HARDCOVER FICTION

1. “Cross Country” by James Patterson (Little, Brown)

2. “The Christmas Sweater” by Glenn Beck (Threshold Editions)

3. “Arctic Drift” by Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler (Putnam)

4. “Just After Sunset: Stories” by Stephen King (Scribner)

5. “Your Heart Belongs to Me” by Dean Koontz (Bantam)

6. “The Hour I First Believed” by Wally Lamb (Harper)

7. “Divine Justice” by David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing)

8. “The Lucky One” by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing)

9. “The Story of Edgar Sawtelle” by David Wroblewski (Ecco)

10. “The Host” by Stephenie Meyer (Little Brown)

11. “The Private Patient” by P. D. James (Knopf)

12. “The Gate House” by Nelson DeMille (Grand Central Publishing)

13. “Princep’s Fury” by Jim Butcher (Ace Hardcover)

14. “A Mercy” by Toni Morrison (Knopf)

15. “Dashing Through the Snow” by Mary Higgins Clark, Carol Higgins Clark (Simon & Schuster)



NONFICTION/GENERAL

1. “The Last Lecture” by Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow (Hyperion)

2. “Outliers: The Story of Success” by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown)

3. “Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World” by Vicki Myron, Brett Witter (Grand Central)

4. “American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House” by Jon Meacham (Random House)

5. “Too Fat To Fish” by Artie Lange and Anthony Bozza (Spiegel & Grau)

6. “The Purpose Of Christmas” by Rick Warren (Howard Books)

7. “YOU: Being Beautiful: The Owner’s Manual to Inner and Outer Beauty” by Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet Oz (Free Press)

8. “A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity” by Bill O’Reilly (Broadway)

9. “Do the Right Thing: Inside the Movement That’s Bringing Common Sense Back to America” by Mike Huckabee (Sentinel HC)

10. “Guinness: World Records 2009” by Guinness World Records (Guinness Publishing)

11. “Hot, Flat and Crowded” by Thomas Friedman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

12. “Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics: Fabulous Flavor from Simple Ingredients” by Ina Garten (Clarkson Potter)

13. “Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid” by Denis Leary (Viking Adult)

14. “The Snowball” by Alice Schroeder (Bantam)

15. “Flat Belly Diet” by Liz Vaccariello and Cynthia Sass (Rodale Books)



TRADE PAPERBACKS

1. “The Shack” by William P. Young (Windblown Media)

2. “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream” by Barack Obama (Three Rivers Press)

3. “Dreams from My Father” by Barack Obama (Three Rivers Press)

4. “A Thousand Splendid Suns” by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead)

5. “Three Cups Of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time” by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (Penguin)

6. “Halo: The Cole Protocol” by Tobias S. Buckell (Tor)

7. “The Love Dare” by Stephen Kendrick and Alex Kendrick (B&H)

8. “The Secret Life of Bees” by Sue Monk Kidd (Penguin)

9. “Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln” by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Simon & Schuster)

10. “Remember Me?” by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Dial Press Trade Paperback)

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

12. “Rachael Ray’s Big Orange Book” by Rachael Ray (Clarkson Potter)

13. “World Without End” by Ken Follett (NAL)

14. “Skinny B----” by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin (Running Press)

15. “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” by Junot Díaz by (Riverhead)



—Publishers Weekly/Associated Press