FICTION
1. BLOOD BROTHERS
by Nora Roberts
Jove
Three friends in the town of Hawkins Hollow and an author in search of a story unite against an eerie terror.
2. 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.
3. NEXT
by Michael Crichton
Harper/HarperCollins
The author of Jurassic Park describes a not-too-distant future when genetic engineering runs amok.
4. CROSS
by James Patterson
Grand Central
Alex Cross, retired from the FBI, has a chance to track a rapist who may have murdered his wife.
5. THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH
by Ken Follet
Signet
Murder, arson and lust surround the building of a 12th century cathedral; a reprint of the 1989 novel.
6. PS, I LOVE YOU
by Cecelia Ahern
Hyperion
A young widow performs a series of tasks laid out in a package of letters written by her husband.
7. ATONEMENT
by Ian McEwan
Anchor
A chronicle of the disintegration of an English family's idyllic life.
8. THE ALEXANDRIA LINK
by Steve Berry
Ballantine
A Justice Department operative turned bookseller hides a link to the secrets of the library of Alexandria from international thugs.
9. BROTHER ODD
by Dean Koontz
Bantam
With his ability to see the spirits of the dead, Odd Thomas heads off a catastrophe at a monastery.
10. THE HUNTERS
by W.E.B. Griffin
Jove
An Army officer seeks the killers of a shady American diplomat murdered in Uruguay.
11. TREASURE OF KHAN
by Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler
Berkley
Dirk Pitt confronts a murderous Mongolian tycoon.
12. WILD FIRE
by Nelson DeMille
Vision
Detective John Corey and his wife, an FBI agent, help to foil a nuclear plot against the United States.
NONFICTION
1. EAT, PRAY, LOVE
by Elizabeth Gilbert
Penguin Books
A writer's yearlong journey in search of self.
2. THE INNOCENT MAN
by John Grisham
Delta
Grisham's first non-fiction book concerns a man wrongly sentenced to death.
3. THREE CUPS OF TEA
by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
Penguin Books
A former climber builds schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
4. INTO THE WILD
by Jon Krakauer
Anchor
A man's obsession with the wilderness ends in tragedy.
5. 90 MINUTES IN HEAVEN
by Don Piper with Cecil
Murphey
Revell
A minister on the otherworldly experience he had after an accident.
6. CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR
by George Crile
Grove
A chronicle, by a veteran producer for 60 Minutes, of a congressman's efforts in the 1980s to steer billions to the anti-Soviet side in Afghanistan.
7. TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE
by Mitch Albom
Broadway
The author tells of his visits to his old college mentor.
8. CULTURE WARRIOR
by Bill O'Reilly
Broadway
The O'Reilly Factor host describes a culture war between traditionalists and secular progressives.
9. THE GLASS CASTLE
by Jeannette Walls
Scribner
The author recalls a bizarre childhood during which she and her siblings constantly moved.
10. THE OMNIVORE'S DILEMMA
by Michael Pollan
Penguin
Tracking dinner from the soil to the plate, a journalist juggles appetite and conscience.
11. THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON MUSIC
by Daniel J. Levitin
Plume
A rocker-turned-neuroscientist on the connection between music and human nature.
12. THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE THUNDERBOLT KID
by Bill Bryson
Broadway
A memoir of growing up in 1950s Des Moines.
13. THE WORLD IS FLAT
by Thomas L. Friedman
Picador
An updated edition of the writer's analysis of 21st-century economics and foreign policy.
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