Key: F-Fiction; NF-Nonfiction; H-Hardcover; P-Paperback
1. “Twilight,” by Stephenie Meyer (F-P)
2. “The Tales of Beedle the Bard,” by J.K. Rowling (F-H)
3. “New Moon,” by Stephenie Meyer (F-P)
4. “Eclipse,” by Stephenie Meyer(F-H)
5. “Breaking Dawn,” by Stephenie Meyer (F-H)
6. “The Shack,” by William P. Young (F-P)
7. “Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog,” by John Grogan (NF-P)
8. “The Last Lecture,” by Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow (NF-H)
9. “The Appeal,” by John Grisham (F-P)
10. “The Christmas Sweater,” by Glenn Beck (F-H)
11. “Outliers: The Story of Success,” by Malcolm Gladwell (NF-H)
12. “Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World,” by Vicki Myron and Brett Witter (NF-H)
13. “Cross Country” by James Patterson (Little, Brown) (F-H)
14. “Scarpetta” by Patricia Cornwell (Putnam) (F-H)
15. “The Purpose of Christmas” by Rick Warren (Howard Books) (NF-H)
16. “American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House” by Jon Meacham (Random House) (NF-H)
17. “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream” by Barack Obama (Three Rivers Press)(NF-P)
18. “The Pagan Stone” by Nora Roberts (Jove) (F-P)
19. “The Story Of Edgar Sawtelle” by David Wroblewski (Ecco) (F-H)
20. “Guinness: World Records 2009” by Guinness World Records (Guinness) (NF-H)
21. “Dreams from My Father” by Barack Obama (Three Rivers Press) (NF-P)
22. “The Host” by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown) (F-H)
23. “Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics: Fabulous Flavor from Simple Ingredients” by Ina Garten (Clarkson Potter) (NF-H)
24. “Brisingr” by Christopher Paolini (Knopf Books for Young Readers)(F-H)
25. “Just After Sunset: Stories” by Stephen King (Scribner) (F-H)
26. “A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity” by Bill O’Reilly (Broadway) (NF-H)
27. “The Lucky One” by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing) (F-H)
28. “The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread” by Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick) (F-P)
29. “Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln” by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Simon & Schuster) (NF-P)
30. “Too Fat To Fish” by Artie Lange and Anthony Bozza (Spiegel & Grau) (NF-H)
31. “Multiple Blessings: Surviving to Thriving with Twins and Sextuplets” by Jon and Kate Gosselin, Beth Carson (Zondervan) (NF-H)
32. “Three Cups Of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace … One School at a Time” by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (Penguin) (NF-P)
33. “A Thousand Splendid Suns” by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead Trade) (F-P)
34. “Arctic Drift” by Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler (Putnam Adult) (F-H)
35. “Change of Heart” by Jodi Picoult (Washington Square Press) (F-P)
36. “T is for Trespass” by Sue Grafton (Berkley) (F-P)
37. “The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2009” by World Almanac Books, edited by C. Alan Joyce (World Almanac) (NF-P)
38. “Burning Up: On Tour with the Jonas Brothers” by Kevin, Joe and Nick Jonas (Disney-Hyperion) (NF-H)
39. “The 6th Target” by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (Vision) (F-P)
40. “Your Heart Belongs to Me” by Dean Koontz (Bantam) (F-H)
41. “Rachael Ray’s Big Orange Book” by Rachael Ray (Clarkson Potter) (NF-P)
42. “Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid” by Denis Leary (Viking Adult) (NF-H)
43. “Hot, Flat and Crowded” by Thomas Friedman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
44. “Twilight: The Complete Illustrated Movie Companion” by Mark Cotta Vaz (Little, Brown for Young Readers) (NF-P)
45. “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” by Jeff Kinney (Abrams Books for Young Readers) (F-H)
46. “I Can Has Cheezburger?: A LOLcat Colleckshun by Professor Happycat and icanhascheezburger.com (Gotham) (NF-P)
47. “Eat, Pray, Love” by Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin) (NF-P)
48. “The Snowball” by Alice Schroeder (Bantam) (NF-H)
49. “The Road” by Cormac McCarthy (Vintage) (F-P)
50. “The Hour I First Believed” by Wally Lamb (Harper) (F-H)
Reporting stores include: Amazon.com, B. Dalton Bookseller, Barnes & Noble.com, Barnes & Noble Inc., Books-A-Million and Bookland, Booksamillion.com, Borders Books & Music, Bookstar, Bookstop, Brentano’s, Davis Kidd Booksellers in Nashville, Jackson, Memphis, Tenn., Doubleday Book Shops, Hudson Booksellers, Joseph-Beth Booksellers (Lexington, Ky.; Cincinnati, Cleveland), Powell’s Books (Portland, Ore.), Powells.com, R.J. Julia Booksellers (Madison, Conn.), Schuler.
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