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FICTION

1. PLAYING FOR PIZZA

by John Grisham

Doubleday

An American third-string quarterback joins the Italian National Football League's Parma Panthers.

2. THE CHOICE

by Nicholas Sparks

Grand Central

How the choices made by a North Carolina man and the neighbor with whom he falls in love play out their lives.

3. YOU'VE BEEN WARNED

by James Patterson and Howard Roughan

Little, Brown

An aspiring photographer working as a nanny and in love with the children's father has terrible visions.

4. A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS

by Khaled Hosseini

Riverhead

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

5. SHOOT HIM IF HE RUNS

by Stuart Woods

Putnam

Stone Barrington, the New York cop turned lawyer, tracks a rogue CIA agent on a Caribbean island.

6. BRIDGE OF SIGHS

by Richard Russo

Knopf

The entangled lives of an upstate New York couple and their best friend.

7. THE ORC KING

by R.A. Salvatore

Wizards of the Coast

The dark elf Drizzt Do'Urden seeks vengeance against the orcs in the first book of a new fantasy trilogy, Transitions.

8. RUN

by Ann Patchett

Harper

Two young black men, adopted in childhood by the former mayor of Boston, encounter their birth mother and sister.

9. DEAD HEAT

by Dick Francis and Felix Francis

Putnam

Someone is out to destroy a young chef's Newmarket restaurant, poisoning food and setting off a bomb.

10. MAKING MONEY

by Terry Pratchett

Harper

In this Discworld fantasy, Moist von Lipwig takes over Ankh-Morpork's Royal Mint.

11. THE BONE GARDEN

by Tess Gerritsen

Ballantine

A woman finds a skull in her garden, while in the 1830s, a medical student tracks a killer.

12. GARDEN SPELLS

by Sara Addison Allen

Bantam

Two sisters overcome their differences and claim their heritage when one returns to their North Carolina home.

NONFICTION

1. THE AGE OF TURBULENCE

by Alan Greenspan

Penguin Press

A memoir by the longtime chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.

2. THE NINE

by Jeffrey Toobin

Doubleday

A portrait of the Supreme Court since the Reagan administration focuses on the influence of its moderates.

3. LOUDER THAN WORDS

by Jenny McCarthy

Dutton

A mother deals with her son's autism and struggles to find treatment.

4. THE COLDEST WINTER

by David Halberstam

Hyperion

A history of the Korean War from the author of The Best and the Brightest, who died earlier this year.

5. IF I DID IT

by the Goldman family

Beaufor

O.J. Simpson's "hypothetical" confession to the murder of his wife, Nicole, and Ron Goldman.

6. THE VIXEN DIARIES

by Karrine Steffans

Grand Central

How the author's life changed after the publication of her first book, Confessions of a Video Vixen.

7. POWER TO THE PEOPLE

by Laura Ingraham

Regnery

The political commentator urges Americans to restore traditional conservative principles.

8. THE WAR

by Geoffrey Ward

Knopf

A companion to the seven-part PBS documentary directed by Ken Burns, with hundreds of photographs.

9. THE HEROIN DIARIES

by Nikki Sixx with Ian Gittins

Pocket

The Motley Crue bassist's record of a year of drug addiction.

10. GIVING

by Bill Clinton

Knopf

The former US president describes people and projects that save lives and solve problems around the world.

11. MOTHER TERESA: COME BE MY LIGHT

by Mother Teresa

Doubleday

Writings and reflections on her spiritual journey.

12. QUIET STRENGTH

by Tony Dungy with Nathan Whitaker

Tyndale

A memoir by the first black coach to win a Super Bowl.
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