Bestsellers
| Fiction | weeks on list | |
| 1. | The Help by Kathryn Stockett (Putnam: $24.95) The lives of a maid, a cook and a college graduate become intertwined as they change a Mississippi town. | 33 |
| 2. | The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson (Knopf: $25.95) A hacker implicated in two murders must revisit her past to prove her innocence. | 21 |
| 3. | Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (Henry Holt: $27) The rise of Henry VIII’s advisor Thomas Cromwell. | 11 |
| 4. | Noah’s Compass by Anne Tyler (Knopf: $25.95) After being attacked, an unambitious, unemployed teacher loses his memory and embraces the exuberance of a younger woman. | 1 |
| 5. | The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb (W.W. Norton & Co.: $24.95) Graphic depictions from all 50 chapters of the first book of the Bible. | 7 |
| 6. | Iron River by T. Jefferson Parker (Dutton : $26.95) ATF agents patrolling the flow of illegal guns into the U.S. brace for vengeance from the violent Gulf Cartel. | 1 |
| 7. | The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown (Doubleday: $25.99) Harvard professor Robert Langdon uses his symbology skills to find a missing Freemason in Washington, D.C. | 18 |
| 8. | Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days by Jeff Kinney (Amulet: $13.95) Greg desires to spend summer vacation indoors despite his mother’s wishes for outdoor family fun. | 14 |
| 9. | Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown: $19.99) Bella must choose between her lover and a friend, between life and death. | 72 |
| 10. | Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro (Knopf: $25.95) The short story master explores women and their relationships in 10 new stories. | 8 |
| Nonfiction | ||
| 1. | Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert (Viking: $26.95) The author tackles her fears of marriage by delving into the history and background of the institution. | 1 |
| 2. | Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown: $27.99) An exploration of the background of high achievers. | 56 |
| 3. | Have a Little Faith by Mitch Albom (Hyperion: $23.99) Albom’s observations of a rabbi and a pastor on an eight-year journey of faith. | 16 |
| 4. | What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown: $27.99) A collection of the author’s writings of everyday and extraordinary people. | 12 |
| 5. | Game Change by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin (Harper: $27.99) Two political observers/insiders explain how the drama of the U.S. presidential campaign of 2008 unfolded. | 1 |
| 6. | Too Big to Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin (Viking: $32.95) A behind-the-scenes account of the players in America’s financial market crisis. | 6 |
| 7. | Star by Peter Biskind (Simon & Schuster: $30) An intimate biography of Hollywood’s leading ladies’ man, Warren Beatty. | 1 |
| 8. | The Fifth Agreement by Don Miguel Ruiz & Don Jose Ruiz (Amber-Allen: $19.95) How to recover your authentic self. | 1 |
| 9. | True Compass by Edward Kennedy (Twelve: $35) The memoirs of the late U.S. senator from Massachusetts. | 10 |
| 10. | Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man by Steve Harvey (Amistad: $23.99) The talk-show host lets women inside the mind-set of a man. | 35 |
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