FICTION
1. CELL
by Stephen King
Scribner
What remains of humanity fights to survive after a mysterious force scrambles cellphone users' brains.
2. MEMORY IN DEATH
by J.D. Robb
Putnam
Lieutenant Eve Dallas tracks the killer of a woman who was blackmailing her.
3. THE DA VINCI CODE
by Dan Brown
Doubleday
A murder at the Louvre leads to a trail of clues found in the work of Leonardo and to the discovery of a secret society.
4. THE HOSTAGE
by W.E.B. Griffin
Putnam
An Army officer probes the murder of an American diplomat and the kidnapping of his wife, whose brother is linked to the Iraq oil-for-food scandal.
5. THE LAST TEMPLAR
by Raymond Khoury
Dutton
A coding device stolen from an exhibit of Vatican artifacts may hold clues to the medieval Knights Templar's long-lost treasure and their secrets.
6. MARY, MARY
by James Patterson
Little, Brown
The FBI agent Alex Cross tracks a Hollywood killer who announces his crimes via e-mail.
7. S IS FOR SILENCE
by Sue Grafton
Marian Wood/Putnam
Kinsey Millhone searches for a woman who disappeared 34 years ago.
8. EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE
by Judith McNaught
Ballantine
When the grandson of a Chicago philanthropist disappears,
suspicion falls on the wrong man.
9. THE HUNT CLUB
by John Lescroart
Dutton
A private investigator, a homicide detective and their friends search for the murderer of a local judge.
10. THE CAT WHO DROPPED A BOMBSHELL
by Lilian Jackson Braun
Putnam
The columnist Jim Qwilleran and his cats investigate the mysterious death of a wealthy couple.
11. AT FIRST SIGHT
by Nicholas Sparks
Warner
The young couple from True Believer, who are now expecting a child, receive a disturbing message.
12. TURNING ANGEL
by Greg Iles
Scribner
To defend a friend wrongly accused of murder, a Mississippi lawyer must investigate the secret lives of local prep school students.
NONFICTION
1. MARLEY AND ME
by John Grogan
Morrow
A newspaper columnist and his wife learn some life lessons from their neurotic dog.
2. THE WORLD IS FLAT
by Thomas Friedman
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
A columnist for The New York Times analyzes 21st-century
economics and foreign policy and presents an overview
of globalization trends.
3. FOR LACI
by Sharon Rocha
Crown
Laci Peterson's mother recalls her daughter and describes her killer's trial.
4. MY FRIEND LEONARD
by James Frey
Riverhead
The author of A Million Little Pieces, which author and publisher acknowledge contains numerous fabrications, remembers a helpful mobster friend.
5. THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING
by Joan Didion
Knopf
The author's attempts to come to terms with the death of her husband and the grave illness of their only daughter.
6. FREAKONOMICS
by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
Morrow
A maverick scholar applies
economic thinking to everything from sumo wrestlers who cheat to legalized abortion and the
falling crime rate.
7. NIGHT
by Elie Wiesel
Hill & Wang
A new translation of an account of the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, first published in English in 1960.
8. TEACHER MAN
by Frank McCourt
Scribner
The author of Angela's Ashes remembers his years teaching high school English in New York City.
9. YOU'RE WEARING THAT?
by Deborah Tannen
Random House
How mothers and daughters communicate.
10. MONEY SECRETS
by Dave Barry
Crown
The humorist looks at personal finance.
11. OUR ENDANGERED VALUES
by Jimmy Carter.
Simon & Schuster
The former president warns against blurring politics and fundamentalist religion.
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