Hardcover Fiction

1. The Da Vinci Code

Dan Brown

2. The Namesake

Jhumpa Lahiri

3. The Amateur Marriage

Anne Tyler

4. Absolute Friends

John LeCarre

5. Five People You Meet in Heaven

Mitch Albom

6. New Spring

Robert Jordan

7. The Lady and the Unicorn

Tracy Chevalier

8. The Last Juror

John Grisham

9. Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Mark Haddon

10. On the Blue Shore of Silence

Pablo Neruda

11. Pompeii

Robert Harris

12. Birth of Venus

Sarah Dunant

Hardcover Non-fiction

1. American Dynasty

Kevin Phillips

2. The Fabric of the Cosmos

Brian Greene

3. The South Beach Diet

Arthur Agatston, Md.

4. The Working Poor

David Shipler

5. Price of Loyalty

Ron Suskind

6. Mountains Beyond Mountains

Tracy Kidder

7. America Behind the Color Line

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

8. The Case for Israel

Alan Dershowitz

9. Hegemony or Survival

Noam Chomsky

10. Washington’s Crossing

David Hackett Fischer

11. The Anatomy of Hope

Jerome Groopman

12. The Trouble With Islam

Irshad Manji