New York Times bestsellers

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FICTION
1. NORTHERN LIGHTS
by Nora Roberts
Jove
In Lunacy, Alaska, the new chief of police finds romance and investigates a murder.

2. LONDON BRIDGES
by James Patterson
Warner
The FBI agent Alex Cross
contends with two deadly enemies.

3. ECHOES
by Danielle Steel
Dell
During World War II, a Jewish woman and her daughter, a Carmelite nun, are trapped in Hitler's Europe.

4. TWISTED
by Jonathan Kellerman
Ballantine
A Los Angeles homicide detective searches for the perpetrator of a drive-by shooting.

5. THE COLORADO KID
by Stephen King
Hard Case Crime/Dorchester Publishing
An investigation into the death of a stranger on a Maine Island.

6. THE KITE RUNNER
by Khaled Hosseini
Riverhead
An Afghan-American returns to Kabul to learn how his childhood friend fared under the Taliban.

7. HOUR GAME
by David Baldacci
Warner
Two private investigators hunt for a murderer who duplicates the methods of notorious serial killers.

8. METRO GIRL
by Janet Evanovich
HarperTorch
A woman scours Florida and Cuba in search of her trouble-prone younger brother.

9. WICKED
by Gregory Maguire
ReganBooks HarperCollins
A little green-skinned girl grows up to become the Wicked Witch of the West.

10. UNEXPECTED BLESSINGS
by Barbara Taylor Bradford
St. Martin's
Continuing the story of the Harte family and its financial empire.

11. LIGHT ON SNOW
by Anita Shreve
Back Bay Books/Little, Brown
In the middle of a New England winter, a girl and her father come upon an abandoned baby.

12. IN HER SHOES
by Jennifer Weiner
Washington Square/Pocket Star
Two seemingly very different sisters discover all the things they have in common.

13. IT HAPPENED ONE AUTUMN
by Lisa KleypasbrP> Avon
In Victorian London, an American heiress catches the eye of an attractive aristocrat.
NONFICTION
1. A MILLION LITTLE PIECES
by James Frey
Anchor
A memoir by a man who was an alcoholic for 10 years and a crack addict for three.

2. THE TIPPING POINT
by Malcolm Gladwell
Back Bay/Little, Brown
A journalist's study of social epidemics, otherwise known as fads.

3. CHRONICLES: VOLUME ONE
by Bob Dylan
Simon and Schuster
Recollections and observations from the singer-songwriter.

4. THE PRIZE WINNER OF
DEFIANCE, OHIO
by Terry Ryan
Simon and Schuster/Pocket Star
A daughter's recollection of her mother, who helped support 10 children by winning contests.

5. GREEN RIVER, RUNNING RED
by Ann Rule
Pocket Star
The story of the Green River killer, who murdered dozens of women in the Pacific Northwest before he was captured in 2001.

6. THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY
by Erik Larson
Vintage
A great architect and a serial killer, linked by the Chicago World's Fair of 1893.

7. HOW TO TALK TO A LIBERAL (IF YOU MUST)
by Ann Coulter
Three Rivers
A collection of the columnist's writings about what's wrong with liberals.

8. NICKEL AND DIMED
by Barbara Ehrenreich
Metropolitan/Owl/Holt
A social critic reports on what it was like to become a member of the working poor.

9. READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN
by Azar Nafisi
Random House
A memoir of a teacher's life in Iran, centered on a women's reading group she organized.

10. THE LOST CHRONICLES
by Mark Cotta Vaz
Hyperion
A behind-the-scenes guide to the popular TV show, including a DVD.

11. MAGICAL THINKING
by Augusten Burroughs
Picador/St. Martin's Press
Life after rehab, from the author of Running With Scissors.

12. WILL IN THE WORLD
by Stephen Greenblatt
Norton
A Harvard humanities professor sets out to explain how Shakespeare became the greatest of all playwrights.

13. GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL
by Jared Diamond
Norton
An argument that Western dominance is a result of geographical advantages.