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PAPERBACK TRADE FICTION
1
TRUE GRIT, by Charles Portis. (Overlook, $14.95.)
A 14-year-old Arkansas girl hires a "one-eyed fat man" to hunt down her father’s killer; first published in 1968.
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WATER FOR ELEPHANTS, by Sara Gruen. (Algonquin, $13.95.)
A young man — and an elephant — save a Depression-era circus.
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THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, by Stieg Larsson. (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, $7.99.) A hacker and a journalist investigate the disappearance of a Swedish heiress.
4
CUTTING FOR STONE, by Abraham Verghese. (Vintage, $15.95.)
Twin brothers, conjoined and then separated, grow up amid the political turmoil of Ethiopia.
5
WINTER GARDEN, by Kristin Hannah. (St. Martin’s Griffin, $14.99.)
After their father’s death, two sisters must cooperate to run his apple orchard and care for their difficult mother.
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LITTLE BEE, by Chris Cleave. (Simon & Schuster, $14.)
The lives of a British woman and a Nigerian girl collide.
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THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE, by Stieg Larsson. (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, $7.99.)
A Swedish hacker becomes a murder suspect.
8
HOUSE RULES, by Jodi Picoult. (Washington Square, $16.)
A teenage boy with Asperger’s syndrome is accused of murder.
9
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THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN, by Garth Stein. (Harper Paperbacks, $14.99.)
An insightful Lab-terrier mix helps his owner, a struggling race car driver.
10
THE IMPERFECTIONISTS, by Tom Rachman. (Dial, $15.)
The goings-on among the neurotic staff of an English-language newspaper in Rome.
11
SARAH’S KEY, by Tatiana de Rosnay. (St. Martin’s Griffin, $13.95.)
A contemporary American journalist investigates the roundup of Jews in Paris in 1942.
12
THE ALCHEMIST, by Paulo Coelho. (HarperOne, $14.99.)
A Spanish shepherd boy goes to Egypt in search of treasure.
13
MAJOR PETTIGREW’S LAST STAND, by Helen Simonson. (Random House, $15.)
Love and cultural conflict among characters loosed in an English village.
14
HALF BROKE HORSES, by Jeannette Walls. (Scribner, $15.)
A re-creation of the life of the author’s grandmother — a mustang breaker, schoolteacher, ranch wife and mother of two — in the Southwest.
15
THE FORGOTTEN GARDEN, by Kate Morton. (Washington Square, $15.)
From England to Australia and back, two women try to solve a family mystery.
16
HOTEL ON THE CORNER OF BITTER AND SWEET, by Jamie Ford. (Ballantine, $15.)
A friendship between a Chinese-American boy and a Japanese-American girl in Seattle during World War II.
17
ROSES, by Leila Meacham. (Grand Central, $13.99.)
A multigenerational saga about a wide-eyed Texas heiress who becomes a calculating cotton plantation queen.
18
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TINKERS, by Paul Harding. (Bellevue Literary Press, $14.95.)
A dying clock repairman recalls his impoverished New England childhood; a 2010 Pulitzer winner.
19
THE LACUNA, by Barbara Kingsolver. (Harper Perennial, $16.99.)
A young American growing up in Mexico becomes friends with artists and radicals; later, in the United States, he is menaced by McCarthyism.
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THE LOTUS EATERS, by Tatjana Soli. (St. Martin’s Griffin, $14.99.)
A photographer in Vietnam in 1975 grows ambivalent about her moral role as a journalist.
PAPERBACK MASS-MARKET FICTIONWeeks on List
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DELIVER US FROM EVIL, by David Baldacci. (Vision, $9.99.)
Two agents are tracking the same man, a human trafficker who is now dealing in nuclear arms. 4
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THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, by Stieg Larsson. (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, $7.99.)
A hacker and a journalist investigate the disappearance of a Swedish heiress. 45
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THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE, by Stieg Larsson. (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, $7.99.)
A Swedish hacker becomes a murder suspect.
4
HOW TO WOO A RELUCTANT LADY, by Sabrina Jeffries. (Pocket Star, $7.99.)
When a rogue proposes she marry him to get her inheritance, the Sharpe clan’s strong-willed sister makes a tempting counteroffer.
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LIVE TO TELL, by Lisa Gardner. (Bantam, $7.99.)
The investigation of a Boston family’s murder leads Detective D.D. Warren to a pediatric psychiatric ward. 4
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THE LOST SYMBOL, by Dan Brown. (Anchor, $9.99.)
Robert Langdon among the Masons.
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THE FIRST RULE, by Robert Crais. (Berkley, $9.99.)
Elvis Cole and Joe Pike set out to clear the reputation of a former military contractor who has been murdered. 4
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THE SCENT OF JASMINE, by Jude Deveraux. (Pocket, $7.99.)
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IMPACT, by Douglas Preston. (Forge, $9.99.)
Scientists race to defuse a doomsday weapon pointed at Earth from one of the moons of Mars.
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PROMISE CANYON, by Robyn Carr. (Mira, $7.99.)
