1. Towers of Midnight, by Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson, Tor
2. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk, by David Sedaris, Ian Falconer (Illus.), Little Brown
3. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, by Stieg Larsson, Knopf
4. Freedom, by Jonathan Franzen, FSG
5. The Confession, by John Grisham, Doubleday
6. Moonlight Mile, by Dennis Lehane, Morrow
7. The Help, by Kathryn Stockett, Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam
8. Fall of Giants, by Ken Follett, Dutton
9. Our Kind of Traitor, by John le Carré, Viking
10. Worth Dying For, by Lee Child, Delacorte
11. Room, by Emma Donoghue, Little Brown
12. Great House, by Nicole Krauss, Norton
13. In the Company of Others, by Jan Karon, Viking
14. The Reversal, by Michael Connelly, Little Brown
15. By Nightfall, by Michael Cunningham, FSG
ON THE RISE:
16. Mary Ann in Autumn, by Armistead Maupin, Harper, $25.99, 9780061470882
Maupin's edgy and witty follow-up to "Michael Tolliver Lives"
