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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