A Navajo farrier falls for a Hopi woman in Virgin River.
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U IS FOR UNDERTOW, by Sue Grafton. (Berkley, $7.99.)
Kinsey Millhone investigates the case of a 4-year-old girl who disappeared 21 years earlier.
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ALTAR OF EDEN, by James Rollins. (Harper/HarperCollins, $9.99.)
A Louisiana veterinarian discovers a wrecked fishing trawler filled with genetically altered animals. 3
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THE LADY MOST LIKELY ..., by Julia Quinn, Eloisa James and Connie Brockway. (Avon/HarperCollins, $7.99.)
This “novel in three parts” follows an earl’s search for a suitable wife at a Regency-era party.
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DEJA VU, by Fern Michaels. (Zebra/Kensington, $7.99.)
No longer fugitives, the Sisterhood tries to bring down the master criminal Hank Jellicoe.
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THE HONOR OF SPIES, by W. E. B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV. (Jove, $9.99.)
An O.S.S. agent seeks information from a German prisoner of war; Book 5 in the Honor Bound series.
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TREASURE HUNT, by John Lescroart. (Signet, $9.99.)
A young private investigator in San Francisco discovers some unpleasant facts when a well-known fund-raiser is killed.
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THE MACGREGORS — SERENA & CAINE, by Nora Roberts. (Silhouette, $7.99.)
A reissue of two 1985 novels, “Playing the Odds” and “Tempting Fate.”
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RUTHLESS GAME, by Christine Feehan. (Jove, $7.99.)
In Mexico, Kane Cannon discovers a fugitive and fellow GhostWalker pregnant with his child.
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THE LAST SURGEON, by Michael Palmer. (St. Martin’s, $9.99.)
A trauma surgeon and a nurse track a killer whose specialty is murders that don’t look like murder.
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BLACK MAGIC SANCTION, by Kim Harrison. (Harper Voyager, $7.99.)
Rachel Morgan, a witch who is also a bounty hunter, is shunned by her kind; Book 8 of the Hollows series.
PAPERBACK NONFICTIONWeeks on List
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HEAVEN IS FOR REAL, by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent. (Thomas Nelson, $16.99.)
A boy’s encounter with Jesus and the angels during an appendectomy.
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INSIDE OF A DOG, by Alexandra Horowitz. (Scribner, $16.)
What the world is like from a dog’s point of view.
3
JUST KIDS, by Patti Smith. (Ecco, $16.)
The godmother of punk recalls her time with Robert Mapplethorpe and their yearnings for a life in art in New York City.
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THE GLASS CASTLE, by Jeannette Walls. (Scribner, $15.)
The author recalls a bizarre childhood during which she was constantly on the move. (†) 203
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EAT, PRAY, LOVE, by Elizabeth Gilbert. (Penguin, $15.)
A writer’s journey in search of self takes her to Italy, India and Indonesia. 207
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WHAT THE DOG SAW, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Back Bay/Little Brown, $16.99.)
A decade of Gladwell’s New Yorker essays.
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BLINK, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $15.99.)
Hunch and instinct in the workings of the mind. 171
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THE TIPPING POINT, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $15.99.)
A study of social epidemics, otherwise known as fads. 329
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THREE CUPS OF TEA, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. (Penguin, $16.)
A former climber builds schools in villages in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
10
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MY HORIZONTAL LIFE, by Chelsea Handler. (Bloomsbury, $14.95.)
A memoir of one-night stands.
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FREAKONOMICS, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. (Harper Perennial, $15.99.)
A scholar and a journalist apply economic theory to nearly everything.
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ARE YOU THERE, VODKA? IT'S ME, CHELSEA, by Chelsea Handler. (Gallery, $16.)
Humorous personal essays from the comedian.
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STONES INTO SCHOOLS, by Greg Mortenson. (Penguin, $16.)
Peace through education in Afghanistan and Pakistan, by the author of “Three Cups of Tea.”
14
THE OMNIVORE’S DILEMMA, by Michael Pollan. (Penguin, $16.)
Tracking food from soil to plate.
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THE OTHER WES MOORE, by Wes Moore. (Spiegel & Grau, $15.)
A tale of two Wes Moores of Baltimore: one, the author, a Rhodes scholar and combat veteran; the other, a man serving a life sentence.
16
MENNONITE IN A LITTLE BLACK DRESS, by Rhoda Janzen. (Holt, $14.)
Life’s detours send Janzen back to the Mennonite home where she was raised.
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THE CHECKLIST MANIFESTO, by Atul Gawande. (Picador, $15.)
A simple way to manage complexity.
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ZEITOUN, by Dave Eggers. (Vintage, $15.95.)
The travails of a Syrian-American man and his family after Hurricane Katrina.
19
PUBLIC ENEMIES, by Bernard-Henri Lévy and Michel Houellebecq. (Random House, $17.)
Two noted Frenchmen debate the universe and their places in it.
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THE KING'S SPEECH, by Mark Logue and Peter Conradi. (Sterling, $14.95.)
A speech therapist helps the man who became King George VI lose his stammer.
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