1 LIVE WIRE, by Harlan Coben. (Penguin Group.)
Myron Bolitar.s search for a missing rock star leads to questions
about his own missing brother.
2 WATER FOR ELEPHANTS, by Sara Gruen. (Algonquin.)
After his parents die in a car accident, a young veterinary student .
and an elephant . save a Depression-era circus.
3 THE LINCOLN LAWYER, by Michael Connelly. (Little, Brown.)
Routinely doing business from his Lincoln Town Cars, the bottom-
feeding attorney Mickey Haller is asked to defend the scion of
a wealthy family who might not be guilty of a murderous crime.
4 SING YOU HOME, by Jodi Picoult. (Simon & Schuster.)
Picoult takes on the issue of gay rights in this novel about a music
therapist who desperately wants a child.
5 TOYS, by James Patterson and Neil McMahon. (Little, Brown.)
Hays Baker, a top operative for the Agency of Change and a national
hero, suddenly finds himself a hunted fugitive who must fight to
save humans from extinction.
6 THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET.S NEST, by Stieg Larsson.
(Knopf Doubleday.) The third volume of the Millennium trilogy,
about a Swedish hacker and a journalist.
7 NIGHT ROAD, by Kristin Hannah. (St. Martin's.) Three teenagers
make a calamitous decision that changes the course of their lives.
8 THE SATURDAY BIG TENT WEDDING PARTY, by Alexander McCall Smith.
(Knopf Doubleday.) Precious Ramotswe, Botswana.s No. 1 Lady Detective,
is asked to investigate the killing of two cows at a remote cattle post.
9 LEAVING, by Karen Kingsbury. (Zondervan.) Bailey Flanigan is
determined to take advantage of a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to
audition for a Broadway show.
10 THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, by Stieg Larsson. (Knopf Doubleday.)
A hacker and a journalist investigate the disappearance of a Swedish
heiress 40 years earlier.
11 LOVE YOU MORE, by Lisa Gardner. (Random House.) Detective D. D. Warren
must solve the case of a dead husband, a battered wife and a missing child.
12 THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE, by Stieg Larsson. (Knopf Doubleday.)
In the second volume of the Millennium trilogy, a Swedish hacker becomes
a murder suspect.
13 CUTTING FOR STONE, by Abraham Verghese. (Knopf Doubleday.)
Twin brothers, conjoined at birth and then separated, grow up amid
the political turmoil of Ethiopia.
14 THE JUNGLE, by Clive Cussler with Jack Du Brul. (Penguin Group.)
Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon undertake rescue operations
from Afghanistan to Myanmar.
15 THE PARIS WIFE, by Paula McLain. (Random House.) Ernest Hemingway.s
first wife, Hadley, narrates this novel set in Paris.
16 A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES, by Deborah Harkness (Penguin Group)
17 BREAKING THE RULES, by Suzanne Brockmann (Random House)
18 A LESSON IN SECRETS, by Jacqueline Winspear (HarperCollins)
19 TICK TOCK, by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge (Little, Brown)
20 THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett (Penguin Group)
21 THE SHADOW OF YOUR SMILE, by Mary Higgins Clark (Simon & Schuster)
22 THE PEACH KEEPER, by Sarah Addison Allen (Random House)
23 CAUGHT, by Harlan Coben (Penguin Group)
24 THE TIGER.S WIFE, by Tea Obreht (Random House)
25 MINDING FRANKIE, by Maeve Binchy (Knopf Doubleday)
26 AN ENGAGEMENT IN SEATTLE, by Debbie Macomber (Harlequin)
27 COLD WIND, by C. J. Box (Penguin Group)
28 MIRANDA'S BIG MISTAKE, by Jill Mansell (Sourcebooks)
29 THE CONFESSION, by John Grisham (Knopf Doubleday)
30 THE WISE MAN.S FEAR, by Patrick Rothfuss (Penguin Group)
31 ROOM, by Emma Donoghue (Little, Brown)
32 HER LAST LETTER, by Nancy C. Johnson (Penwyck)
33 THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN, by Garth Stein (HarperCollins)
34 A GAME OF THRONES, by George R. R. Martin (Random House)
35 HEART OF THE MATTER, by Emily Giffin (St. Martin.s)
Nonfiction
1 HEAVEN IS FOR REAL, by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent. (Thomas Nelson.)
A father recounts his 3-year-old son.s encounter with Jesus and the angels
during an emergency appendectomy.
