Books

HARDCOVER BOOKS

FICTION

1. THE STORY OF EDGAR SAWTELLE, by David Wroblewski. (Ecco, $25.95.) A mute takes refuge with three dogs in the Wisconsin woods after his father's death.

2. THE OTHER QUEEN, by Philippa Gregory. (Touchstone, $25.95.) The story of Mary, Queen of Scots, in captivity under Queen Elizabeth.

3. FAEFEVER, by Karen Marie Moning. (Delacorte, $25.95.) MacKayla is caught in the middle as the faes battle it out in Dublin; the third part of the Fever series.

4. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, by Stieg Larsson. (Knopf, $24.95.) A hacker and a journalist help a wealthy octogenarian investigate his niece's disappearance 40 years ago; the first part of a trilogy by the late Swedish journalist.

5. THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. (Dial, $22.) A journalist meets with residents of the island of Guernsey who resisted the Nazi occupation.

6. (x) THE BOOK OF LIES, by Brad Meltzer. (Grand Central, $25.99.) The murder of the father of Superman's creator, Jerry Siegel, is linked to the biblical story of Cain and Abel.

7. THE HOST, by Stephenie Meyer. (Little, Brown, $25.99.) Aliens have taken control of the minds and bodies of most humans, but one woman won't surrender.

8. ANATHEM, by Neal Stephenson. (William Morrow, $29.95.) An order of cloistered mathematicians and scientists must save their Earth-like planet when catastrophe threatens.

9. AMERICAN WIFE, by Curtis Sittenfeld. (Random House, $26.) A pretty librarian marries the alcoholic son of a wealthy political family who somehow becomes president.

10. INDIGNATION, by Philip Roth. (Houghton Mifflin, $26.) A Newark, N.J., college student in the Korean War era breaks with his parents and goes to a school in the Midwest.

11. PAUL OF DUNE, by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. (Doherty, $27.95.) The story of Paul MuadDib and his jihad, which took place between Frank Herbert's novels Dune and Dune Messiah.

12. ORDER 66, by Karen Traviss. (Del Rey, $27.) The Republics clone forces fight against treacherous odds; a “Star Wars” novel.

13. DARK CURSE, by Christine Feehan. (Berkley, $24.95.) A Carpathian novel.

14. DEVIL BONES, by Kathy Reichs. (Scribner, $25.95.) Temperance Brennan, the forensic anthropologist, must identify two victims of voodoo and devil worship.

15. THE KEEPSAKE, by Tess Gerritsen. (Ballantine,, $26.) A killer who mummifies his victims is on the loose in Boston.

NONFICTION

1. HOT, FLAT, AND CROWDED, by Thomas L. Friedman. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27.95.) How a green revolution can renew America, by the New York Times columnist.

2. THE WAR WITHIN, by Bob Woodward. (Simon & Schuster, $32.) White House debates over the Iraq war, 2006-08.

3. THE LIMITS OF POWER, by Andrew Bacevich. (Metropolitan/Holt, $24.) A retired Army colonel argues that Americans themselves are responsible for the country's woes. (b)

4. ANGLER, by Barton Gellman. (Penguin, $27.95.) Dick Cheney's actions as vice president are explored by the Washington Post reporter.

5. (x) THROUGH THE STORM, by Lynne Spears with Lorilee Craker. (Nelson, 24.99.) Britney Spears' mother gives her perspective on her family's perils.

6. STORI TELLING, by Tori Spelling with Hilary Liftin. (Simon Spotlight Entertainment, $24.95.) The actress's memoir. (b)

7. BOYS WILL BE BOYS, by Jeff Pearlman. (Harper, $25.95.) A chronicle of the Super Bowl-winning Dallas Cowboys of the 1990s.

8. ARE YOU THERE, VODKA? ITS ME, CHELSEA, by Chelsea Handler. (Simon Spotlight Entertainment, $24.95.) Humorous personal essays from the stand-up comedian.

9. THE FOREVER WAR, by Dexter Filkins. (Knopf, $25.) A distillation of his work in Iraq and Afghanistan by the New York Times correspondent.

10. FLEECED, by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann. (Harper, $26.95.) Americans are fleeced by government, business, labor unions and lobbyists. (b)

11. WHEN YOU ARE ENGULFED IN FLAMES, by David Sedaris. (Little, Brown, $25.99.) The humorist's latest essays.

12. (x) THE CASE AGAINST BARACK OBAMA, by David Freddoso. (Regnery, $27.95.) The Democratic candidate as a calculating extreme leftist. (b)

13. DEWEY, by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter. (Grand Central, $19.99.) The kitten left freezing in the returned-book slot of an Iowa public library, and his rise to fame.

