1. Songs Without Words, Ann Packer
2. Flawless, Joshua Spanogle
3. A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
4. Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows, J. K. Rowling
5. The Street of a Thousand Blossoms, Gail Tsukiyama
6. The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Michael Chabon
7. Away, Amy Bloom
8. The Septembers of Shiraz, Dalia Sofer
9. Spook Country, William Gibson
10. Divisadero, Michael Ondaatje
Hardcover Nonfiction
1. Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World, Bill Clinton
2. The Israel Lobby & U.S. Foreign Policy, John J. Mearsheimer &
Stephen M. Walt
3. Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
4. The World Without Us, Alan Weisman
5. Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products, Mark Schapiro
6. The Dangerous Book for Boys, Conn Iggulden & Hal Iggulden
7. Little Heathens: Hard Times & High Spirits on an Iowa Farm, Mildred Kalish
8. Supercrunchers, Ian Ayres
9. Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire, Alex Von Tunzelmann
10. Mine's Bigger, David Kaplan
Paperback Fiction
1. The Emperor's Children, Claire Messud
2. Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen
3. The Space Between Us, Thrity Umrigar
4. Suite Francaise, Irene Nemirovsky
5. The Echo Maker, Richard Powers
6. One Good Turn, Kate Atkinson
7. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
8. The Inheritance of Loss, Lisa See
9. The Road, Cormac McCarthy
10. The Right Attitude to Rain, Alexander McCall Smith
Paperback Nonfiction
1. The Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollan
2. Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert
3. This is Your Brain on Music, Daniel J. Levitin
4. Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson
5. Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships, Daniel Goleman
6. The Female Brain, Louann Brizendine
7. Kitchen Playdates, Lauren Bank Deen
8. The Trouble with Physics, Lee Smolin
9. The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
10. This I Believe, Jay Allison
