Fiction Hardcover
1. COLD MOUNTAIN
By Charles Frazier (Atlantic Monthly Press $24)
A wounded Civil War soldier’s painstaking odyssey to be reunited with the woman he loves.
2. THE WINNER
By David Baldacci (Warner $25)
A single mom becomes part of a crooked lottery scheme.
3. CAT & MOUSE
By James Patterson (Little, Brown $24.95)
Alex Cross (“Kiss the Girls”) crosses paths with an old nemesis, Gary Soneji.
4. A CERTAIN JUSTICE
By P.D. James (Knopf $25)
Adam Dalgliesh investigates the murder of distinguished criminal lawyer Venetia Aldridge.
5. PARADISE
By Toni Morrison (Knopf $25)
Four women are brutally attacked in a former convent near an all-black town in Oklahoma.
6. THE GHOST
By Danielle Steel (Delacorte $25.95)
Divorced man finds solace in the diary of a woman who first came to America in 1789.
7. THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS
By Arundhati Roy (Random House $23)
A story of fraternal twins and their family.
8. MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA
By Arthur Golden (Knopf $25)
A fisherman’s daughter is sold into servitude and carefully trained to become a geisha.
9. ANOTHER CITY, NOT MY OWN
By Dominick Dunne (Crown $25)
A fictional revisiting of the O.J. Simpson criminal trial.
10. THE LETTER
By Richard Paul Evans (Simon & Schuster $15.95)
The final volume of Evans’ Christmas Box trilogy (“The Christmas Box,” “Timepiece”).
Nonfiction Hardcover
1. MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL
By John Berendt (Random House $23)
The story of a sensational murder inside an opulent Savannah, Ga., mansion.
2. SIMPLE ABUNDANCE
By Sarah Ban Breathnach (Warner $20)
For women, a graceful inspirational daily guide.
3. ANGELA’S ASHES
By Frank McCourt (Scribner $23)
A memoir of growing up poor in Ireland.
4. INTO THIN AIR
By Jon Krakauer (Villard $24.95)
Journalist recounts 1996 Mt. Everest disaster.
5. 8 WEEKS TO OPTIMUM HEALTH
By Andrew Weil, M.D. (Knopf $23)
A program for improving and maintaining health, by the author of “Spontaneous Healing.”
6. JOY OF COOKING
By Irma S. Rombauer (Scribner $30)
A new and updated edition of the classic cookbook, with hundreds of new recipes.
7. DON’T WORRY, MAKE MONEY
By Dr. Richard Carlson (Hyperion $15.95)
Essays on achieving financial success, from the author of “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff.”
8. TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE
By Mitch Albom (Doubleday $19.95)
A journalist shares the lessons he learned about life during visits with a dying professor.
9. CITIZEN SOLDIERS
By Stephen E. Ambrose (Simon & Schuster $27.50)
The stories of ordinary men who served in World War II Europe.
10. CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD, BOOK I
By Neale Donald Walsch (Putnam $19.95)
Essays about good and evil, guilt and sin.
