Having read the other suggestions and listened to the album multiple more times, here's my take on the single releases:
1. Secret Love
2. In Your Dreams
3. Moonlight
4. Italian Summer
5. Everybody Loves You
The five songs I listed as singles all share in common a "radio ready" sound: Secret Love is concise, well written pop song and already a top 20 AC hit. In Your Dreams is the most immediately catchy song on the album and one of the top choices for a single by most of the people in this thread. Moonlight is widely cited as arguably the best song on the album, and with the Twilight tie-in, as well as being the other song most cited by people here as a "should be" single, makes it my third choice. Italian Summer and Everybody Loves You are both catchy, radio-friendly songs that make perfect follow-up singles to the mighty first three.
For What It's Worth, New Orleans and Annabel Lee all have great potential and in some ways they're actually classic tracks already without even the need of being singles. Of the three, New Orleans is probably the most likely to be a single, possibly replacing either Italian Summer or Everybody Loves You. For What It's Worth and Annabel Lee are heading towards the same status that Gold Dust Woman and Crystal have.....hugely popular classic songs that remain album tracks.
Wide Sargasso Sea is a wild card. It's structure makes me lean against thinking of it as a single, but it is notably a song that gets attention from both Nicks fans and others.
Soldier's Angel, Ghosts Are Gone and You May Be The One are all excellent songs. They're so good in fact that IMO people tend to mistake their quality with being something with single potential (perhaps not Soldier's Angel, but the latter two for sure). I don't think any of these songs would make good singles though. I'm not denying the quality of these songs in any way, but their sounds are all a little too esoteric for a wide-appeal single.
Cheaper Than Free is an atmosphere song that one either gets or doesn't. Could it be a single? I don't think so, precisely because of the "either/or" reaction that it's gotten.
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