1. The Tiger's Wife, by Téa Obreht, Random House
2. The Help, by Kathryn Stockett, Berkley
3. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson, Vintage
4. Swamplandia!, by Karen Russell, Vintage
5. A Visit From the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan, Anchor
6. Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese, Vintage
7. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, by Jonathan Safran Foer, Mariner
8. The Girl Who Played With Fire, by Stieg Larsson, Vintage
9. Freedom, by Jonathan Franzen, Picador
10. Sarah's Key, by Tatiana De Rosnay, St. Martin's Griffin
11. Room, by Emma Donoghue, Back Bay
12. The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein, Harper
13. A Discovery of Witches, by Deborah Harkness, Penguin
14. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, by John Le Carré, Penguin
15. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, by Helen Simonson, Random House
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17. The House at Tyneford, by Natasha Solomons, Plume
A young Jewish woman is forced to flee 1938 Vienna and becomes a parlor maid in England.