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. CELL
by Stephen King
Pocket Star
What remains of humanity fights to survive after a mysterious force scrambles cell-phone user's brains.
3. THE TENTH CIRCLE
by Jodi Picoult
Washington Square
When his teenage daughter is date-raped, a comic-book artist is overwhelmed by rage.
4. VALLEY OF SILENCE
by Nora Roberts
Jove
The circle of six goes into battle to save humans from the vampire Lilith in the final Circle Trilogy book.
5. FOREVER ODD
by Dean Koontz
Bantam
Odd Thomas, a character from Koontz's 2003 novel of the same name, searches for a missing friend.
6. THE AMBLER WARNING
by Robert Ludlum
St. Martin's
A former clandestine operative escapes from a government psychiatric prison and tries to re-establish his identity.
7. THE CHRISTMAS THIEF
by Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark
Pocket
Hidden treasure lies within the branches of a giant blue spruce destined for Rockefeller Center.
8. THANKSGIVING
by Janet Evanovich
HarperTorch
A re-released holiday romance.
9. DANCE OF THE GODS
by Nora Roberts
Jove
Six otherworldly fighters prepare to battle the vampire Lilith in this second installment in the Circle Trilogy.
10. MARY, MARY
by James Patterson
Warner Vision
Agent Alex Cross tracks a Hollywood killer who announces the crimes via e-mail.
11. TURNING ANGEL
by Greg Iles
Pocket
To defend a friend wrongly accused of murder, a Mississippi lawyer must investigate local students.
12. MORRIGAN'S CROSS
by Nora Roberts
Jove
A sorcerer gathers five warriors to help him battle a vampire who lured his twin to the dark side.
NONFICTION
1. RUNNING WITH SCISSORS
by Augusten Burroughs
Picador
In the 1970s, a young boy lives with a crazy psychiatrist.
2. FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS
by James Bradley with Ron Powers
Bantam
The story of the six men who raised the flag at Iwo Jima.
3. THE GLASS CASTLE
by Jeannette Walls
Scribner
The author recalls a bizarre childhood during which she and her siblings were constantly moved from one bleak place to another.
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4. THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS
by Chris Gardner with Quincy Troupe and Mim Eichler Rivas
Amistad/HarperCollins
Gardner's life story, from a grim childhood to homelessness to, finally, the success he had long sought; the basis for a movie of the same title.
5. 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.
6. 90 MINUTES IN HEAVEN
by Don Piper with Cecil Murphey
Revell
A Baptist minister describes the otherworldly experience he had after a car accident.
7. DREAMS FROM MY FATHER
by Barack Obama
Three Rivers
The Democratic senator from Illinois reflects on life as the son of a black African father and white American mother.
8. TEACHER MAN
by Frank McCourt
Scribner
The author of Angela's Ashes remembers his years teaching high school English in New York City.
9. TEAM OF RIVALS
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Simon & Schuster
The political genius of former US president Abraham Lincoln.
10. AMERICA (THE BOOK)
by Jon Stewart, Ben Karlin, David Javerbaum et al
Warner
The Daily Show offers an illustrated parody of a civics text.
11. 1776
by David McCullough
Simon & Schuster
An account of America's founding year focusing on the inexperienced George Washington and the heroic citizen soldiers.
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