FICTION
1. THE 5TH HORSEMAN
by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
Little, Brown
Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club investigate unexplained deaths at a San Francisco hospital.
2. THE TENTH CIRCLE
by Jodi Picoult
Atria
When his teenage daughter is date-raped, a comic-book artist is overwhelmed by rage he thought he had buried with his past.
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 HOUSE
by Danielle Steel
Delacorte
A workaholic lawyer's life changes when she buys a crumbling mansion.
5. CELL
by Stephen King
Scribner
What remains of humanity fights to survive after a mysterious force scrambles cell phone users' brains.
6. THE TEMPLAR LEGACY
by Steve Berry
Ballantine
A former Justice Department operative becomes involved in a desperate search for the long-lost treasure and secrets of the medieval Knights Templar.
7. 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.
8. FALSE IMPRESSION
by Jeffrey Archer
St. Martin's
A murderous international
conspiracy swirls around a
stolen Van Gogh.
9. IN THE COMPANY OF THE COURTESAN
by Sarah Dunant
Random House
A courtesan and her friend and pimp, a dwarf, make their way in Renaissance Venice.
10. NIGHTLIFE
by Thomas Perry
Random House
A woman detective in Portland, Oregon, hunts a woman serial killer.
11. THE REBELS OF IRELAND
by Edward Rutherfurd
Doubleday
A story of six families against the sweep of Irish history from 1597 to 1922.
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.
3. 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.
4. YOU'RE WEARING THAT?
by Deborah Tannen
Random House
How mothers and daughters communicate.
5. BLINK
by Malcolm Gladwell
Little, Brown
The author of The Tipping Point explores the importance of hunch and instinct to the human mind.
6. MANHUNT
by James Swanson
Morrow
The 12-day pursuit of John Wilkes Booth after his assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
7. 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.
8. LEFT TO TELL
by Immaculee Ilibagiza with Steve Erwin
Hay House
How a woman found God after surviving the Rwandan genocide.
9. MISQUOTING JESUS
by Bart Ehrman
Harper-SanFrancisco,
How mistakes and changes by ancient scribes shaped the Bible
we use today.
10. THE BROTHERS BULGER
by Howie Carr
Warner
The story of two Massachusetts brothers, one a criminal, the other a politician.
11. TEAM OF RIVALS
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Simon & Schuster
The political genius of Abraham Lincoln, from the author of No Ordinary Time.
12. TEACHER MAN
by Frank McCourt
Scribner
The author remembers his years teaching English in New York City.
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