| Title | Description |
| 1. Life of Pi |
by Yann Martel (Mariner, ISBN: 9780547848419);
Last week: 1;
Weeks on List: 5
"Martel's beloved 2002 Man Booker Prize-winning novel is now a major motion picture." |
| 2. Cloud Atlas |
by David Mitchell (Random House, ISBN: 9780812984415);
Last week: 2;
Weeks on List: 6
"The dazzling third novel by the author of The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet is now a major motion picture." |
| 3. Wolf Hall |
by Hilary Mantel (Picador, ISBN: 9780312429980);
Last week: 7;
Weeks on List: 28
"The winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize is now available in paperback." |
| 4. The Paris Wife |
by Paula McLain (Ballantine, ISBN: 9780345521316);
Weeks on List: 1
"McLain's richly rewarding novel about the marriage of Ernest and Hadley Richardson Hemingway." |
| 5. The Sense of an Ending |
by Julian Barnes (Vintage, ISBN: 9780307947727);
Last week: 4;
Weeks on List: 26
"In this novel by the author of Pulse, a middle-aged man contends with a past he has never much thought about." |
| 6. The Night Circus |
by Erin Morgenstern (Anchor, ISBN: 9780307744432);
Last week: 6;
Weeks on List: 21
"Morgenstern's spell-casting debut novel about a mysterious circus and a duel between two young magicians." |
| 7. Fifty Shades of Grey |
by E.L. James (Vintage, ISBN: 9780345803481);
Last week: 5;
Weeks on List: 34
"The first novel in James' erotic, amusing, and deeply moving trilogy." |
| 8. State of Wonder |
by Ann Patchett (Harper Perennial, ISBN: 9780062049810);
Last week: 8;
Weeks on List: 29
"A provocative novel set deep in the Amazon jungle, by the author of Bel Canto." |
| 9. The Perks of Being a Wallflower |
by Stephen Chbosky (MTV Books, ISBN: 9781451696196);
Last week: 3;
Weeks on List: 10
"Chbosky's powerful novel of the wild and poignant days of adolescence is now a major motion picture." |
| 10. The Snow Child |
by Eowyn Ivey (Reagan Arthur/Back Bay Books, ISBN: 9780316175661);
Last week: 10;
Weeks on List: 4
"Ivey's touching novel is set in the Alaskan wilderness of the 1920s." |
| 11. The Language of Flowers |
by Vanessa Diffenbaugh (Ballantine, ISBN: 9780345525550);
Last week: 12;
Weeks on List: 34
"Diffenbaugh's beautiful debut novel about a woman whose gift for flowers helps her change the lives of others." |
| 12. Rules of Civility |
by Amor Towles (Penguin, ISBN: 9780143121169);
Last week: 11;
Weeks on List: 22
"Towles' captivating debut novel about an irresistible young woman with an uncommon sense of purpose." |
| 13. The Marriage Plot |
by Jeffrey Eugenides (Picador, ISBN: 9781250014764);
Last week: 9;
Weeks on List: 12
"The impressive novel about the lives of three seniors at Brown University in the early 1980s by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Middlesex." |
| 14. The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again |
by J.R.R. Tolkien (Mariner, ISBN: 9780547928227);
Weeks on List: 1
"Tolkien's modern classic and prelude to The Lord of the Rings is now a major motion picture." |
| 15. Fifty Shades Freed |
by E.L. James (Vintage, ISBN: 9780345803504);
Last week: 14;
Weeks on List: 32
"Book Three in James' bestselling 50 Shades Trilogy." |
