Fiction
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1 THE RACKETEER, by John Grisham. Malcolm Bannister, an imprisoned ex-lawyer, knows who murdered a federal judge. And he concocts a scheme to exchange this information for his freedom. |
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2 THE PANTHER, by Nelson DeMille. Posted to Yemen, the anti-terrorist task force agent John Corey and his wife, an F.B.I. agent, pursue a high-ranking Qaeda operative — who is out to avenge the death of the Libyan terrorist Corey killed in New York. |
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3 THE CASUAL VACANCY, by J. K. Rowling. The sudden death of a parish councilman reveals bitter social divisions in an idyllic English town; a novel for adults by the creator of Harry Potter. |
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4 BACK TO BLOOD, by Tom Wolfe. A Cuban-American cop is a hero turned pariah in Miami, where ethnic and class tensions threaten to explode. |
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5 THE BRIDGE, by Karen Kingsbury. The destruction of a beloved bookstore offers the shop’s supporters second chances on love and leases. |
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6 THE BONE BED, by Patricia Cornwell. A paleontologist’s disappearance in Canada turns out to be connected to crimes much closer to home for the chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta; the 20th Scarpetta book. |
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7 GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn. A woman disappears on the day of her fifth anniversary; is her husband a killer? |
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8 NYPD RED, by James Patterson and Marshall Karp. Detective Zach Jordan and his beautiful partner (and ex-girlfriend) must stop a deranged killer who has targeted a glittering New York film festival. |
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9 ANGELS AT THE TABLE, by Debbie Macomber. Angels cook up a plan to reunite a young couple. |
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10 WINTER OF THE WORLD, by Ken Follett. In Book 2 of the Century trilogy, members of five interrelated families from five countries, some of them children of characters in the previous book, “Fall of Giants,” grapple with the tumultuous historical events of the years 1939-49. |
NonFiction
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1 KILLING KENNEDY, by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard. The host of “The O’Reilly Factor” recounts the events surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy. |
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2 NO EASY DAY, by Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer. An account by a former member of the Navy SEALs, written pseudonymously, of the mission that killed bin Laden. |
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3 KILLING LINCOLN, by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard. The host of “The O’Reilly Factor” recounts the heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. |
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4 ROD, by Rod Stewart. The pop singer reminisces on his long career. |
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5 THE SIGNAL AND THE NOISE, by Nate Silver. An examination of predictions, the ones that come true and the ones that don’t. |
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6 PROOF OF HEAVEN, by Eben Alexander. A neurosurgeon recounts his near death experience during a coma from bacterial meningitis. |
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7 MAKE UP TO BREAKUP, by Peter Criss with Larry Sloman. The Kiss drummer reflects on his life in rock. |
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8 HOW CHILDREN SUCCEED, by Paul Tough. The author argues that the qualities that matter most have to do with character, not intelligence. |
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9 AMERICA AGAIN, by Stephen Colbert, Richard Dahm, Paul Dinello, Barry Julien, Tom Purcell et al.. The mock pundit of Comedy Central’s “Colbert Report” tells how to bring America back from the brink. |
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10 PLUTOCRATS, by Chrystia Freeland. The lives of the global elites in the wealthiest 0.1 percent and the consequences of increasing income stratification. |