FICTION
1. 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.
2. LIFEGUARD
by James Patterson and Andrew Gross
Warner
Things go awry when a lifeguard at a Florida resort agrees to take part in a heist.
3. FAITHLESS
by Karin Slaughter
Dell
The medical examiner Sara Linton is on the trail of a killer who buries teenage girls alive.
4. BORN TO BE WILD
by Catherine Coulter
Jove
After she is nearly killed by a hit-and-run driver, an actress takes time off to visit to her relatives in Oregon, but the attempts on her life have not ended.
5. DANGEROUS
by Nora Roberts
Silhouette
Reprints of three novels, Risky Business, Storm Warning and The Welcoming.
6. CHILL FACTOR
by Sandra Brown
Pocket
A successful magazine editor is trapped in her remote cabin with a man believed to be a serial killer.
7. THE LINCOLN LAWYER
by Michael Connelly
Warner
A criminal defense attorney takes a case that proves more dangerous than he expected.
8. THE KITE RUNNER
by Khaled Hosseini
Riverhead
An Afghan-American returns to Kabul to learn how a friend has fared under the Taliban.
9. THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA
by Lauren Weisberger
Broadway
A young woman gets a job at a fashion magazine, and a difficult boss.
10. TWICE KISSED
by Lisa Jackson
Zebra
As she searches for her identical twin sister, a woman uncovers some dark family secrets.
11. 6 RAINIER DRIVE
by Debbie Macomber
Mira
A fire in Cedar Grove destroys Justine and Seth’s restaurant and threatens their marriage.
12. THE ALCHEMIST
by Paulo Coelho
HarperSanFrancisco
An inspirational tale about the lessons a Spanish shepherd boy learns during his travels to Egypt in search of treasure.
NONFICTION
1. RUNNING WITH SCISSORS
by Augusten Burroughs
Picador
In the 1970s, a young boy lives with a crazy psychiatrist in a squalid household.
2. 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.
3. THE GLASS CASTLE
by Jeannette Walls
Scribner
The author recalls a childhood during which she and her siblings were constantly moved.
4. 1776
by David McCullough
Simon & Schuster
An account of America’s founding year focusing on the inexperienced George Washington and the heroic citizen soldiers.
5. AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH
by Al Gore
Rodale
The former US vice president sounds an alarm about global warming in this companion volume to the movie of the same title.
6. THE 9/11 REPORT
by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon
Hill & Wang
A graphic adaptation of the 2004 commission report on terrorist attacks.
7. THE TIPPING POINT
by Malcolm Gladwell
Back Bay/Little, Brown
A journalist’s study of social epidemics, otherwise known as fads.
8. THE TENDER BAR
by J.R. Moehringer
Hyperion
A coming-of-age memoir of a fatherless boy for whom the regulars at a Long Island saloon become a substitute family.
9. 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.
10. TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE
by Mitch Albom
Broadway
The author tells of his visits to his old college mentor.
11. GUNS, GERMS AND STEEL
by Jared Diamond
Norton
An argument that Western dominance is due to
geographical advantages.
12. IN COLD BLOOD
by Truman Capote
Vintage
A family’s murder in Kansas in 1959 and its consequences.
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