1.  The Shack
By William P. Young, Windblown, $14.99, 9780964729230
A man's relationship with God is changed when his daughter is abducted.

 

2.  The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
By Junot Diaz, Riverhead, $14, 9781594483295
The bestselling sci-fi journey from the Dominican Republic to the U.S. and back is now available in paperback.

 

3.   Out Stealing Horses
By Per Petterson, Picador, $14, 9780312427085
A widower's recollections of a day with his childhood friend.

 

4.  The Secret Life of Bees
By Sue Monk Kidd, Penguin, $14, 9780142001745
The story of a 14-year-old girl set in South Carolina in 1964.

5.   Loving Frank
By Nancy Horan, Ballantine, $14, 9780345495006
Horan's fictionalized account of Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Cheney's love story is now available in paperback.

1.  Three Cups of Tea
By Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin, Penguin, $15, 9780143038252
An American's effort to open 50 schools across rural Pakistan and Afghanistan.

2.  Dreams From My Father
By Barack Obama, Three Rivers, $14.95, 9781400082773
An elegant memoir of race and place from the presidential hopeful.

3.  The Audacity of Hope
By Barack Obama, Three Rivers, $14.95, 9780307237705
Hope as a precursor to presidential ambitions. Now available in paperback in time for a surge in the polls.

4.  Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
By Oliver Sacks, Vintage, $14.95, 9781400033539
Sacks looks at the affect music can have in our daily lives.

5.  The Zookeeper's Wife
By Diane Ackerman, Norton, $14.95, 9780393333060
The true story of the zookeeper who hid hundreds of Polish Jews during WWII, based on diaries of the wife.

1.  The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
By David Wroblewski, Ecco, $25.95, 9780061374227
A masterful debut novel of a mute boy's coming of age in rural Wisconsin. This July Indie Next List Great Read is now an Oprah Book Club title.

2.  The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
By Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, Dial, $22, 9780385340991
This wonderful, poignant novel is the number one August Indie Next Great Read.

3.  The Gate House
By Nelson DeMille, Grand Central, $27.99, 9780446533423
DeMille's sequel to his 1990 bestseller, The Gold Coast.

4.  A Most Wanted Man
By John le Carré, Scribner, $28, 9781416594888
Le Carré's latest novel of spies and counterspies is an October Indie Next List Great Read.

5.  The Brass Verdict
By Michael Connelly, Little Brown, $26.99, 9780316166294
Connelly brings his two most popular characters, Hieronymus Bosch and Mickey Haller, together in this riveting thriller.

1.   Dewey
By Vicki Myron, Grand Central, $19.99, 9780446407410
The touching true story of an abandoned kitten's impact on a public library and the town of Spencer, Iowa.

2.  Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics: Fabulous Flavor From Simple Ingredients
By Ina Garten, Clarkson Potter, $35, 9781400054350
The latest cookbook from the Food Network star and bestselling author of Barefoot in Paris.

3.  Hot, Flat, and Crowded
By Thomas L. Friedman, FSG, $27.95, 9780374166854
The latest by the author of The World Is Flat looks at the global environmental crisis, and what we can do about it.

4.  Flat Belly Diet
By Cynthia Sass, Liz Vaccariello, Rodale, $25.95, 9781594868511
A weight-loss plan that targets belly fat, by editors at Prevention magazine.

5.  The Last Lecture
By Randy Pausch, Hyperion, $21.95, 9781401323257
The life-affirming "last lecture" by Pausch, then a professor at Carnegie Mellon University.

1.  Now and Then
By Robert B. Parker, Berkley, $9.99, 9780425224144

2.  The Darkest Evening of the Year
By Dean Koontz, Bantam, $7.99, 9780553589122

3.  Duma Key
By Stephen King, Pocket, $9.99, 9781416552963

4.  Dead Until Dark
By Charlaine Harris, Ace, $7.99, 9780441016990

5.  Living Dead in Dallas
By Charlaine Harris, Ace, $7.99, 9780441009237