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FICTION

1. PLUM LUCKY

by Janet Evanovich

St Martin's

Stephanie's mother finds a bag of cash and goes gambling in Atlantic City, pursued by the money's owner.

2. A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS

by Khaled Hosseini

Riverhead

A friendship between two women in Afghanistan against the backdrop of 30 years of war and political turmoil.

3. PEOPLE OF THE BOOK

by Geraldine Brooks

Viking

A rare-book expert unlocks the secrets of a medieval manuscript.

4. BLASPHEMY

by Douglas Preston

Tom Doherty/Forge

A CIA operative tracks scientists with a huge supercollider who are poised to discover the secret of creation.

5. WORLD WITHOUT END

by Ken Follett

Dutton

Love and intrigue in Kingsbridge, the medieval English cathedral town at the center of Follett's Pillars of the Earth.

6. THE SHOOTERS

by W.E.B. Grittin

Putnam

An Army officer on the trail of a missing drug enforcement agent is undermined by the military and intelligence communities.

7. DOUBLE CROSS

by James Patterson

Little, Brown

Alex Cross and his new girlfriend, a police detective, confront a Washington killer who boasts of his killings on his own Web site, as well as an old adversary who has escaped from prison.

8. T IS FOR TRESPASS

by Sue Grafton

Putnam

Kinsey Millhone must contend with a woman who has stolen a nurse's identity in order to take advantage of Kinsey's elderly neighbor.

9. THE DARKEST EVENING OF THE YEAR

by Dean Koontz

Bantam

A woman who rescues golden retrievers and one special dog she takes in are shadowed by an evil stranger.

10. THE SENATOR'S WIFE

by Sue Miller

Knopf

A woman lives with her husband's persistent infidelity.

11. SHADOW MUSIC

by Julie Garwood

Ballantine

In medieval Scotland, a princess starts a Highlands war.

12. STONE COLD

by David Baldacci

Grand Central

Members of Washington's Camel Club are being murdered to prevent them from uncovering government secrets.

NONFICTION

1. IN DEFENSE OF FOOD

by Michel Pollan

Penguin Press

A manifesto urges us to "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."

2. 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.

3. AN INCONVENIENT BOOK

by Glenn Beck and Kevin Balfe

Threshold Editions

The conservative TV and talk-radio host offers his solutions to problems, including global warming and poverty.

4. MEMO TO THE PRESIDENT ELECT

by Madeleine Albright with Bill Woodward

Harper

A former secretary of state suggests how to restore America's credibility.

5. BORN STANDING UP

by Steve Martin

Scribner

Martin recalls his years as a stand-up comedian, from the early 1960s to 1981, when he quit at the peak of his career.

6. 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.)

7. FREE LUNCH

by David Cay Johnston

Portfolio

How lobbyists and lawyers have wangled government subsidies for the wealthy.

8. GEOGRAPHY OF BLISS

by Eric Weiner

Twelve

A writer explores to what degree an individual's happiness is intertwined with a shared geography and culture.

9. THE NINE

by Jeffrey Toobin

Doubleday

A portrait of the Supreme Court since the Reagan administration focuses on the influence of its moderates

10. LIBERAL FASCISM

by Jonah Goldberg

Doubleday

This "alternative history of American liberalism reveals its roots in, and commonalities with, classical fascism."

11. A LONG WAY GONE

by Ishmael Beah

Sarah Crichton/Farrar, Straus and Giroux

A former child soldier from Sierra Leone describes his drug-crazed killing spree and his return to humanity.

12. LONE SURVIVOR

by Marcus Luttrell with Patrick Robinson

Little, Brown

The tale of a Navy SEAL operation in Afghanistan.
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