Hardcover Fiction

1. A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini

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

3. T is for Trespass, Sue Grafton

4. World Without End, Ken Follett

5. The Street of a Thousand Blossoms, Gail Tsukiyama

6. Tree of Smoke, Denis Johnson

7. Gentlemen of the Road, Michael Chabon

8. Bridge of Sighs, Richard Russo

9. The Yiddish Policeman’s Union, Michael Chabon

10. Out Stealing Horses, Per Petterson

Hardcover Nonfiction

1. Musicophilia, Oliver Sacks

2. The Art of Simple Food, Alice Waters

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

4. Little Heathens, Hard Time, Mildred Kalish

5. Our Dumb World: The Onion’s Atlas of the Planet Earth, Mike DiCenzo et al

6. Historical Atlas of California, Derek Hayes

7. The Daring Book for Girls, Miriam Peskowitz

8. The Dangerous Book for Boys, Conn Iggulden

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

10. Shakespeare, Bill Bryson, Harper Collins

Paperback Fiction

1. Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen

2. Atonement, Ian McEwan

3. The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett

4. The Space Between Us, Thrity Umrigar

5. The Gathering, Ann Enright

6. Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

7. The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai

8. Suite Francaise, Irene Nemirovsky

9. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini

10. The Mission Song, John Le Carre

Paperback Nonfiction

1. 3 Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson

2. Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert

3. Zagat San Francisco Bay Area 2008, Zagat Surveys

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

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

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

7. The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollan

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

9. The Female Brain, Louann Brizendine

10. How to Raise a Jewish Dog, Ellis Weiner