HARDCOVER FICTION
1 Step on a Crack
By James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
Little, Brown, $27.99
The funeral of a former first lady turns into a crisis.
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2 Sisters
By Danielle Steel
Delacorte, $27
Four sisters are brought together in New York by tragedy.
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3 The Double Bind
By Chris Bohjalian
Shaye Areheart/Crown, $25
A social worker becomes obsessed with the life and work of a dead photographer (this sentence as published has been corrected in this text).
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4 Plum Lovin’
By Janet Evanovich
St. Martin’s, $16.95
The latest Stephanie Plum mystery.
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5 For One More Day
By Mitch Albom
Hyperion, $21.95
A novel about second chances, by the author of “The Five People You Meet in Heaven.”
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6 The Alexandria Link
By Steve Berry
Ballantine, $25.95
A thriller about an attempt to find the lost Library of Alexandria.
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7 High Profile
By Robert B. Parker
Putnam, $24.95
Jesse Stone investigates the murder of a talk-show host.
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8 Cross
By James Patterson.
Little, Brown, $27.99
The latest thriller with forensic psychologist Alex Cross.
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9 Hannibal Rising
By Thomas Harris
Delacorte, $27.95
Fills in the early years of Hannibal Lecter’s life.
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10 Natural Born Charmer
By Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Morrow, $24.95
A romance in which an artist meets up with a football star.
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11. Heart-Shaped Box, by Joe Hill
12. Hide, by Lisa Gardner
13. Family Tree, by Barbara Delinsky
14. Star Wars: Allegiance, by Timothy Zahn
15. Ten Days in the Hills, by Jane Smiley
HARDCOVER NON-FICTION
1 The Secret
By Rhonda Byrne
Atria/Beyond Words, $23.95
How to bring joy to everyday life using ancient knowledge.
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2 The Audacity of Hope
By Barack Obama
Crown, $25
Details the policy positions of Illinois’ junior U.S. senator.
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3 You, on a Diet
By Drs. Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet C. Oz
Free Press, $25
How to lose weight and keep it off.
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4 A Long Way Gone
By Ishmael Beah
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $22
The memoirs of a boy soldier in the Sierra Leonean civil war of the 1990s.
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5 The Best Life Diet
By Bob Greene
Simon & Schuster, $26
A plan for losing weight, from the man who helped Oprah Winfrey shed pounds.
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6 Marley & Me
By John Grogan
Morrow, $21.95
Life with a rambunctious dog.
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7 The Innocent Man
By John Grisham
Doubleday, $28.95
A true story of murder and injustice in a small Oklahoma town.
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8 I Feel Bad About My Neck
By Nora Ephron
Knopf, $19.95
Biting commentary about being a woman of a certain age.
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9 The Proper Care & Feeding of Marriage
By Laura Schlessinger
HarperCollins, $25.95
Advice about marriage from the radio psychologist.
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10 About Alice
By Calvin Trillin
Random House, $14.95
The writer’s tribute to his wife.
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11. The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins
12. Born on a Blue Day, by Daniel Tammet
13. Palestine, by Jimmy Carter
14. Infidel, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
15. Cesar’s Way, by Cesar Millan, with Melissa Jo Peltier.
Source: Publishers Weekly
