2009 Bestsellers at Broadway Books

The Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel-in-short-stories Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout, topped the list of bestselling books at Broadway Books in 2009. The list of our top 25 bestselling titles includes 18 novels and 3 memoirs and seems heavily influenced by book clubs and our staff favorites. Quite happy to see so many local authors represented on this list as well. How many of these have you read? I'll post some genre-specific 2009 bestseller lists in a day or two.

1. Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout
2. The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery
3. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
4. The Opposite Field, Jessie Katz
5. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
6. The Highest Tide, Jim Lynch
7. The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein
8. The Stubborn Twig, Lauren Kessler
9. Unaccustomed Earth, Jhumpa Lahiri
10. My Life in France, Julia Child with Alex Prud'homme
11. The Hearts of Horses, Molly Gloss
12. Pedaling Revolution, Jeff Mapes
13. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
14. Out Stealing Horses, Per Petterson
15. Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson with David Oliver Relin
16. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
17. Half the Sky, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
18. Run, Ann Patchett
19. White Tiger, Aravind Adiga
20. Night Train to Lisbon, Pascal Mercier
21. People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks
22. Lavinia, Ursula LeGuin
23. Twilight, Stephenie Meyers
24. The Book Thief, Mark Zusak
25. Dreams from my Father, Barack Obama