Fiction
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1 COLD DAYS, by Jim Butcher. Harry Dresden lives, but he’s no longer Chicago’s only professional wizard. Now he’s the Winter Knight, Queen Mab’s assassin, and she wants her newest minion to pull off the impossible: kill an immortal. |
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2 THE BLACK BOX, by Michael Connelly. In a case that spans 20 years, the Los Angeles detective Harry Bosch links the bullet from a recent crime to a file from 1992, the killing of a young female photographer during the race riots. |
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3 NOTORIOUS NINETEEN, by Janet Evanovich. The New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum joins with Joe Morelli to track down a con man who disappeared from a hospital; meanwhile, she takes a second job guarding Ranger. |
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4 THE FORGOTTEN, by David Baldacci. The military investigator John Puller, the protagonist of “Zero Day,” probes his aunt’s mysterious death in Florida. |
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5 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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6 AGENDA 21, by Glenn Beck with Harriet Parke. A girl begins to question the authorities who run the Republic, the totalitarian successor to the United States created by the U.N. |
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7 MERRY CHRISTMAS, ALEX CROSS, by James Patterson. Detective Alex Cross confronts both a hostage situation and a terrorist act at Christmas. |
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8 THE LAST MAN, by Vince Flynn. The counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp searches for a missing C.I.A. asset amid treachery in Afghanistan. |
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9 GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn. A woman disappears on the day of her fifth anniversary; is her husband a killer? |
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10 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. |
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 THOMAS JEFFERSON, by Jon Meacham. The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist celebrates Jefferson’s skills as a practical politician. |
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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 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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5 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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6 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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7 THE LAST LION, by William Manchester and Paul Reid. This biography of Winston Churchill, reaching from World War II until his death in 1965. |
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8 ANTIFRAGILE, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. The philosophical essayist and author of “The Black Swan” identifies things that not only gain from chaos but need it in order to survive and flourish. |
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9 ROLL ME UP AND SMOKE ME WHEN I DIE, by Willie Nelson. The musician muses on family, friends, Texas and life on the road. |
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10 TAP DANCING TO WORK, by Carol J. Loomis. A collection of updated Fortune magazine articles on Warren Buffett, published between 1966 and 2012. |