| 1 | Eat, Pray, Love. Elizabeth Gilbert. Penguin, $15 ISBN 978-0-14-303841-2 | 1 | 36 |
| 2 | Into the Wild. Jon Krakauer. Anchor, $13.95 ISBN 978-0-307-38717-2 | 2 | 6 |
| 3 | Love in the Time of Cholera. Gabriel García Márquez. Vintage, $14.95 ISBN 978-0-307-38973-2 | – | 1 |
| 4 | Water for Elephants. Sara Gruen. Algonquin, $13.95 ISBN 978-1-5651-2560-5 | 3 | 25 |
| 5 | The Kite Runner. Khaled Hosseini. Riverhead, $14 ISBN 978-1-59448-000-3 | 5 | 156 |
| 6 | Middlesex. Jeffrey Eugenides. Picador, $15 ISBN 978-0-312-42773-3 | 4 | 18 |
| 7 | Skinny Bitch. Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin. Running Press, $13.95 ISBN 978-0-7624-2493-1 | 6 | 10 |
| 8 | The Memory Keeper’s Daughter. Kim Edwards. Penguin, $14 ISBN 978-0-14-303714-9 | 7 | 67 |
| 9 | The Glass Castle. Jeannette Walls. Scribner, $14 ISBN 978-0-7432-4754-2 | 9 | 66 |
| 10 | 90 Minutes in Heaven. Don Piper with Cecil Murphey. Revell, $12.99 ISBN 978-0-8007-5949-0 | 8 | 28 |
| 11 | The Emperor’s Children. Claire Messud. Vintage, $14.95 ISBN 978-0-307-276666-7 | 10 | 14 |
| 12 | Three Cups of Tea. Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin. Penguin, $15 ISBN 978-0-14-303825-2 | 11 | 6 |
| 13 | Suite Française. Irène Némirovsky. Vintage, $14.95 ISBN 978-1-4000-9627-5 | 14 | 23 |
| 14 | The Alchemist. Paulo Coelho. Harper One, $13.95 ISBN 978-0-06-112241-5 | 13 | 59 |
| 15 | Thunderstruck. Erik Larson. Three Rivers Press, $14.95 ISBN 978-1-4000-8067-0 | – | 1 |
