Fiction
1 A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini Bloomsbury, £11.99
Tough tale of women under the Taleban by The Kite Runner author
2 No Time For Goodbye
Linwood Barclay Orion, £7.99
3 On Chesil Beach
Ian McEwan Vintage, £6.99
4 The Forgotten Garden
Kate Morton Pan, £7.99
5 Book of the Dead
Patricia Cornwell Sphere, £7.99
Art
1 Wall and Piece
Banksy Century, £12.99
The satirical graffiti artist's identity remains a mystery - and this 2005
collection remains a bestseller
2 Peter Doig
Tate Publishing, £16.99
3 Gustav Klimt
Tate Publishing, £24.99
4 BP Portrait Award 2008
National Portrait Gallery, £8.50
5 Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia
Tate Publishing, £29.99
Biography and memoir
1 Shakespeare: The World as Stage
Bill Bryson HarperPerennial, £7.99
Bearded polymath on the small island's biggest playwright
2 Call the Midwife
Jennifer Worth Phoenix, £6.99
3 The Duchess
Amanda Foreman HarperPerennial, £7.99
4 Dreams from my Father
Barack Obama Canongate, £8.99
5 The Last Fighting Tommy
Harry Patch and Richard Van Emden Bloomsbury, £7.99
Crime fiction
1 Exit Music
Ian Rankin Orion, £7.99
The death of a dissident Russian poet sparks Detective Inspector John Rebus's
17th and final outing
2 The Good Husband of Zebra Drive
Alexander McCall Smith Abacus, £6.99
3 The Woods
Harlan Coben Orion, £6.99
4 Faces
Martina Cole Headline, £7.99
5 Skin Privilege
Karin Slaughter Arrow, £6.99
Food
1 Delia's How to Cheat at Cooking
Delia Smith Ebury, £20
The no-nonsense kitchen queen sends instant mash and tinned mince sales
soaring
2 Jamie's Ministry of Food
Jamie Oliver Michael Joseph, £25
3 Jamie at Home
Jamie Oliver Michael Joseph, £25
4 Gordon Ramsay's Healthy Appetite
Gordon Ramsay Quadrille, £20
5 Nigella Express
Nigella Lawson Chatto & Windus, £25
Travel
1 Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart
Tim Butcher Vintage, £7.99
The spirit of Stanley is summoned for this solo journey through the Congo
2 Pies and Prejudice
Stuart Maconie Ebury, £7.99
3 Long Way Down
Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman Sphere, £7.99
4 Eat, Pray, Love
Elizabeth Gilbert Bloomsbury, £7.99
5 America Unchained
Dave Gorman Ebury, £11.99
Children's
1 In the Night Garden Little Library
Penguin, £3.99
Six little board books introduce Upsy Daisy, Makka Pakka and the Tombliboos
2 Peppa Pig Little Library
Ladybird, £3.99
3 Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets
Dav Pilkey Scholastic, £1
4 Where's Wally Martin Handford
Walker, £1
5 Disney High School Musical Annual 2009
Egmont, £6.99
Film & theatre
1 501 Must-See Movies
Bounty Books, £9.99
Classics old and new are re-assessed in this genre-led round-up of essential
cinema
2 The Star Wars Vault
Stephen Sansweet Simon & Schuster, £40
3 The Complete Making of Indiana Jones
Laurent Bousereau Ebury, £25
4 Sweeney Todd
Mark Salisbury Titan, £19.99
5 Halliwell's Film Guide 2008
HarperCollins, £22.99
Graphic novels
1 Watchmen
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons Titan, £17.99
A forthcoming film has piqued interest in this 1987 postmodern superhero
classic
2 Persepolis I and II
Marjane Satrapi Vintage, £7.99
3 Batman: Killing Joke
Alan Moore and Brian Bolland Titan, £11.99
4 Batman: Dark Knight Returns
Frank Miller Titan, £11.99
5 Heroes v. 1
Titan, £17.99
Celebrity memoir
1 At My Mother's Knee ... and Other Low Joints
Paul O'Grady Bantam, £18.99
Total sales: 273,807
Savage drag queen turns raconteur in 2008's surprise hit
2 Jordan: Pushed to the Limit
