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FICTION

1. LEAN MEAN THIRTEEN

by Janet Evanovich

St. Martin's

The New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum becomes a suspect when her ex-husband disappears.

2. A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS

by Khaled Hosseini

Riverhead

A friendship between two women in Afghanistan against the backdrop of 30 years of war.

3. BLAZE

by Richard Bachman

Scribner

An early Stephen King novel - Bachman is his alias - here revised. A criminal who was an abused child plots a kidnapping.

4. DOUBLE TAKE

by Catherine Coulter

Putnam

Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock - FBI agents as well as husband and wife - join with a San Francisco colleague to solve a murder and find a missing woman.

5. THE NAVIGATOR

by Clive Cussler with Paul Kemprecos

Putnam

Kurt Austin and his crack team track down a stolen Phoenician statue.

6. THE GOOD GUY

by Dean Koontz

Bantam

In a case of mistaken identity, an ordinary man finds himself at the center of a murder plot.

7. THE OVERLOOK

by Michael Connelly

Little, Brown

The Los Angeles detective Harry Bosch tangles with the FBI and Homeland Security as he tries to solve the case of a murdered physicist who had access to radioactive materials.

8. THE HARLEQUIN

by Laurell Hamilton

Berkley

The vampire hunter Anita Blake is under surveillance by a troop of vampire enforcers.

9. ON CHESIL BEACH

by Ian McEwan

Nan Talese

A wedding night goes terribly wrong.

10. THE 6TH TARGET

by James Patterson and

Maxine Paetro

Little, Brown

In San Francisco, children are disappearing, and Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club investigate.

11. FOR ONE MORE DAY

by Mitch Albom

Hyperion

A troubled man gets a last chance to reconnect and restore his relationship with his dead mother.

12. THE BOURNE BETRAYAL

by Eric Van Lustbader

Warner

Continuing the story of Robert Ludlum's character Jason Bourne, who tangles with a group of diabolical Islamic terrorists.

NONFICTION

1. THE DIANA CHRONICLES

by Tina Brown

Doubleday

The Princess of Wales' romance with the media.

2. THE REAGAN DIARIES

by Ronald Reagan. (Edited by Douglas Brinkley

HarperCollins

Selections from the 40th president's daily diary entries written during his time in the White House.

3. THE ASSAULT ON REASON

by Al Gore

Penguin Press

How the Bush administration has degraded the political environment through secrecy, fear and the rejection of fact-based reasoning.

4. GOD IS NOT GREAT

by Christopher Hitchens

Twelve

Religion as a malignant force in the world.

5. OUTRAGE

by Dick Morris with Eileen

McGann

HC/HarperCollins

An attack on illegal immigration, UN profiteers, lazy congressmen and high drug prices.

6. LONE SURVIVOR

by Marcus Luttrell with Patrick Robinson

Little, Brown

The only survivor of a Navy Seal operation in northern Afghanistan describes the battle, his comrades and his courageous escape.

7. EINSTEIN

by Walter Isaacson

Simon & Schuster

A biography based on newly released personal letters.

8. A LONG WAY GONE

by Ishmael Beah

Sarah Crichton/Farrar, Straus & Giroux

A former child soldier from Sierra Leone describes his drug-crazed killing spree and his return to humanity.

9. PRESIDENTIAL COURAGE

by Michael Beschloss

Simon & Schuster

Profiles of nine presidents who had the courage to make unpopular decisions.

10. ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MIRACLE

by Barbara Kingsolver with Steven Hopp and Camille Kingsolver

HarperCollins

The novelist and her family spend a year eating homegrown or local food; an argument for diversified farms and sustainable agriculture.

11. TALES FROM Q SCHOOL

by John Feinstein

Little, Brown

Inside the 2005 PGA Tour Qualifying Tournament, from the author of A Good Walk Spoiled.

12. I FEEL BAD ABOUT MY NECK

by Nora Ephron

Knopf

A witty look at aging from a novelist and screenwriter of When Harry Met Sally.
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