2 UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand. (Random House.) An Olympic runner.s
story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II.
3 THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS, by Rebecca Skloot. (Crown.)
The story of a woman whose cancer cells were extensively cultured without
her permission in 1951.
4 THE SOCIAL ANIMAL, by David Brooks. (Random House.) Brooks creates two
imaginary people, Harold and Erica, to illustrate his understanding of the
human mind, the wellsprings of action and the causes of success and failure.
5 MOONWALKING WITH EINSTEIN, by Joshua Foer. (Penguin Group.) A journalist
who covered a mnemonics championship tries competing himself.
6 RED, by Sammy Hagar with Joel Selvin. (HarperCollins.) Hagar tells of
his tear through rock, from his first break with Montrose to his role as
the front man of Van Halen.
7 UNFAMILIAR FISHES, by Sarah Vowell. (Penguin Group.) A wry look at
the odd and exceptional history of Hawaii.
8 PHYSICS OF THE FUTURE, by Michio Kaku. (Knopf Doubleday.) An examination
of innovative developments in medicine, computers, quantum physics and space
travel.
9 DECISION POINTS, by George W. Bush. (Crown.) The former president.s memoir
discusses his Christianity and the end of his drinking; his relationships with
members of his family; and critical White House decisions on 9/11, Iraq and
Katrina.
10 THE DRESSMAKER OF KHAIR KHANA, by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon. (HarperCollins.)
Aan unlikely Afghan entrepreneur who mobilized her community under the Taliban.
11 CLEOPATRA, by Stacy Schiff. (Little, Brown.) This biography portrays the
Macedonian-Egyptian queen in all her ambition, audacity and formidable
intelligence.
12 INSIDE OF A DOG, by Alexandra Horowitz. (Simon & Schuster.) What the world
is like from a dog.s point of view.
13 BLOOD, BONES, AND BUTTER, by Gabrielle Hamilton. (Random House.) A memoir
by the chef and owner of the Manhattan restaurant Prune.
14 JESUS OF NAZARETH, by Joseph Ratzinger. (Ignatius Press.) Pope Benedict XVI
challenges readers to grapple with the meaning of Jesus. life.
15 THE GLASS CASTLE, by Jeannette Walls. (Simon & Schuster.)
The author recalls a bizarre childhood during which she was constantly moved
from place to place.
16 THE INFORMATION, by James Gleick (Knopf Doubleday)
17 MY DAD SAYS, by Justin Halpern (HarperCollins)
18 THE BIG SHORT, by Michael Lewis (Norton)
19 BATTLE HYMN OF THE TIGER MOTHER, by Amy Chua (Penguin Group)
20 90 MINUTES IN HEAVEN, by Don Piper with Cecil Murphey (Baker)
21 LIFE, by Keith Richards with James Fox (Little, Brown)
22 LOST AND FOUND, by Geneen Roth (Penguin Group)
23 THE BOY WHO CAME BACK FROM HEAVEN, by Kevin Malarkey and Alex Malarkey
(Tyndale House)
24 OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown)
25 RAWHIDE DOWN, by Del Quentin Wilber (Holt)
26 MY HORIZONTAL LIFE, by Chelsea Handler (Bloomsbury)
27 THE KING.S SPEECH, by Mark Logue and Peter Conradi (Sterling)
28 FINISH FIRST, by Tucker Max (Simon & Schuster)
29 EAT, PRAY, LOVE, by Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin Group)
30 WILD BILL DONOVAN, by Douglas Waller (Simon & Schuster)
31 TOWNIE, by Andre Dubus III (Norton)
32 ARE YOU THERE, VODKA? IT'S ME, CHELSEA, by Chelsea Handler (Simon & Schuster)
33 I BEAT THE ODDS, by Michael Oher with Don Yaeger (Penguin Group)
34 JUST KIDS, by Patti Smith (HarperCollins)
35 IT GETS BETTER, edited by Dan Savage and Terry Miller (Penguin Group)
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