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FICTION

1. WORLD WITHOUT END

by Ken Follett

Dutton

Love and intrigue in Kingsbridge, the medieval English cathedral town at the center of the story.

2. PLAYING FOR PIZZA

by John Grisham

Doubleday

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

3. 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.

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. DARK OF THE MOON

by John Sandford

Putnam

Virgil Flowers, a character from Invisible Prey, investigates three murders in a small Minnesota town.

6. 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.

7. BRIDGE OF SIGHS

by Richard Russo

Knopf

The entangled lives of an update New York couple and their best friend, from the author of Empire Falls.

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; from the author of Bel Canto.

9. SHOOT HIM IF HE RUNS

by Stuart Woods

Putnam

A New York cop-turned-lawyer, tracks a rogue CIA agent on a Caribbean island.

10. 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.

11. THE GIFT

by Richard Paul Evans

Simon & Schuster

A child with leukemia has the gift of healing; from the author The Christmas Box.

12. FATAL REVENANT

by Stephen Donaldson

Putnam

Book two of The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, a fantasy saga.

NONFICTION

1. I AM AMERICA (AND SO CAN YOU!)

by Stephen Colbert et al

Grand Central

The wit and wisdom of the mock pundit of Comedy Central's Colbert Report.

2. CLAPTON

by Eric Clapton

Broadway Books

The great guitarist looks back on his life and his music.

3. MY GRANDFATHER'S SON

by Clarence Thomas

Harper

A memoir from an associate justice of the Supreme Court.

4. THE AGE OF TURBULENCE

by Alan Greenspan

Penguin Press

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

5. CELEBRITY DETOX

by Rosie O'Donnell

Grand Central

The TV star considers the "fame game" and its personal cost.

6. IF DEMOCRATS HAD ANY BRAINS, THEY'D BE REPUBLICANS

by Ann Coulter

Crown Forum

A collection of provocative quotations, some from previous books and interviews, some new.

7. THE DAY OF BATTLE

by Rick Atkinson

Holt

The American Army in Sicily and Italy, 1943-44; the second volume of the Liberation trilogy.

8. THE NINE

by Jeffrey Toobin

Doubleday

A portrait of the Supreme Court since the Reagan administration.

9. LOUDER THAN WORDS

by Jenny McCarthy

Dutton

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

10. THE WAR

by Geoffrey Ward

Knopf

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

11. QUIET STRENGTH

by Tony Dungy with Nathan Whitaker

Tyndale

A memoir by the first black coach to win a Super Bowl. (He did it with the Indianapolis Colts in February 2007.)

12. A LIFETIME OF SECRETS

by Frank Warren

Morrow

Still more postcard confessions from the PostSecret Project.

13. THE COLDEST WINTER

by David Halberstam

Hyperion

A history of the Korean War from the late author.
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