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FICTION

1. LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Vintage International

A Colombian poet's love for a woman is tested.

2. WATER FOR ELEPHANTS

by Sara Gruen

Algonquin

A young man and an elephant save a Depression-era circus.

3. THE KITE RUNNER

by Khaled Hosseini

Riverhead

An Afghan-American returns to Kabul to learn how a friend has fared under the Taliban.

4. MIDDLESEX

by Jeffrey Eugenides

Picador

An epic story about three generations of Greek-Americans, told by an hermaphrodite.

5. 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.

6. THE EMPEROR'S CHILDREN

by Claire Messud

Vintage

Privileged 30-somethings try to make their way in literary New York just before Sept. 11.

7. SUITE FRANCAISE

by Irene Nemirovsky

Vintage

Two novellas, which came to light more than 50 years after the author's death at Auschwitz, about life in France under the Nazis.

8. THE PARTING

by Beverly Lewis

Bethany House

A rift in an Amish community threatens to keep a courting couple apart.

9. THE ALCHEMIST

by Paulo Coelho

HarperSanFrancisco

A tale about the lessons a Spanish shepherd boy learns during his travels to Egypt in search of treasure.

10. THE ROAD

by Cormac McCarthy

Vintage

A father and son travel in post-apocalypse America.

11. THE BOLEYN INHERITANCE

by Philippa Gregory

Touchstone

Politics and treachery in the court of King Henry VIII.

12. SNOW FLOWER AND THE

SECRET FAN

by Lisa See

Random House

The lives of two women in 19th-century China.

13. DEAR JOHN

by Nicholas Sparks,

Warner

An unlikely romance between a soldier and an idealistic young woman is tested in the aftermath of Sept. 11.

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. INTO THE WILD

by Jon Krakauer

Anchor

How a young man's obsession with the wilderness had a tragic end.

3. 90 MINUTES IN HEAVEN

by Don Piper with Cecil Murphey

Revell

A minister on the otherworldly experience he had after an accident.

4. 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.

5. THREE CUPS OF TEA

by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

Penguin Books

A former climber builds schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

6. THE WORLD IS FLAT

by Thomas Friedman

Picador

An updated edition of the New York Times columnist's analysis of 21st-century economics and foreign policy.

7. THE LIFE AND TIMES OF

THE THUNDERBOLT KID

by Bill Bryson

Broadway

The author, who as a child in Iowa dreamed he was a superhero, uses this persona to bring to life 1950s Des Moines.

8. THUNDERSTRUCK

by Erik Larson

Three Rivers

Intertwined stories of early-20th-century murder and scientific intrigue.

9. AN UNQUIET MIND

by Kay Redfield Jamison

Vintage

A professor of psychiatry recalls her struggle with manic depression.

10. THE OMNIVORE'S DILEMMA

by Michael Pollan

Penguin

Tracking dinner from the soil to the plate, a journalist juggles appetite and conscience.

11. THE TIPPING POINT

by Malcolm Gladwell

Back Bay/Little, Brown

A journalist's study of social epidemics, otherwise known as fads.

12. THE LOOMING TOWER

by Lawrence Wright

Vintage

The road to Sept. 11 as seen through the lives of terrorist planners and the FBI counterterrorism chief who died in the attacks.
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