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1. Khaled Hosseini
   A Thousand Splendid Suns
   A friendship between two women in Afghanistan against the backdrop of 30 years of war; from the author of “The Kite Runner.”
    

2. Richard Bachman
   Blaze
   An early Stephen King novel — Bachman is his alias — here revised. A criminal who was an abused child plots a kidnapping.
    

3. Catherine Coulter
   Double Take
   Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock — F.B.I. agents as well as husband and wife — join with a San Francisco colleague to solve a murder and find a missing woman.
    

4. J. R. R. Tolkien. (Edited by Christopher Tolkien. Illustrated by Alan Lee)
   The Children of Hurin
   Middle-earth, an evil lord wants to destroy his rival’s children.
    

5. Laurell K. Hamilton
   The Harlequin
   The vampire hunter Anita Blake is under surveillance by a troop of vampire enforcers.
    

6. Dean Koontz
   The Good Guy
   In a case of mistaken identity, an ordinary man finds himself at the center of a murder plot.
    

7. Clive Cussler with Paul Kemprecos
   The Navigator
   Kurt Austin and his team track down a stolen Phoenician statue.
    

8. Michael Connelly
   The Overlook
   The Los Angeles detective Harry Bosch tangles with the F.B.I. and Homeland Security as he tries to solve the case of a murdered physicist with access to radioactive materials.
    

9. James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
   The 6th Target
   In San Francisco, children and their nannies are disappearing, and Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women’s Murder Club investigate.
    

10. Mitch Albom
    For One More Day
    A troubled man gets a last chance to reconnect and restore his relationship with his dead mother.

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1. Cormac McCarthy
   The Road
   A father and son travel in post-apocalypse America. 


 

2. Sara Gruen
   Water for Elephants
   A young man — and an elephant — save a Depression-era circus.
    

3. Khaled Hosseini
   The Kite Runner
   An Afghan-American returns to Kabul to learn how a childhood friend has fared under the Taliban.
    

4. Jeffrey Eugenides
   Middlesex: A Novel
   The narrator — who, at 14, discovered she was a hermaphrodite — tells an epic story about three generations of Greek-Americans.
    

5. James Patterson and Peter De Jonge
   Beach Road
   A lawyer defends a high school basketball star suspected of murder.
    

6. Nora Roberts
   Angels Fall
   A woman newly arrived in the Wyoming mountains claims to have witnessed a murder, but only one man believes her.
    

7. Kim Edwards
   The Memory Keeper's Daughter
   A doctor’s decision to secretly send his newborn daughter, who has Down syndrome, to an institution haunts everyone involved.
    

8. Dean Koontz
   The Husband
   A man whose wife has been kidnapped has 60 hours to come up with a huge ransom.
    

9. James Rollins
   Black Order
   Operatives of Sigma Force become entangled in a modern-day Nazi experiment.
    

10. Clive Cussler with Paul Kemprecos
    POLAR SHIFT
    Kurt Austin must contend with the leader of an antiglobalization group that has technology with the potential to destroy all of humanity.