Fiction
- Steve Berry – The Paris Vendetta
- Dan Brown – The Lost Symbol
- Michael Crichton – Pirate Latitudes
- Sue Grafton – U is for Undertow
- John Grisham – Ford County
- Stephen King – Under the Dome
- Barbara Kingsolver – The Lacuna
- Hilary Mantel – Wolf Hall
- James Patterson – I, Alex Cross
- Kathryn Stockett – The Help
Nonfiction
- Andre Agassi – Open
- Mitch Albom – Have a Little Faith
- Timothy Egan – The Big Burn
- Malcolm Gladwell – What the Dog Saw
- Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn – Half the Sky
- Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner – SuperFreakonomics
- Greg Mortenson – Stones Into Schools
- Sarah Palin – Going Rogue
- Bill Simmons – The Book of Basketball
- Andrew Ross Sorkin – Too Big to Fail









