1. EXTREMELY LOUD & INCREDIBLY CLOSE
by Jonathan Safran Foer
Houghton Mifflin, 368 pp., $24.95

2. SATURDAY
by Ian McEwan
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 304 pp., $26

3. ON BULLSHIT
by Harry G. Frankfurt
Princeton, 80 pp., $9.95

4. GILEAD
by Marilynne Robinson
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 256 pp., $23

5. ASSASSINATION VACATION
by Sarah Vowell
Simon & Schuster, 272 pp., $21

6. LIGHTHOUSEKEEPING
by Jeanette Winterson
Harcourt, 240 pp., $23

7. KAFKA ON THE SHORE
by Haruki Murakami
Knopf, 436 pp., $25.95

8. THE HISTORY OF LOVE
by Nicole Krauss
W.W. Norton, 252 pp., $23.95

9. EMBROIDERIES
by Marjane Satrapi
Pantheon, 144 pp., $16.95

10. ALL YESTERDAYS' PARTIES: THE VELVET UNDERGROUND IN PRINT, 1966-1971
Edited by Clinton Heylin
Da Capo, 278 pp., $26

PAPERBACK

1. REGARDING THE PAIN OF OTHERS
by Susan Sontag
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 144 pp., $11

2. THE SHADOW OF THE WIND
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Penguin, 496 pp., $15

3. HOUSEKEEPING
by Marilynne Robinson
Picador USA, 224 pp., $14

4. EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED
by Jonathan Safran Foer
Perennial, 288 pp., $13.95

5. CINEMA: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF FILM AND THE MEMORY OF A CENTURY
by Jean-Luc Godard and Youssef Ishaghpour
Berg, 160 pp., $18

6. THE OUTLAW BIBLE OF AMERICAN LITERATURE
by Alan Kaufman, Neil Ortenberg, and Barney Rosset
Thunder's Mouth, 662 pp., $24.95

7. WOBBLIES: A GRAPHIC HISTORY
Edited by Paul Buhle and Nicole Schulman
Verso, 305 pp., $25

8. LESSONS IN TAXIDERMY
by Bee Lavender
Akashic/Punk Planet, 168 pp., $12.95

9. TRUTH AND BEAUTY
by Ann Patchett
Perennial, 257 pp., $13.95

1O. WONG KAR-WAI: AUTEUR OF TIME
by Stephen Teo
British Film Institute, 212 pp., $19.95

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