Hardcover fiction

1. “Prey” by Michael Crichton

2. “The Lovely Bones” by Alice Sebold

3. “Four Blind Mice” by James Patterson

4. “Skipping Christmas” by John Grisham

5. “By the Light of the Moon” by Dean Koontz

6. “Hornet Flight” by Ken Follett

7. “Reversible Errors” by Scott Turow

8. “The Christmas Train” by David Baldacci

9. “Answered Prayers” by Danielle Steel

10. “From a Buick 8” by Stephen King

11. “Red Rabbit” by Tom Clancy

12. “The Christmas Shoes” by Donna VanLiere

13. “Quentins” by Maeve Binchy

14. “Blackwood Farm” by Anne Rice

15. “Visions of Sugar Plums” by Janet Evanovich

Nonfiction/general

1. “Bush at War” by Bob Woodward

2. “Leadership” by Rudolph W. Giuliani

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

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

5. “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment” by Eckhart Tolle

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

7. “Journals” by Kurt Cobain

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

9. “Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles” by Marianne Williamson

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

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

12. “Guinness World Records 2003” by Guinness Publishing

13. “My Losing Season” by Pat Conroy

14. “Stupid White Men” by Michael Moore

15. “The Conquerors: Michael Beschloss

Mass market paperbacks

1. “The Summons” by John Grisham

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

3. “Midnight Bayou” by Nora Roberts

4. “The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, Part 3) by J.R.R. Tolkien

5. “The Two Towers” by J.R.R. Tolkien

6. “Jackdaws” by Ken Follett

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

8. “Violets Are Blue” by James Patterson

9. “Table for Two” by Nora Roberts

10. “Every Breath You Take” by Ann Rule

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

12. “Brazen Virtue” by Nora Roberts

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

14. “Truly Madly Manhattan” by Nora Roberts

15. “Pale Horse Coming” by Stephen Hunter

Trade paperbacks

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

2. “John Adams” by David McCullough

3. “The Hours” by Michael Cunningham

4. “White Oleander” by Janet Fitch

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

6. “Bel Canto” by Ann Patchett

7. “Fix-It and Forget-It Cookbook” by Dawn J. Ranck and Phyllis Pellman Good

8. “Dangerous” by Nora Roberts

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

10. “Seabiscuit: An American Legend” by Laura Hillenbrand

11. “Catch Me If You Can” by Frank W. Abagnale with Stan Redding

12. “It’s Not About the Bike” by Lance Armstrong with Sally Jenkins

13. “Empire Falls” by Richard Russo

14. “Good in Bed” by Jennifer Weiner

15. “The Old Farmer’s Almanac 2003” by Robert B. Thomas