Trade Fiction Paperback

• #1

  THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO

  Stieg Larsson
  

  A hacker and a journalist investigate the disappearance of a Swedish heiress.

  On the bestsellers list for 61 weeks.

  

• #2

  THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE

  Stieg Larsson
  

  A Swedish hacker becomes a murder suspect.

  On the bestsellers list for 22 weeks.

  

• #3

  LITTLE BEE

  Chris Cleave
  

  The lives of a British woman and a Nigerian girl collide.

  On the bestsellers list for 27 weeks.

  

• #4

  CUTTING FOR STONE

  Abraham Verghese
  

  Twin brothers, conjoined and then separated, grow up amid the political turmoil of Ethiopia.

  On the bestsellers list for 30 weeks.

  

• #5

  FORD COUNTY

  John Grisham
  

  Stories set in the same rural Mississippi locale as "A Time to Kill."

  On the bestsellers list for 1 week.

  

• #6

  THE LACUNA

  Barbara Kingsolver
  

  A young American growing up in Mexico becomes friends with artists and radicals; later, in the United States, he is menaced by McCarthyism.

  On the bestsellers list for 5 weeks.

  

• #7

  THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN

  Garth Stein
  

  An insightful Lab-terrier mix helps his owner, a struggling race car driver.

  On the bestsellers list for 63 weeks.

  

• #8

  UNDER THE DOME

  Stephen King
  

  Trapped by an invisible force field, a Maine town falls prey to a devious politician.

  On the bestsellers list for 7 weeks.

  

• #9

  THE ALCHEMIST

  Paulo Coelho
  

  A Spanish shepherd boy goes to Egypt in search of treasure.

  On the bestsellers list for 142 weeks.

  

• #10

  BEST FRIENDS FOREVER

  Jennifer Weiner
  

  Childhood friends, estranged in high school, reunite years later when one needs help.

  On the bestsellers list for 16 weeks.

  

• #11

  ONE DAY

  David Nicholls
  

  Checking in year by year on the confused, halting romance of two children of the ’80s.

  On the bestsellers list for 9 weeks.

  

• #12

  SARAH’S KEY

  Tatiana de Rosnay
  

  A contemporary American journalist investigates what happened to a little girl and her family during the roundup of Jews in Paris in 1942.

  On the bestsellers list for 80 weeks.

  

• #13

  WATER FOR ELEPHANTS

  Sara Gruen
  

  A young man — and an elephant — save a Depression-era circus.

  On the bestsellers list for 91 weeks.

  

• #14

  A RELIABLE WIFE

  Robert Goolrick
  

  Complications ensue when a wealthy Wisconsin widower in 1907 advertises for a spouse.

  On the bestsellers list for 32 weeks.

  

• #15

  THE SHACK

  William P Young
  

  A man whose daughter was abducted is invited to an isolated shack, apparently by God.

  On the bestsellers list for 113 weeks.

  

• #16

  SOUTH OF BROAD

  Pat Conroy
  

  An unlikely group’s friendship from the ’60s to the ’80s, by the author of "The Prince of Tides."

  On the bestsellers list for 13 weeks.

  

• #17

  LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN

  Colum McCann
  

  Philippe Petit’s 1974 high-wire walk between the twin towers is pivotal to the lives in this novel, a winner of the 2009 National Book Award.

  On the bestsellers list for 24 weeks.

  

• #18

  HOTEL ON THE CORNER OF BITTER AND SWEET

  Jamie Ford
  

  A friendship between a Chinese-American boy and a Japanese-American girl in Seattle during World War II.

  On the bestsellers list for 16 weeks.

  

• #19

  HER FEARFUL SYMMETRY

  Audrey Niffenegger
  

  A woman haunts the flat she’s left to her twin nieces near Highgate Cemetery in London.

  On the bestsellers list for 7 weeks.

• #20

  TINKERS

  Paul Harding
  

  A dying clock repairman recalls his impoverished New England childhood; a 2010 Pulitzer winner.

  On the bestsellers list for 17 weeks.