| Fiction | weeks on list |
| 1. | Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw by Jeff Kinney (Amulet: $12.95) Greg's dad enlists him in organized sports in order to toughen him up. | 7 |
| 2. | Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown: $22.99) The final book in the "Twilight" saga finds Bella choosing immortality. | 31 |
| 3. | Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown: $19.99) Bella must choose between her lover and a friend, between life and death. | 34 |
| 4. | The Associate by John Grisham (Doubleday : $27.95) Sinister forces use a law-school grad's dark secret to blackmail him into working as a spy at his new firm, putting his life in danger. | 5 |
| 5. | Promises in Death by J.D. Robb (Putnam Adult: $26.95) A cop killer is hunted down in New York City in 2060. | 1 |
| 6. | The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (Dial Press: $22) A writer corresponds with islanders after German occupation. | 31 |
| 7. | Drood by Dan Simmons (Little, Brown: $26.95) An imagining of Charles Dickens' last years and his obsession with the dark side of London. | 3 |
| 8. | Fool by Christopher Moore (William Morrow: $26.99) King Lear's jester and an apprentice set out to save the kingdom in this comedy of errors. | 3 |
| 9. | The Renegades by T. Jefferson Parker (Dutton: $26.95) A sheriff sets out to find the gunman who shot his new partner. | 3 |
| 10. | Little Bee by Chris Cleave (Simon & Schuster: $24) The lives of two married British journalists and a Nigerian teenager collide. | 1 |
| 11. | White Witch, Black Curse by Kim Harrison (Eos: $25.99) A bounty hunter and witch avenge the murder of her lover. | 1 |
| 12. | The Women by T.C. Boyle (Viking: $27.95) Frank Lloyd Wright's life as told through the experiences of the four women who loved him. | 4 |
| 13. | Heart and Soul by Maeve Binchy (Knopf: $26.95) A visiting doctor becomes entrenched in the lives of the staff at a community clinic in Dublin. | 2 |
| 14. | Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell (Putnam: $27.95) Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta travels to New York to examine a psychiatric patient at Bellevue. | 7 |
| 15. | All the Colors of Darkness by Peter Robinson (William Morrow: $25.99) The plot of "Othello" comes to life in the death of a local theater's costume designer. | 1 |
