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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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