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Key: F-Fiction; NF-Nonfiction; H-Hardcover; P-Paperback

1. “The Secret,” by Rhonda Byrne (Beyond Words) (NF-H)

2. “Simple Genius,” by David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing) (F-H)

3. “The Children of Hurin,” by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin) (F-H)

4. “Susannah’s Garden,” by Debbie Macomber (Mira) (F-P)

5. “The Road”, by Cormac McCarthy (Vintage) (F-P)

6. “The 5th Horseman,” by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro (Warner Books) (F-P)

7. “Born in Death,” by J.D. Robb (Berkley) (F-P)

8. “Dead Watch,” by John Sandford (Berkley) (F-P)

9. “Einstein: His Life and Universe,” by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster) (NF-H)

10. “Two Little Girls in Blue,” by Mary Higgins Clark (Pocket)(F-P)

11. “The Wrong Hostage,” by Elizabeth Lowell (Avon) (F-P)

12. “The Woods,” by Harlan Coben (Dutton Adult) (F-H)

13. “Captive of My Desires,” by Johanna Lindsey (Pocket) (F-P)

14. “Where Have All the Leaders Gone?” by Lee Iacocca (Scribner) (NF-H)

15. “The Memory Keeper’s Daughter,” by Kim Edwards (Penguin) (F-P)

16. “The Loved Dog: The Playful, Nonaggressive Way to Teach Your Dog Good Behavior,” by Tamar Geller with Andrea Cagan (Simon Spotlight Entertainment) (NF-H)

17. “Warriors: Power of Three Book 1: The Sight,” by Erin Hunter (HarperCollins) (F-H)

18. “Body Surfing,” by Anita Shreve (Little, Brown and Company) (F-H)

19. “At Risk,” by Patricia Cornwell (Berkley) (F-P)

20. “I Heard That Song Before,” by Mary Higgins Clark (Simon & Schuster) (F-H)

21. “Outsider” by Diana Palmer (HQN) (F-P)

22. “Gone” by Jonathan Kellerman (Ballantine Books) (F-P)

23. “Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia” by Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin) (NF-P)

24. “Hot Stuff” by Janet Evanovich, Leanne Banks (St. Martin’s Paperbacks) (F-P)

25. “Do You!: 12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happiness and Success” by Russell Simmons, Chris Morrow (Gotham Books) (NF-H)

26. “Back on Blossom Street” by Debbie Macomber (Mira) (F-H)

27. “Blink” by Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay Books) (NF-P)

28. “Suite Francaise” by Irene Nemirovsky (Vintage) (F-P)

29. “The Book of Fate” by Brad Meltzer (Warner) (F-P)

30. “The Measure of a Man” by Sidney Poitier (HarperSanFrancisco) (NF-P)

31. “The Glass Castle: A Memoir” by Jeannette Walls (Scribner) (NF-P)

32. “The Good Husband of Zebra Drive” by Alexander McCall Smith (Pantheon) (F-H)

33. “The Weight Cure They Don’t Want You to Know About” by Kevin Trudeau (Alliance) (NF-H)

34. “Eldest: Inheritance, Book II” by Christopher Paolini (Knopf Books for Young Readers) (F-P)

35. “The River Knows” by Amanda Quick (Putnam) (F-H)

36. “Paula Deen: It Ain’t All About the Cookin”‘ by Paula Deen, Sherry Suib Cohen (Simon & Schuster) (NF-H)

37. “Nineteen Minutes” by Jodi Picoult (Atria) (F-H)

38. “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier” by Ishmael Beah (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) (NF-H)

39. “Water for Elephants” by Sara Gruen (Algonquin) (F-P)

40. “Raintree: Inferno” by Linda Howard (Silhouette Nocturne) (F-P)

41. “90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life” by Don Piper with Cecil Murphey (Revell) (NF-P)

42. “Judge & Jury” by James Patterson, Andrew Gross (Warner) (F-P)

43. “You: On A Diet: The Owner’s Manual for Waist Management” by Michael F. Roizen, Mehmet C. Oz (Free Press) (NF-H)

44. “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!” by Dr. Seuss (Random House Books for Young Readers) (F-H)

45. “Jeffery Gitomer’s Little Green Book of Getting Your Way” by Jeffery Gitomer, (FT Press) (NF-H)

46. “Fresh Disasters” by Stuart Woods (Putnam) (F-H)

47. “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead) (F-P)

48. “Promise Me” by Harlan Coben (Signet) (F-P)

49. “The Hard Way” by Lee Child (Dell) (F-P)

50. “The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them” by Freedom Writers, with Erin Gruwell (Broadway) (NF-P)

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 Books & Music (Grand Rapids, Mich.), Target, Tattered Cover Book Store (Denver), Waldenbooks.

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