| 1 | Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man. Steve Harvey. Amistad, $23.99 ISBN 978-0-06-172897-6 | 1 | 7 |
| 2 | Outliers. Malcolm Gladwell. Little, Brown, $27.99 ISBN 978-0-316-01792-3 | 2 | 16 |
| 3 | The Yankee Years. Joe Torre & Tom Verducci. Doubleday, $26.95 ISBN 978-0-385-52740-8 | 3 | 6 |
| 4 | House of Cards. William D. Cohan. Doubleday, $27.95 ISBN 978-0-385-52826-9 | – | 1 |
| 5 | The Last Lecture. Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow. Hyperion, $21.95 ISBN 978-1-4013-2325-7 | 4 | 48 |
| 6 | The Secret. Rhonda Byrne. Atria/Beyond Words, $23.95 ISBN 978-158270-170-7 | 6 | 107 |
| 7 | Dewey. Vicki Myron with Bret Witter. Grand Central, $19.99 ISBN 978-0-446-40741-0 | 5 | 24 |
| 8 | Peaks and Valleys. Spencer Johnson, M.D. Atria, $19.95 ISBN 978-1-4391-0325-9 | – | 1 |
| 9 | Flat Belly Diet. Liz Vaccariello and Cynthia Sass. Rodale Press, $25.95 ISBN 978-1-5948-6851-1 | 7 | 16 |
| 10 | The Lost City of Z. David Grann. Doubleday, $27.50 ISBN 978-0-385-51353-1 | 9 | 3 |
| 11 | Out of Captivity. Marc Gonsalves et al. Morrow, $26.99 ISBN 978-0-06-176952-8 | 8 | 3 |
| 12 | The Great Depression Ahead. Harry S. Dent Jr. Free Press, $27 ISBN 978-1-416-58898-6 | 15 | 3 |
| 13 | Uncommon. Tony Dungy with Nathan Whitaker. Tyndale House, $24.99 ISBN 978-1-4143-2681-8 | 10 | 7 |
| 14 | A Lion Called Christian. Anthony Bourke & John Rendall. Broadway, $21.95 ISBN 978-0-7679-3230-1 | – | 1 |
| 15 | A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity. Bill O'Reilly. Broadway, $26 ISBN 978-0-767-92882-3 | 13 | 15 |