FICTION
1. THE DA VINCI CODE
by Dan Brown
Anchor
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. ANGELS & DEMONS
by Dan Brown
Pocket Star
A Harvard scholar tries to save the Vatican from the machinations of an underground society.
3. VELOCITY
by Dean Koontz
Bantam
A bartender becomes an
unwitting accomplice in choosing a serial killer's next victim.
4. A GOOD YARN
by Debbie Macomber
Mira
The lives and loves of women who meet at a knitting class.
5. BROKEN PREY
by John Sandford
Berkley
Lucas Davenport, working for the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, searches for a serial killer.
6. TRUE BELIEVER
by Nicholas Sparks
Warner
A hip young New Yorker finds love with a beautiful librarian who lives in North Carolina.
7. DECEPTION POINT
by Dan Brown
Pocket
An intelligence analyst is sent to the Arctic on a special
assignment by the White House.
8. MAP OF BONES
by James Rollins
Avon
An ancient secret society steals the bones of the Three Wise Men to accomplish a nefarious goal.
9. THE INNOCENT
by Harlan Coben
Signet
An ex-con who was unjustly sent to prison years earlier finds himself a suspect in a pair of murders.
10. NO PLACE LIKE HOME
by Mary Higgins Clark
Pocket
A woman who is trying to
conceal her past becomes the target of a killer.
11. DIGITAL FORTRESS
by Dan Brown
Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's
A cryptographer at the NSA breaks a mysterious code.
12. MARRIAGE MOST
SCANDALOUS
by Johanna Lindsey
Pocket
Romance and intrigue in early-19th-century England.
13. A WEDDING IN DECEMBER
by Anita Shreve
Back Bay
Seven friends reunite for a
wedding and remember the tragedy that drove them apart.
NONFICTION
1. IN COLD BLOOD
by Truman Capote
Vintage
A savage murder in Kansas in 1959 and its consequences.
2. THE COVENANT WITH BLACK AMERICA
Third World
Essays aimed at improving life for African-Americans, introduced by Tavis Smiley.
3. 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.
4. THE GLASS CASTLE
by Jeannette Walls
Scribner
The author, a contributor to MSNBC.com, recalls a bizarre childhood during which she and her siblings constantly moved house.
5. THE TIPPING POINT
by Malcolm Gladwell
Back Bay/Little, Brown
A journalist's study of social epidemics, otherwise known as fads.
6. EATS, SHOOTS & LEAVES
by Lynne Truss
Gotham
An Englishwoman expounds on the use and misuse of
punctuation marks.
7. THE FAIRTAX BOOK
by Neal Boortz and John Linder
ReganBooks/HarperCollins
A radio host and a US
congressman call for the
abolishment of the federal
income tax and the IRS.
8. THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY
by Erik Larson
Vintage
The tale of a great architect and a serial killer, who were linked by the Chicago World's Fair of 1893.
9. GARLIC AND SAPPHIRES
by Ruth Reichel
Penguin
The editor in chief of Gourmet relives her days as the
restaurant critic of the New
York Times.
10. MY LIFE SO FAR
by Jane Fonda
Random House
The autobiography of the Academy Award-winning actress, antiwar activist, and fitness guru.
11. THREE WEEKS WITH MY BROTHER
by Nicholas Sparks and Micah Sparks
Warner
The novelist and his sibling
describe their world trip.
12. UNDER THE BANNER OF HEAVEN
by Jon Krakauer
Anchor
The implications of the murder of a woman by two religious fundamentalists.
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