John Grisham

Delta

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

5. THE AUDACITY OF HOPE

by Barack Obama

Three Rivers

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

6. INTO THE WILD

by Jon Krakauer

Anchor

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

7. DREAMS FROM MY FATHER

by Barack Obama

Three Rivers

The senator on life as the son of a black African father and a white American mother.

8. THE GLASS CASTLE

by Jeannette Walls

Scribner

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

9. 90 MINUTES IN HEAVEN

by Don Piper with Cecil Murphey

Revell

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

10. THE OMNIVORE'S DILEMMA

by Michael Pollan

Penguin

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

11. CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR

by George Crile

Grove

A chronicle, by a veteran producer for 60 Minutes, of a congressman's efforts in the 1980s to steer billions of US dollars to the anti-Soviet side in Afghanistan.

12. THE GOD DELUSION

by Richard Dawkins

Mariner

An Oxford scientist asserts that belief in God is irrational.

13. THE TIPPING POINT

by Malcolm Gladwell

Back Bay/Little, Brown

A study of social epidemics, otherwise known as fads.
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