1. "Ford County: Stories" by John Grisham (Doubleday)

2. "The Lost Symbol" by Dan Brown (Doubleday)

3. "Kindred in Death" by J.D. Robb (Putnam Adult)

4. "The Gathering Storm (Wheel of Time)" by Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson (TOR Books)

5. "True Blue" by David Baldacci (Grand Central)

6. "The Lacuna" by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper)

7. "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett (Putnam/Amy Einhorn)

8. "The Scarpetta Factor" by Patricia Cornwell (Putnam Adult)

9. "Pursuit of Honor: A Novel" by Vince Flynn (Atria)

10. "Last Night in Twisted River" by John Irving (Random House)

1. "Have a Little Faith: A True Story" by Mitch Albom (Hyperion)

2. "It's Your Time" by Joel Osteen (Free Press)

3. "SuperFreakonomics" by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner (William Morrow)

4. "Arguing With Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government" by Glenn Beck (Threshold Editions)

5. "What The Dog Saw: And Other Adventures" by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown)

6. "The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy" by Bill Simmons (Ballantine/ESPN)

7. "Outliers: The Story of Success" by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown and Co.)

8. "The Audacity to Win" by David Plouffe (Viking)

9. "The Sellout" by Charles Gasparino (HarperBusiness)

10. "When the Game Was Ours" by Larry Bird and Earvin "Magic" Johnson with Jackie MacMullan (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

-- Publishers Weekly

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