| 1 | Water for Elephants. Sara Gruen. Algonquin, $13.95 ISBN 978-1-5651-2560-5 | 1 | 22 |
| 2 | Eat, Pray, Love. Elizabeth Gilbert. Penguin, $15 ISBN 978-0-14-303841-2 | 2 | 33 |
| 3 | The Kite Runner. Khaled Hosseini. Riverhead, $14 ISBN 978-1-59448-000-3 | 3 | 153 |
| 4 | The Memory Keeper's Daughter. Kim Edwards. Penguin, $14 ISBN 978-0-14-303714-9 | 5 | 64 |
| 5 | Skinny Bitch. Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin. Running Press, $13.95 ISBN 978-0-7624-2493-1 | 4 | 7 |
| 6 | 90 Minutes in Heaven. Don Piper with Cecil Murphey. Revell, $12.99 ISBN 978-0-8007-5949-0 | 7 | 25 |
| 7 | The Emperor's Children. Claire Messud. Vintage, $14.95 ISBN 978-0-307-27666-7 | 6 | 11 |
| 8 | The Glass Castle. Jeannette Walls. Scribner, $14 ISBN 978-0-7432-4754-2 | 9 | 63 |
| 9 | The Alchemist. Paulo Coelho. Harper San Francisco, $13.95 ISBN 978-006-112241-5 | 8 | 56 |
| 10 | Into the Wild. Jon Krakauer. Anchor, $13.95 ISBN 978-0-307-38717-2 | 12 | 3 |
| 11 | The Looming Tower. Lawrence Wright. Vintage, $15.95 ISBN 978-1-4000-3084-2 | – | 1 |
| 12 | Middlesex. Jeffrey Eugenides. Picador, $15 ISBN 978-0-312-42773-3 | 11 | 15 |
| 13 | Dear John. Nicholas Sparks. Grand Central, $13.99 ISBN 978-0-446-69832-0 | 10 | 6 |
| 14 | Three Cups of Tea. Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin. Penguin, $15 ISBN 978-0-14-303825-2 | – | 3 |
| 15 | The World Is Flat. Thomas L. Friedman. Picador, $16 ISBN 978-0-312-42507-4 | 15 | 7 |
