FICTION
1. THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA
By Lauren Weisberger
Broadway
A young woman gets a job at a fashion magazine, and a difficult boss.
2. 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.
3. BLUE SMOKE
By Nora Roberts.
Jove
An arson investigator whose family suffered a fire when she was a child is menaced by a sociopath.
4. 4TH OF JULY
by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
Warner Vision
Detective Lindsay Boxer, a member of the Women’s Murder Club, looks into a series of killings while she herself is on trial.
5. ELEVEN ON TOP
by Janet Evanovich.
St. Martin’s
As she tries to quit bounty hunting, Stephanie Plum realizes a lunatic is stalking her.
6. BLACK WIND
by Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler
Berkley
Dirk Pitt and his children confront a villain who has acquired biotoxins from World War II.
7. ANGELS & DEMONS
by Dan Brown
Washington Square
A scholar tries to save the Vatican from the machinations of an underground society.
8. CORDINA’S ROYAL FAMILY: BENNETT & CAMILLA
by Nora Roberts
Silhouette
Reprints of two romances involving a prince and princess from the House of Bisset.
9. MIRACLE
by Danielle Steel
Dell
When a terrible storm hits Northern California, the lives of three people are changed forever.
10. THE JURY
by Fern Michaels.
Zebra
While one revenge mission is put off, the sisterhood takes on another: an abusive national security adviser.
11. THE MEMORY KEEPER'S DAUGHTER
by Kim Edwards
Penguin
A doctor's decision to secretly send his newborn daughter who has Down syndrome, to an institution haunts everyone involved.
12. SUMMER OF ROSES
by Luanne Rice
Bantam
The past re-enters the lives of two women and their daughters who fled abusive homes and found refuge in Nova Scotia.
NONFICTION
1. 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.
2. AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH
by Al Gore
Rodale
The former vice president sounds an alarm about global warming in this companion volume to the movie of the same title.
3. IN COLD BLOOD
by Truman Capote
Vintage
A savage murder in Kansas in 1959 and its consequences.
4. THE TIPPING POINT
by Malcolm Gladwell
Back Bay/Little, Brown
A journalist's study of social epidemics, otherwise known as fads.
5. THE GLASS CASTLE
by Jeannette Walls
Scribner
The author recalls a childhood during which she and her siblings were constantly moved.
6. 1776
by David McCullough
Simon & Schuster
An account of America's founding year focusing on the inexperienced George Washington and the heroic citizen soldiers.
7. MY FRIEND LEONARD
by James Frey
Riverhead
Both author and publisher acknowledge that this book about Frey’s helpful mobster friend contains numerous fabrications.
8. THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY
by Erik Larson
Vintage
The tale of an architect and a killer, linked by the Chicago World's Fair of 1893.
9. FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS
by James Bradley with Ron Powers. Bantam
The story of the six men who raised the flag at Iwo Jima.
10. GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL
by Jared Diamond
Norton
An argument that Western dominance is due to geographical advantages.
11. THE PLACES IN BETWEEN
by Rory Stewart
Harvest/Harcourt
The author recounts his walk across Afghanistan in the dead of winter, some of it through territory still under Taliban sway.
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