Katie Price Bantam, £18.99
3 My Booky Wook
Russell Brand Hodder, £7.99
4 Dear Fatty
Dawn French Century, £18.99
5 Parky: My Autobiography
Michael Parkinson Hodder, £20
History
1 A History of Modern Britain
Andrew Marr Pan, £8.99
Total sales: 133,599
A neat portrait of contemporary Britain from the BBC stalwart
2 3 Para
Patrick Bishop HarperPerennial, £7.99
3 Bomber Boys
Patrick Bishop HarperPerennial, £7.99
4 Young Stalin
Simon Sebag Montefiore Phoenix, £9.99
5 The Discovery of France
Graham Robb Picador, £9.99
Sport
1 Match Annual 2009
Boxtree, £6.99
Total sales: 32,886
Now approaching its 30th birthday, and still UK teenagers' favourite football
magazine
2 Match of the Day Annual 2009
BBC, £6.99
3 Playfair Cricket Annual 2008
ed. Bill Frindall Headline, £6.99
4 Official Manchester United Annual 2009
Orion, £6.99
5 Match Annual 2008
Boxtree, £6.99
Audiobooks
1 The Wit of Cricket
Hodder, £14.99
Total sales: 8,678 Sporting anecdotes recounted live by Brian Johnston, Dickie
Bird and Henry Blofeld
2 I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue
BBC, £12.99
3 The Secret Rhonda Byrne
Simon & Schuster, £16.99
4 I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue: Anniversary Special
BBC, £12.99
5 Doctor Who: Pest Control
Peter Anghelides BBC, £9.99
Sci-fi/fantasy
1 Making Money
Terry Pratchett Corgi, £7.99
Total sales: 144,666
Ankh-Morpork switches from gold to paper currency in the latest Discworld romp
2 I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue
BBC, £12.99
3 The Children of Hurin
J.R.R. Tolkien HarperCollins, £8.99
4 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
J.K. Rowling Bloomsbury, £8.99
5 Matter
Iain M. Banks Orbit, £18.99
Thrillers
1 No Time for Goodbye
Linwood Barclay Orion, £7.99
Total sales: 602,740
A teenager's family disappears overnight in this Canadian chiller
2 Book of the Dead
Patricia Cornwell Sphere, £7.99
3 Bad Luck and Trouble
Lee Child Bantam, £6.99
4 The Shakespeare Secret
J.L. Carrell Sphere, £6.99
5 Bones to Ashes
Kathy Reichs Arrow, £6.99
Nature
1 RSPB Pocket Guide to British Birds
Simon Harrap A&C Black, £4.99
Total sales: 11,916
174 species identified by plumage and song
2 Flights of Fancy
Peter Tate Random House, £10
3 The Emerald Planet
David Beerling OUP, £14.99
4 Animal Behaviour
John Alcock Sinauer Associates, £39.99
5 Dictionary of Animal Behaviour
David McFarland OUP, £10.99
Gardening
1 Vegetable and Herb Expert
D.G. Hessayon Expert Books, £7.99
Total sales: 33,993
Perennial favourite from reclusive octogenarian horticulturalist
2 The Kitchen Gardener
Alan Titchmarsh BBC, £20
3 Around the World in 80 Gardens
Monty Don Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £20
4 Grow Your Own Veg
Carol Klein Mitchell Beazley, £16.99
5 B&Q Outdoor Living
B&Q, £16.98
Children's 11+
1 The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
John Boyne
Definitions, £6.99
Total sales: 159,439 A friendship across the Auschwitz fence, recently made
into a film
2 Brisingr
Christopher Paolini Doubleday, £16.99
3 Twilight
Stephenie Meyer Atom, £6.99
4 My Sister Jodie
Jacqueline Wilson Doubleday, £12.99
5 Nation
Terry Pratchett Doubleday, £16.99
Photography
1 The Photography Book
Phaidon, £6.95
Total sales: 5,889 Bite-size anthology containing 500 photographers from the
19th Century to today
2 Coast From the Air
Oliver Neil BBC, £25
3 Burlesque and the Art of the Teese
Dita von Teese Harper, £25
4 Street and Studio
Ute Eskildsen Tate, £24.99
5 The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn
David Okuefuna BBC, £35
