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FICTION

1. THE APPEAL

by John Grisham

Doubleday

Political and legal intrigue ensue when a Mississippi court decides against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste.

2. STRANGERS IN DEATH

by J.D. Robb

Putnam

Lieutenant Eve Dallas investigates a businessman's scandalous death; by Nora Roberts, under a pseudonym.

3. 7TH HEAVEN

by James Patterson and

Maxine Paetro

Little, Brown

In San Francisco, Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club hunt for an arsonist and a missing teenager.

4. LADY KILLER

by Lisa Scottoline

Harper

When her high-school rival disappears, possibly as a result of foul play; a Philadelphia lawyer must confront her past.

5. DUMA KEY

by Stephen King

Scribner

A Minnesota contractor moves to Florida to recover from an injury and begins to create paintings with mysterious power.

6. A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS

by Khaled Hosseini

Riverhead

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

7. 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.

8. THE KILLING GROUND

by Jack Higgins

Putnam

A spy helps a man whose family has terrorist ties.

9. STRANGER IN PARADISE

by Robert Parker

Putnam

Jesse Stone, the police chief of Paradise, Massachusetts, must protect a hit man's intended victim.

10. THE FIRST PATIENT

by Michael Palmer

St Martin's

When he becomes doctor to his old friend the president, a country physician discovers a conspiracy to kill him.

11. PEOPLE OF THE BOOK

by Geraldine Brooks

Viking

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

12. PLUM LUCKY

by Janet Evanovich

St Martin's

Stephanie's grandmother finds a bag of cash and goes gambling in Atlantic City.

NONFICTION

1. LIBERAL FASCISM

by Jonah Goldberg

Doubleday

This "alternative history of American liberalism reveals its roots in classical fascism."

2. IN DEFENSE OF FOOD

by Michael Pollan

Penguin Press

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

3. THE AGE OF AMERICAN UNREASON

by Susan Jacoby

Pantheon

Are Americans hostile to knowledge?

4. RECONCILIATION

by Benazir Bhutto

Harper/HarperCollins

A posthumous look at Islam, democracy and the West, by Pakistan's former prime minister.

5. PREDICTABLY IRRATIONAL

by Dan Ariely

Harper

An MIT behavioral economist shows how emotions and social norms systematically shape our behavior.

6. 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.

7. AN INCONVENIENT BOOK

by Glenn Beck and Kevin Balfe

Threshold Editions

Beck's solutions to problems including global warming and political correctness.

8. REAL CHANGE

by Newt Gingrich with Vince Haley and Rick Tyler

Regnery

How to build a better America, from the former speaker of the House.

9. GOD'S PROBLEM

by Bart Ehrman

HarperOne

A scholar examines the Bible's contradictory pronouncements on the meaning of suffering.

10. MANIC

by Terri Cheney

Morrow

A memoir of life with bipolar disorder.

11. THE REASON FOR GOD

by Timothy Keller

Dutton

A minister addresses common doubts and defends faith in a Christian God.

12. SEND YOURSELF ROSES

by Kathleen Turner with Gloria Feldt

Springboard

A leading lady's life.

13. THIS REPUBLIC OF SUFFERING

by Drew Gilpin Faust

Knopf

The impact of the Civil War's enormous death toll, from the new president of Harvard.
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