FICTION
1. 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.
2. PRIOR BAD ACTS
by Tami Hoag
Bantam
Two Minneapolis detectives search for a judge who has been kidnapped while trying a murder case.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. THE HOUSE
by Danielle Steel
Delacorte
A workaholic lawyer's life changes when she buys a crumbling
mansion.
6. DIRTY BLONDE
by Lisa Scotttoline
HarperCollins
When the plaintiff murders the defendant in a case she has just tried, a judge's secret life becomes public.
7. THE TEMPLAR LEGACY
by Steve Berry
Ballantine
A former US Justice Department operative becomes involved in a desperate search for the long-lost treasure and secrets of the medieval Knights Templar.
8. THE SECRET SUPPER
by Javier Sierra
Atria
Clues in The Last Supper reveal Da Vinci's heretical beliefs.
9. A DIRTY JOB
by Christopher Moore
Morrow
A San Francisco store owner becomes a death merchant,
assigned to collect the souls of the recently dead to protect them from the dark forces.
10. CELL
by Stephen King
Scribner
What remains of humanity fights to survive after a mysterious force scrambles cell phone
users' brains.
11. 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.
NONFICTION
1. MARLEY & ME
by John Grogan
Morrow
A newspaper columnist and his wife learn some life lessons from their neurotic dog.
2. AMERICAN THEOCRACY
by Kevin Phillips
Viking
A former Republican strategist warns against the dangers of
religious zealotry, oil depen-dence and ballooning public and private debt.
3. GAME OF SHADOWS
by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams
Gotham
How a San Francisco laboratory supplied steroids to many elite baseball players.
4. COBRA II
by Michael Gordon and Bernard Trainor
Pantheon
A definitive account of the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq.
5. 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.
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. MISQUOTING JESUS
by Bart Ehrman
Harper-San Francisco
How mistakes and changes by ancient scribes shaped the Bible we use today.
8. LEFT TO TELL
by Immaculee Ilibagiza with Steve Erwin
Hay House
How a woman found God after surviving the atrocities of the Rwandan genocide.
9. BLINK
by Malcolm Gladwell
Little, Brown
The author of The Tipping Point explores the importance of hunch and instinct to the workings of the mind.
10. MANHUNT
by James Swanson
Morrow
The 12-day pursuit of John Wilkes Booth after he assassinated former US president Abraham Lincoln.
11. A YEAR IN THE WORLD
by Frances Mayes
Broadway
Travels around the Mediterranean with the author of Under the Tuscan Sun.
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