HARDCOVER FICTION
1 I Heard That Song Before
By Mary Higgins Clark
Simon & Schuster, $25.95
Suspicion envelopes a wealthy industrialist.
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2 Nineteen Minutes
By Jodi Picoult
Atria, $26.95
A thriller about a deadly high school shooting and the bullied teenager who was the gunman.
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3 Obsession
By Jonathan Kellerman
Ballantine, $26.95
A death-bed confession of murder is at the center of the latest Alex Delaware thriller.
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4 White Night
By Jim Butcher
Roc, $23.95
The ninth in the Dresden File series that combines mystery and fantasy, this one with a Chicago connection.
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5 Kingdom Come
By Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
Tyndale, $25.99
The latest book in the Left Behind series.
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6 Whitethorn Wood
By Maeve Binchy
Knopf, $25.95
Characters’ stories are told against the backdrop of a threatened demolition of an Irish shrine.
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7 The Alibi Man
By Tami Hoag
Bantam, $26
Private investigator Elena Estes investigates the death of a friend.
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8 The Reluctant Fundamentalist
By Mohsin Hamid
Harcourt, $22
A Pakistani man tells his tale, before and after 9/11.
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9 Step on a Crack
By James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge
Little, Brown, $27.99
The funeral of a former first lady turns into a crisis.
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10 Absolute Fear
By Lisa Jackson
Kensington, $19.95
A thriller about madness, murder and revenge.
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11. Shopaholic & Baby, by Sophie Kinsella
12. For a Few Demons More, by Kim Harrison
13. The Double Bind, by Chris Bohjalian
14. Boomsday, by Christopher Buckley
15. Sisters, by Danielle Steel
HARDCOVER NON-FICTION
1 The Secret
By Rhonda Byrne
Atria/Beyond Words, $23.95
How to bring joy to everyday life.
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2 Everyday Pasta
By Giada De Laurentiis
Clarkson Potter, $32.50
More than 100 recipes for the versatile staple.
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3 A Long Way Gone
By Ishmael Beah
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $22
The memoirs of a boy soldier in the Sierra Leonean civil war.
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4 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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5 The Weight Loss Cure “They” Don’t Want You to Know About
By Kevin Trudeau
Alliance Publishing, $24.95
Purports to describe a permanent cure for obesity.
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6 Women & Money
By Suze Orman
Spiegel & Grau, $24.95
A program aimed at helping women attain financial security.
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7 Grace (Eventually)
By Anne Lamott
Riverhead, $24.95
Essays on issues of faith from the author of “Plan B.”
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8 In an Instant
By Lee and Bob Woodruff
Random House, $25.95
The memoirs of ABC-TV’s Bob Woodruff, nearly killed a year ago by a bomb in Iraq, and his wife.
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9 Infidel
By Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Free Press, $26
A memoir of one woman’s escape from a traditional Muslim childhood and her activism as an adult.
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10 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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11. How Doctors Think, by Dr. Jerome Groopman
12. The Audacity of Hope, by Barack Obama
13. The Power of Simple Prayer, by Joyce Meyer
14. The New American Story, by Bill Bradley
15. The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins
Source: Publishers Weekly
