FICTION
1. THE ROAD
by Cormac McCarthy
Vintage
A father and son journey through post-apocalypse America.
2. SUSANNAH'S GARDEN
by Debbie Macomber
Mira
A woman returns to her hometown and re-examines the troubling events of her past.
3. THE FIFTH HORSEMAN
by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
Warner
Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club investigate unexplained deaths at a San Francisco hospital.
4. RAINTREE: INFERNO
by Linda Howard
Silhouette
A battle tests the loyalties and relationships of the Raintree clan, led by Dante, the king.
5. TWO LITTLE GIRLS IN BLUE
by Mary Higgins Clark
Pocket
A girl communicates telepathically with her kidnapped twin.
6. DEAD WATCH
by John Sandford
Berkley
A political operative investigates the murder of a former senator.
7. BORN IN DEATH
by J.D. Robb
Berkley
A lieutenant investigates the disappearance of a pregnant woman; by Nora Roberts, writing pseudonymously.
8. HOT STUFF
by Janet Evanovich and Leanne Banks
St. Martin's
When a bartender's apartment is ransacked, she turns to a former police officer for help — then falls in love with him.
9. 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.
10. AT RISK
by Patricia Cornwell
Berkley
A Massachusetts state investigator applies DNA and other forensic techniques to a cold murder case.
11. SUITE FRANCAISE
by Irene Nemirovsky
Vintage
Two novellas, discovered more than 50 years after the author's death at Auschwitz, about life in France under the Nazis
12. GONE
by Jonathan Kellerman
Ballantine
Two acting students stage their own disappearance — but one of them is murdered; the psychologist-detective Alex Delaware investigates.
NONFICTION
1. EAT, PRAY, LOVE
by Elizabeth Gilbert
Penguin Books
A writer's yearlong journey in search of self takes her to Italy, India and Indonesia.
2. THE MEASURE OF A MAN
by Sidney Poitier
HarperSanFrancisco
The movie actor's spiritual autobiography.
3. THE GLASS CASTLE
by Jeannette Walls
Scribner
The author recalls a bizarre childhood during which she and her siblings constantly moved.
4. BLINK
by Malcolm Gladwell
Back Bay
The author of The Tipping Point explores the importance of hunch and instinct to the workings of the mind.
5. THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING
by Joan Didion
Vintage
The author's attempt to come to terms with the death of her husband and the grave illness of their only daughter.
6. 90 MINUTES IN HEAVEN
by Don Piper with
Cecil Murphey
Revell
A minister describes the otherworldly experience he had after a car accident.
7. STUMBLING ON HAPPINESS
by Daniel Gilbert
Vintage
A Harvard professor explores why people can't predict what will make them happy.
8. 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.
9. THREE CUPS OF TEA
by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
Penguin Books
A former mountain climber builds schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
10. THE FREEDOM WRITERS DIARY
by the Freedom Writers with Erin Gruwell
Broadway
Students considered "unteachable" write about their lives: the basis for the movie Freedom Writers.
11. THE TIPPING POINT
by Malcolm Gladwell
Back Bay/Little, Brown
A journalist's study of social epidemics, otherwise known as fads.
12. MAYFLOWER
by Nathaniel Philbrick
Penguin Books
How America began, from the author of In the Heart of the Sea.
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