Hardcover Fiction

Trade Paperback Fiction

1. Water for Elephants

By Sara Gruen

An indie fave about a traveling circus comes to paperback.

The 2007 Book Sense Book of the Year Fiction Winner.

10. The Thirteenth Tale

By Diane Setterfield

A really good ghost story!! A Book Sense Pick in Hardcover

9. The Road

By Cormac McCarthy

A barren post-apocalyptic landscape is the foreground, and background for this Pulitzer Prize winning Book Sense Book of the Year Honor Book and Oprah Book Club choice.

8. What is What

By Dave Egders

Fictionalized memoir of a survivor of the tragedy in the Sudan.

7. The Kite Runner

By Khaled Hosseini

A Book Sense Pick, now in paperback.  A stunning, enlightening novel of friendship and Afghan culture and politics.

6. No Country for Old Men

By Cormac McCarthy

A #1 Book Sense Pick in hardcover. 

5. Suite Francaise

By Irene Nemirovsky

Paris under the Germans by an author interned in Auschwitz.

A bestseller in hardcover too.l

2. Love in the Time of Cholera

By Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Luminous turn of the century chronicle of a unique love triangle. The new Oprah Book Club Pick.

4. Pillars of the Earth

By Ken Follett

The newest Oprah Book Club book set in medieval England, was originally published in 1989.

3. The Gathering

By Ann Enright

Enright’s newest novel about a large Irish family gathering for a wake for one of their own.