Fiction Hardcover
1. A MAN IN FULL
By Tom Wolfe (Farrar, Straus & Giroux $28.95)
Racial conflict, politics and big-money deals in present-day Atlanta.
2. THE SIMPLE TRUTH
By David Baldacci (Warner $25)
A convicted killer’s appeal uncovers a conspiracy that reaches into the Supreme Court.
3. THE POISONWOOD BIBLE
By Barbara Kingsolver (HarperFlamingo $27.50)
The story of an evangelical minister who moves his family to the Belgian Congo in 1959.
4. SEIZE THE NIGHT
By Dean Koontz (Bantam $26.95)
A detective tracks down children and pets abducted from a California community.
5. WHEN THE WIND BLOWS
By James Patterson (Little, Brown $25)
Bizarre events disrupt the lonely existence of a Colorado veterinarian.
6. MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA
By Arthur Golden (Knopf $25)
A fisherman’s daughter is sold into servitude and carefully trained to become a geisha.
7. RAINBOW SIX
By Tom Clancy (Putnam $27.95)
An ex-Navy SEAL searches for a connection between terrorist acts in Europe.
8. BAG OF BONES
By Stephen King (Scribner $28)
A novelist is drawn into a custody battle between a millionaire and his daughter-in-law.
9. BILLY STRAIGHT
By Jonathan Kellerman (Random House $25.95)
A 12-year-old teams up with a detective.
10. ANGELS FLIGHT
By Michael Connelly (Little, Brown $25)
A detective investigates the murder of a prominent African-American attorney.
Nonfiction Hardcover
1. THE GREATEST GENERATION
By Tom Brokaw (Random House $24.95)
A celebration of the generation that came of age during World War II.
2. TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE
By Mitch Albom (Doubleday $19.95)
A journalist shares the lessons he learned about life during visits with a dying professor.
3. THE CENTURY
By Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster (Doubleday $60)
A history of the 20th Century as experienced by ordinary men and women.
4. THE 9 STEPS TO FINANCIAL FREEDOM
By Suze Orman (Crown $23)
Strategies for achieving financial goals.
5. BLIND MAN’S BLUFF
By Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew with Annette Drew (Public Affairs $25)
True stories of American submarine espionage.
6. IF LIFE IS A GAME, THESE ARE THE RULES
By Cherie Carter-Smith (Broadway Books $15)
A motivational speaker’s anecdote-laden 10 rules for being human.
7. THE PROFESSOR AND THE MADMAN
By Simon Winchester (HarperCollins $20)
A portrait of two men who compiled the Oxford English Dictionary.
8.ONE DAY MY SOUL JUST OPENED UP
By Iyanla Vanzant (Simon & Schuster/Fireside $13)
A 40-day, spiritual self-help program.
9. SOMETHING MORE
By Sarah Ban Breathnach (Warner $20)
A guide for women who suspect there’s something more to life than love and money.
10. CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD, BOOK 3
By Neale Donald Walsch (Hampton Roads $22.95)
More of the author’s “conversations” with God.
