Hardcover Fiction

1. The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming, Lemony Snicket

2. A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini

3. Gentlemen of the Road, Michael Chabon

4. World Without End, Ken Follett

5. War & Peace, Leo Tolstoy (translated by Richard Pevear

6. Street of a Thousand Blossoms, Gail Tsukiyama

7. Home to Holly Springs, Jan Karon

8. The Last Chicken in America, Ellen Litman

9. Time & Materials: Poems 1997-2005, Robert Hass

10. Out Stealing Horses, Per Petterson

Hardcover Nonfiction

1. The Daring Book for Girls, Miriam Peskowitz

2. Musicophilia: Tales of Music & the Brain, Oliver Sacks

3. The Dangerous Book for Boys, Conn Iggulden

4. The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, Jeffrey Toobin

5. Plato & a Platypus Walked into a Bar, Thomas Cathcart

6. I am America (& So Can You!), Stephen Colbert

7. Little Heathens, Hard Times, Mildred Kalish

8. Born Standing Up, Steve Martin

9. Historical Atlas of California, Derek Hayes

10.The Coldest Winter: America & the Korean War, David Halberstam

Paperback Fiction

1. Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen

2. The Gathering, Ann Enright

3. The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett

4. What is the What, Dave Eggers

5. The Mission Song, John Le Carre

6. Love Over Scotland, Alexander McCall Smith

7. Suite Francaise, Irene Nemirovsky

8. The Black Book, Orhan Pamuk

9. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, Kim Edwards

10. The Space Between Us, Thrity Umrigar

Paperback Nonfiction

1. 3 Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson

2. Zagat San Francisco Bay Area Restaurants 2008, Zagat Survey

3. This is Your Brain on Music, Daniel J. Levitin

4. The Female Brain, Louann Brizendine

5. The Life & Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, Bill Bryson

6. Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert

7. The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game, Michael Lewis

8. How to Raise a Jewish Dog, Ellis Weiner

9. The Darwin Awards 4: Intelligent Design, Wendy Northcutt & Christopher M. Kelly

10. Porn for Women, Cambridge Women’s Pornography Cooperative