"I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves."
—Edward Morgan Forster (1879-1970) British writer, A Room with a View
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- Life of Pi
- by Yann Martel (Mariner, ISBN: 9780547848419);
Last week: 1;
Weeks on List: 5
"Martel's beloved 2002 Man Booker Prize-winning novel is now a major motion picture."
- Cloud Atlas
- by David Mitchell (Random House, ISBN: 9780812984415);
Last week: 2;
Weeks on List: 6
"The dazzling third novel by the author of The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet is now a major motion picture."
- Wolf Hall
- by Hilary Mantel (Picador, ISBN: 9780312429980);
Last week: 7;
Weeks on List: 28
"The winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize is now available in paperback."
- The Paris Wife
- by Paula McLain (Ballantine, ISBN: 9780345521316);
Weeks on List: 1
"McLain's richly rewarding novel about the marriage of Ernest and Hadley Richardson Hemingway."
- The Sense of an Ending
- by Julian Barnes (Vintage, ISBN: 9780307947727);
Last week: 4;
Weeks on List: 26
"In this novel by the author of Pulse, a middle-aged man contends with a past he has never much thought about."
- The Night Circus
- by Erin Morgenstern (Anchor, ISBN: 9780307744432);
Last week: 6;
Weeks on List: 21
"Morgenstern's spell-casting debut novel about a mysterious circus and a duel between two young magicians."
- Fifty Shades of Grey
- by E.L. James (Vintage, ISBN: 9780345803481);
Last week: 5;
Weeks on List: 34
"The first novel in James' erotic, amusing, and deeply moving trilogy."
- State of Wonder
- by Ann Patchett (Harper Perennial, ISBN: 9780062049810);
Last week: 8;
Weeks on List: 29
"A provocative novel set deep in the Amazon jungle, by the author of Bel Canto."
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower
- by Stephen Chbosky (MTV Books, ISBN: 9781451696196);
Last week: 3;
Weeks on List: 10
"Chbosky's powerful novel of the wild and poignant days of adolescence is now a major motion picture."
- The Snow Child
- by Eowyn Ivey (Reagan Arthur/Back Bay Books, ISBN: 9780316175661);
Last week: 10;
Weeks on List: 4
"Ivey's touching novel is set in the Alaskan wilderness of the 1920s."
- The Language of Flowers
- by Vanessa Diffenbaugh (Ballantine, ISBN: 9780345525550);
Last week: 12;
Weeks on List: 34
"Diffenbaugh's beautiful debut novel about a woman whose gift for flowers helps her change the lives of others."
- Rules of Civility
- by Amor Towles (Penguin, ISBN: 9780143121169);
Last week: 11;
Weeks on List: 22
"Towles' captivating debut novel about an irresistible young woman with an uncommon sense of purpose."
- The Marriage Plot
- by Jeffrey Eugenides (Picador, ISBN: 9781250014764);
Last week: 9;
Weeks on List: 12
"The impressive novel about the lives of three seniors at Brown University in the early 1980s by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Middlesex."
- The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again
- by J.R.R. Tolkien (Mariner, ISBN: 9780547928227);
Weeks on List: 1
"Tolkien's modern classic and prelude to The Lord of the Rings is now a major motion picture."
- Fifty Shades Freed
- by E.L. James (Vintage, ISBN: 9780345803504);
Last week: 14;
Weeks on List: 32
"Book Three in James' bestselling 50 Shades Trilogy."
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