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    [NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERS]


    NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE
    Sunday, Dec 02, 2007, Page 18

    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. THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH

    by Ken Follet

    New American Library

    Murder, arson and lust surround the building of a 12th- century cathedral.

    3. WATER FOR ELEPHANTS

    by Sara Gruen

    Algonquin

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

    4. THE KITE RUNNER

    by Khaled Hosseini

    Riverhead

    An Afghan-American returns to Kabul to learn how a childhood friend has fared.

    5. HALO: CONTACT HARVEST

    by Joseph Staten

    Tom Doherty Associates

    A squad of marines and militia trainees is called to save a farming colony threatened by an aggressive alien empire.

    6. 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.

    7. NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN

    by Cormac McCarthy

    Vintage

    Mayhem ensues in this reissued novel after a West Texas man stumbles upon US$2 million in drug money - and decides to keep it.

    8. THE ROAD

    by Cormac McCarthy

    Vintage

    A father and son travel in post-apocalypse America.

    9. THE THIRTEENTH TALE

    by Diane Setterfield

    Washington Square

    A biographer struggles to discover the truth about an aging writer who has mythologized her past.

    10. 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.

    11. I AM LEGEND

    by Richard Matheson

    Tor/Tom Doherty

    In this reissued horror novel, plague survivors, turned into vampires, seek to destroy the one man who appears immune to the disease.

    12. SUITE FRANCAISE

    by Irene Nemirovsky

    Vintage

    Two novellas, which came to light more than 50 years after the author's death at Auschwitz.

    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

    A man's obsession with the wilderness ends in tragedy.

    3. THREE CUPS OF TEA

    by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

    Penguin Books

    A former climber builds schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

    4. 90 MINUTES IN HEAVEN

    by Don Piper with Cecil Murphey

    Revell

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

    5. THE GLASS CASTLE

    by Jeannette Walls

    Scribner

    The author recalls a bizarre childhood during which she and her siblings were moved constantly.

    6. TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE

    by Mitch Albom

    Broadway

    The author tells of his visits to his old college mentor.

    7. THE OMNIVORE'S DILEMMA

    by Michael Pollan

    Penguin

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

    8. THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE THUNDERBOLT KID

    by Bill Bryson

    Broadway

    A memoir of growing up in 1950s Des Moines.

    9. THE WORLD IS FLAT

    by Thomas L. Friedman

    Picador

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

    10. THE TIPPING POINT

    by Malcolm Gladwell

    Back Bay/Little, Brown

    A study of social epidemics, otherwise known as fads.

    11. BLINK

    by Malcolm Gladwell

    Back Bay/Little Brown

    The importance of instinct to the workings of the mind.

    12. THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON

    MUSIC

    by Daniel J. Levitin

    Plume

    A rocker-turned-neuroscientist on the connection between music and human nature.

    13. I HOPE THEY SERVE BEER IN HELL

    by Tucker Max

    Citadel

    Reflections of a self-absorbed,

    drunken womanizer.
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