Hardcover fiction

1. “The Lovely Bones” by Alice Sebold

2. “Skipping Christmas” by John Grisham

3. “Chesapeake Blue” by Nora Roberts

4. “Visions of Sugar Plums” by Janet Evanovich

5. “The Christmas Train” by David Baldacci

6. “Reversible Errors” by Scott Turow

7. “Answered Prayers” by Danielle Steel

8. “Quentins” by Maeve Binchy

9. “Blackwood Farm” by Anne Rice

10. “Q is for Quarry” by Sue Grafton

11. “The Little Friend” by Donna Tartt

12. “Esther’s Gift” by Jan Karon

13. “Nights in Rodanthe” by Nicholas Sparks

14. “The Last Promise” by Richard Paul Evans

15. “Blessings” by Anna Quindlen

Nonfiction/general

1. “Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper-Case Closed” by Patricia Cornwell

2. “Leadership” by Rudolph W. Giuliani

3. “A Long Way from Home: Growing Up in the American Heartland” by Tom Brokaw

4. “Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance?” by Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

5. “Journals” by Kurt Cobain

6. “My Losing Season” by Pat Conroy

7. “Who Moved My Cheese?” by Spencer Johnson

8. “I May Be Wrong but I Doubt It” by Charles Barkley

9. “Sandy Koufax: A Lefty’s Legacy” by Jane Leavy

10. “Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live” by Tom Shales & James Andrew Miller

11. “The Conquerors” by Michael R. Beschloss

12. “Good to Great” by Jim Collins

13. “Get with the Program!” by Bob Greene

14. “The Sopranos Family Cookbook” by Allen Rucker; recipes by Michele Scicolone

15. “Abraham” by Bruce Feiler

Mass market paperbacks

1. “Table for Two” by Nora Roberts

2. “One Door Away from Heaven” by Dean Koontz

3. “Violets Are Blue” by James Patterson

4. “No Place Like Home” by Fern Michaels

5. “Tom Clancy’s Power Plays: Cutting Edge” by Tom Clancy and Martin Greenberg; written by Jerome Preisler

6. “The Kiss” by Danielle Steel

7. “Isle of Dogs” by Patricia Cornwell

8. “The Millionaires” by Brad Meltzer

9. “The Promise in a Kiss” by Stephanie Laurens

10. “Total Recall” by Sara Peretsky

11. “Smoke in Mirrors” by Jayne Ann Krentz

12. “Dr. Atkins New Diet Revolution” by Robert C. Atkins

13. “The Sigma Protocol” by Robert Ludlum

14. “He Sees You When You’re Sleeping” by Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark

15. “Strangers in the Night” by Linda Howard

Trade paperbacks

1. “White Oleander” by Janet Fitch

2. “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” by Robert T. Kiyosaki

3. “Bel Canto” by Ann Patchett

4. “Going Home” by Nora Roberts

5. “John Adams” by David McCullough

6. “Good in Bed” by Jennifer Weiner

7. “Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress” by Dai Sijie, Sijie Dai, and Ina Rilke

8. “Lucky” by Alice Sebold

9. “Empire Falls” by Richard Russo

10. “Tuesdays with Morrie” by Mitch Albom

11. “What to Expect When You’re Expecting” by Heidi Murkoff, Arlene Eisenberg and Sandee Hathaway

12. “World Almanac and Book of Facts 2003” Edited by Ken Park

13. “Peace Like a River” by Leif Enger

14. “The Corrections” by Jonathan Franzen

15. “The Hours” by Michael Cunningham