1. Water for Elephants
By Sara Gruen. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.

2. The Emperor’s Children
By Claire Messud. Vintage.

3. Suite Française
By Irène Némirovsky. Vintage.

4. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
By Kim Edwards. Penguin.

5. The Kite Runner
By Khaled Hosseini. Riverhead.

6. The Inheritance of Loss
By Kiran Desai. Grove.

7. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
By J..K. Rowling. Scholastic.

8. Evening
By Susan Minot. Vintage.

9. The Remains of the Day
By Kazuo Ishiguro. Vintage.

10. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
By J..K. Rowling. Scholastic.

1. The Dangerous Book for Boys
By Conn Iggulden and Hal Iggulden. Collins.

2. The Secret
By Rhonda Byrne. Beyond Words.

3. Legacy of Ashes
By Tim Weiner. Doubleday.

4. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
By Barbara Kingsolver. HarperCollins.

5. Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar .....
By Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein. Abrams.

6. The Weight Loss Cure ‘‘They’’ Don’t Want You to Know About
By Kevin Trudeau. Alliance.

7. A Long Way Gone
By Ishmael Beah. Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

8. Leviathan
By Eric Jay Dolin. Norton.

9. Happier
By Tal Ben-Shahar. McGraw-Hill.

10. Boston in Photographs
By Saba Alhadi. Gramercy.