Paperback fiction bestsellers, week of 10/14

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 Best American Short Stories 2007
Edited by Stephen King. Houghton Mifflin.
5. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
By Kim Edwards. Penguin.
6. The Kite Runner
By Khaled Hosseini. Riverhead.
7. The Echo Maker
By Richard Powers. Picador.
8. Love in the Time of Cholera
By Gabriel García Márquez. Vintage.
9. Middlesex
By Jeffrey Eugenides. Picador.
10. The Road
By Cormac McCarthy. Vintage.

Compiled by Borders Books & Music, Brookline Booksmith, Concord Bookshop, Harvard Book Store, New England Mobile Book Fair, Newtonville Books, and Porter Square Books.