Paperback fiction bestsellers, week of 10/7

1. The Emperor’s Children
By Claire Messud. Vintage.
2. Water for Elephants
By Sara Gruen. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.
3. Suite Francaise
By Irene Nemirovsky. Vintage.
4. The Kite Runner
By Khaled Hosseini. Riverhead.
5. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
By Kim Edwards. Penguin.
6. Digging to America
By Anne Tyler. Random House.
7. The Best American Short Stories 2007
Edited by Stephen King. Houghton Mifflin.
8. Middlesex
By Jeffrey Eugenides. Picador.
9. The Echo Maker
By Richard Powers. Picador.
10. One Good Turn
By Kate Atkinson. Back Bay.

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