The top 10

San Francisco Chronicle, fiction
1 In the Company of Cheerful Ladies, Alexander McCall Smith
2 Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
3 The Mermaid Chair, Sue Monk Kidd
4 Saturday, Ian McEwan
5 Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
6 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
7 The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
8 The History of Love, Nicole Krauss
9 The Innocent, Harlan Coben
10 Ya-Yas in Bloom, Rebecca Wells

New York Times, non-fiction
1 The World is Flat, Thomas L Friedman
2 Blink, Malcolm Gladwell
3 My Life So Far, Jane Fonda
4 Freakonomics, Steven D Levitt & Stephen J Dubner
5 One Soldier’s Story, Bob Dole
6 On Bull——, Harry G Frankfurt
7 Baby Laughs, Jenny McCarthy
8 Under And Alone, William Queen
9 A Deficit of Decency, Zell Miller
10 Liberalism Is A Mental Disorder, Michael Savage