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FICTION

1. THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL

by Philippa Gregory

Touchstone

A tale of courtly intrigue starring King Henry VIII and Mary and Anne Boleyn.

2. NINETEEN MINUTES

by Jodi Picoult

Washington Square

The aftermath of a high-school shooting reveals the fault lines in a small New Hampshire town.

3. THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH

by Ken Follet

New American Library

Murder, arson and lust surround the building of a cathedral.

4. WATER FOR ELEPHANTS

by Sara Gruen

Algonquin

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

5. 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.

6. THE FRIDAY NIGHT KNITTING CLUB

by Kate Jacobs

Berkley

A group of women meet weekly at a New York City yarn shop.

7. THE KITE RUNNER

by Khaled Hosseini

Riverhead

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

8. ATONEMENT

by Ian McEwan

Anchor

A chronicle of the disintegration of an English family's idyllic life.

9. THE ROAD

by Cormac McCarthy

Vintage

A father and son travel in post-apocalypse America.

10. THE 6TH TARGET

by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro

Grand Central

Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club investigate the disappearance of several children in San Francisco.

11. 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.

12. OIL!

by Upton Sinclair

Penguin

Sinclair's 1927 novel of greed, corruption and class warfare during the Southern California oil boom.

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. THREE CUPS OF TEA

by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

Penguin

A former climber builds schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

3 THE AUDACITY OF HOPE

by Barack Obama

Three Rivers

The Illinois senator proposes that Americans move beyond their political divisions.

4. DREAMS FROM MY FATHER

by Barack Obama

Three Rivers

The senator on life as the son of a black African father and a white American mother.

5. 90 MINUTES IN HEAVEN

Don Piper with Cecil Murphey

Revell

A minister the experience he had after an accident.

6. THE INNOCENT MAN

by John Grisham

Delta and Dell

Grisham's first nonfiction book concerns a man wrongly sentenced to death.

7. INTO THE WILD

by Jon Krakauer

Anchor

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

8. THE GLASS CASTLE

by Jeannette Walls

Scribner

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

9. FAIRTAX: THE TRUTH

by Neal Boortz and John Linder with Rob Woodall

Harper

A radio host and a US congressman defend their 2005 plan for abolishing the IRS.

10. THE OMNIVORE'S DILEMMA

by Michael Pollan

Penguin

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

11. JOHN ADAMS

by David McCullough

Simon & Schuster

A biography of the country's first vice president and second president.

12. THE TIPPING POINT

by Malcolm Gladwell

Back Bay/Little, Brown

A study of social epidemics, otherwise known as fads.

13. THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY

by Jean-Dominique Bauby

Vintage

After a debilitating stroke, the editor of French Elle composed this memoir by communicating with his left eye.
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