FICTION
1.BOOK OF THE DEAD
by Patricia Cornwell
Putnam
The forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta opens a private practice in Charleston, South Carolina.
2. A LICK OF FROST<
by Laurell Hamilton
Ballantine
In the sixth Meredith Gentry paranormal romance, Meredith's wicked uncle presses charges against her guards.
3. PLAYING FOR PIZZA<
by John Grisham
Doubleday
An American third-string quarterback joins the Italian National Football League's Parma Panthers.
4. WORLD WITHOUT END<
by Ken Follett
Dutton
It's love and intrigue in Kingsbridge, the medieval English cathedral town at the center of Follett's Pillars of the Earth.
5. THE ALMOST MOON<
by Alice Sebold
Little, Brown
A woman murders her mother; from the author of The Lovely Bones.
6. 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.
7. A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS<
by Khaled Hosseini
Riverhead
A friendship between two women in Afghanistan against the backdrop of 30 years of war.
8. NOW AND THEN<
by Robert Parker
Putnam
What looked like a simple matrimonial case for a Boston private investigator turns out to involve a group that sponsors terrorists.
9. DARK OF THE MOON<
by John Sandford
Putnam
Virgil Flowers, a character from Invisible Prey, investigates three murders in a small Minnesota town.
10. 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.
11. PANDORA'S DAUGHTER<
by Iris Johansen
St Martin's
An Atlanta doctor discovers she is part of an ancient family of psychics and searches for the book of its secrets.
12. BRIDGE OF SIGHS<
by Richard Russo
Knopf
The entangled lives of an upstate New York couple and their best friend, from the author of Empire Falls.
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. 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.
5. THE AGE OF TURBULENCE<
by Alan Greenspan
Penguin Press
A memoir by the longtime chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.
6. FAIR GAME<
by Valerie Plame Wilson
Simon & Schuster
A former undercover CIA officer who was exposed by the Bush administration describes
her experience.
7. MUSICOPHILIA<
by Oliver Sachs
Knopf
A neurologist examines the interaction between music and the brain.
8. 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 last February.)
9. IF DEMOCRATS HAD ANY BRAINS, THEY'D BE REPUBLICANS<
by Ann Coulter
Crown Forum
A collection of the columnist's provocative quotations, some from previous books and interviews, some new.
10. THE NINE<
by Jeffrey Toobin
Doubleday
A portrait of the Supreme Court since the Reagan administration focuses on the influence of its moderates.
11. ESCAPE<
by Carolyn Jessop with Laura Palmer
Broadway
A former member of a fundamentalist polygamous sect describes her forced marriage to a much older man.
12. THE HEROIN DIARIES<
by Nikki Sixx with Ian Gittins
The Motley Crue bassist's record of a year of drug addiction.
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