Hardcover Fiction

1. Lost Symbol, by Dan Brown (Doubleday $29.95)

2. South of Broad, by Pat Conroy (Nan A. Talese $29.95)

3. The Help, by Kathryn Stockett (Putnam $24.95)

4. Last Song, by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central $24.99)

5. Elephant Keeper, by Christopher Nicholson (William Morrow $24.99)

Paperback Fiction

1. The Big Steal, by Emyl Jenkins (Algonquin $13.95)

2. Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout (Random House $14)

3. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Fiery Shaffer (Dial $14)

4. Stealing with Style, by Emyl Jenkins (Algonquin $12.95)

5. Loving Frank, by Nancy Horan (Ballantine $14)

Hardcover Nonfiction

1. Ifferisms, by Mardy Grothe (Collins Reference $15.99)

2. True Compass, by Edward M. Kennedy (Twelve $35)

3. Mastering the Art of French Cooking Vol. 1, by Julia Child (Knopf $40)

4. Traveling with Pomegranates, by Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor (Viking $25.95)

5. A Son of the Game, by Jim Dodson (Algonquin $24.95)

Paperback Nonfiction

1. Broken, by William Cope Moyers (Penguin $15)

2. Literary Trails of the North Carolina Mountains, by Georgann Eubanks (UNC Press $18.95)

3. Hemingses of Monticello, by Annette Gordon-Reed (Norton $18.95)

4. Mrs. Astor Regrets, by Meryl Gordon (Mariner $14.95)

5. The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls (Scribner $15)

Children's Books

1. Strega Nona's Harvest, by Tomie dePaola (Putnam $16.99)

2. Always My Brother, by Jean Reagan (Tilbury House $16.95)

3. Fancy Nancy Halloweenor Bust! by Jane O'Connor (HarperFestival $4.99)

4. Jamie O'Rourke and the Big Potato, by Tomie dePaola (Putnam $6.99)

5. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, by Judi Barrett (Atheneum $6.99)

Compiled by The Country Bookshop, Southern Pines