1. EASY PREY
by John Sandford
Putnam
The homicide detective Lucas Davenport investigates the strangulation of a famous model.
2. BEFORE I SAY GOOD-BYE
by Mary Higgins Clark
Simon & Schuster
A woman with ESP searches for the truth behind the death of her husband, who was killed when his boat exploded in New York harbor.
3. HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS
by J.K. Rowling
Levine/Scholastic
A British boy finds trouble when he returns to a witchcraft school.
4. HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN
by J.K. Rowling
Levine/Scholastic
A British boy's life at a school for witchcraft is menaced when an infamous murderer escapes from prison.
5. THE BRETHREN
by John Grisham
Doubleday
Three former judges, doing time at a federal prison in Florida, concoct a lucrative mail scam that goes awry.
6. THE BLUEST EYE
by Toni Morrison, Knopf
The story of an 11-year-old black girl -- pregnant by her father -- who prays for her eyes to turn blue.
7. STANDOFF
by Sandra Brown
Warner
A television reporter finds herself protecting the runaway teen-age daughter of a multimillionaire from Texas.
8. THE WEDDING
by Danielle Steel
Delacorte
Allegra Steinberg, an entertainment lawyer, makes plans to marry a New York writer in her parents' Bel Air home.
9. THE EMPTY CHAIR
by Jeffery Deaver
Forensic specialists pursue a disturbed teen-age boy who abducted two young women.
10. (x) HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE
by J.K. Rowling
Levine/Scholastic
A British boy, neglected by his relatives, finds his fortune attending a school of witchcraft.
11. STAR WARS: Rogue Planet
by Greg Bear
Lucas/Del Rey/Ballantine
Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker are swept up in a world of deadly intrigue.
12. OH, THE PLACES YOU'LL GO!
by Dr. Seuss
Random House
Finding your way through life.
13. BACK ROADS
by Tawni O'Dell, Viking
The ordeals of a 19-year-old man in western Pennsylvania who must care for his three younger sisters.
14. ANIL'S GHOST
by Michael Ondaatje
Knopf
A Sri Lankan woman who studied medicine abroad returns to examine the victims of her country's terror.
15. HE SHALL THUNDER
IN THE SKY
by Elizabeth Peters
Morrow
In Cairo in 1914, the archaeologist-sleuth Amelia Peabody must confront her archenemy.
16.(x) FIERCE INVALIDS HOME FROM HOT CLIMATES
by Tom Robbins
Bantam
A CIA operative named Switters goes on an erotic-spiritual quest.Nonfiction
1. TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE
by Mitch Albom
Doubleday
A sportswriter tells of his weekly visits to his old college mentor, who was near death.
2. FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS
by James Bradley
with Ron Powers
Bantam
The story of the marines who raised the flag at Iwo Jima, by the son of one of the men.
3. NO SUCH THING AS A BAD DAY
by Hamilton Jordan
Longstreet
A memoir by Jimmy Carter's chief of staff, who has survived three bouts of cancer.
4. THE CAMINO
by Shirley MacLaine
A "journey of the spirit" takes the actress from present-day Spain through past lives to the origins of the universe.
5. IN THE HEART OF THE SEA
by Nathaniel Philbrick
Viking
The story of the whale ship Essex, whose disastrous fate in the early 19th century would later serve as inspiration for Herman Melville.
6. 'TIS
by Frank McCourt
Scribner
An Irish immigrant gets used to life in America: a memoir.
7. THE MILLIONAIRE MIND
by Thomas J. Stanley
Andrews McMeel
An analysis of the people who make up America's financial elite.
8. FROM DAWN TO DECADENCE
by Jacques Barzun. HarperCollins
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