14. THE OBAMA NATION, by Jerome R. Corsi. (Threshold, $28.) The Democratic candidate as an extreme leftist, from a co-author of Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry. (b)

15. ACEDIA AND ME, by Kathleen Norris. (Riverhead, $25.95.) Personal experience with a malady related to depression.

16. (x) THE TROUBLE WITH BOYS, by Peg Tyre. (Crown, $24.95.) The national debate about why boys are falling behind girls achievement in school.

ADVICE

1. THE LAST LECTURE, by Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow. (Hyperion, $21.95.) Thoughts on seizing every moment from Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon professor who died of pancreatic cancer at age 47.

2. BREAKTHROUGH, by Suzanne Somers. (Crown, $25.95.) Eight steps to wellness: advice on hormone therapy from Somers and a group of doctors.

3. THE SECRET, by Rhonda Byrne. (Atria/Beyond Words, $23.95.) The law of attraction as a key to getting what you want.

4. GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS 2009, edited by Craig Glenday. (Guinness, $28.95.) Tallest, fastest, youngest, most.

5. REAL LIFE, by Phil McGraw. (Free Press, $26.99.) Preparing yourself for seven different kinds of life crisis, from bereavement to existential angst.

6. SIX DISCIPLINES EXECUTION REVOLUTION, by Gary Harpst. (Six Disciplines Publishing, $12.95.) Strategies for small and midsize businesses. (b)

7. CHEF MD'S BIG BOOK OF CULINARY MEDICINE, by John La Puma and Rebecca Powell Marx. (Crown, $24.95.) An internist with a culinary degree suggests ways to get healthier foods into your diet.

8. BEFORE YOU DO, by T.D. Jakes. (Atria, $25.) How your choices affect your relationships, marriage and family.

9. THE 4-HOUR WORKWEEK, by Timothy Ferriss. (Crown, $19.95.) Reconstructing your life so it's not all about work.

10. THE TRUTH ABOUT CHEATING, by M. Gary Neuman. (Wiley, $24.95.) Why husbands stray and what their wives can do to prevent it.

PAPERBACK BOOKS

NONFICTION

1. THREE CUPS OF TEA, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. (Penguin, $15.) A former climber builds schools in villages in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

2. EAT, PRAY, LOVE, by Elizabeth Gilbert. (Penguin, $15.) A writer's yearlong journey in search of self.

3. SARAH, by Kaylene Johnson. (Epicenter, $15.95.) The career of Sarah Palin, the Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential nominee. (b)

4. CHANGE YOUR BRAIN, CHANGE YOUR LIFE, by Daniel G. Amen. (Three Rivers, $15.) Instructions for conquering anxiety, depression and anger.

5. THE AUDACITY OF HOPE, by Barack Obama. (Three Rivers; $14.95, Vintage; $7.99.) The Illinois senator asks Americans to move beyond political divisions.

6. DREAMS FROM MY FATHER, by Barack Obama. (Three Rivers, $14.95.) The senator on life as the son of a black African father and a white American mother.

7. A LONG WAY GONE, by Ishmael Beah. (Sarah Crichton/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $12.) A former child soldier from Sierra Leone describes his drug-crazed killing spree and his return to humanity.

8. LOOK ME IN THE EYE, by John Elder Robison. (Three Rivers, $14.95.) A memoir of life with Asperger's syndrome.

9. CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN, with a foreword by Barack Obama. (Three Rivers, $13.95.) Speeches and policy proposals from Obama's presidential campaign.

10. THE NINE, by Jeffrey Toobin. (Anchor, $15.95.) Inside the secret world of the Supreme Court.

11. I HOPE THEY SERVE BEER IN HELL, by Tucker Max. (Citadel, $12.95.) Life as a drunken womanizer.

12. 90 MINUTES IN HEAVEN, by Don Piper with Cecil Murphey. (Revell, $12.99.) A minister on the otherworldly experience he had after an accident.

13. ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MIRACLE, by Barbara Kingsolver with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver. (Harper Perennial, $14.95.) The novelist and her family spend a year eating homegrown or local food.

14. (x) THE ZOOKEEPER'S WIFE, by Diane Ackerman. (Norton, $14.95.) How a Warsaw couple sheltered Jews and members of the Resistance during World War II.

15. THE WORLD IS FLAT, by Thomas L. Friedman. (Picador, $16.) The Times columnist's analysis of 21st-century economics and foreign policy.

16. (x) MARLEY & ME, by John Grogan. (Harper, $13.95.) Lessons learned from a neurotic dog.

17. MIKE'S ELECTION GUIDE, by Michael Moore. (Grand Central, $13.99.) The filmmaker's take on 2008.

18. THE DUCHESS, by Amanda Foreman. (Random House, $15.95.) aka Georgiana Spencer, the great-great-great-great-aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales.

19. THE YEAR OF LIVING BIBLICALLY, by A. J. Jacobs. (Simon & Schuster, $15.) The secular author's memoir of his attempt to obey the Bible as literally as possible.

20. MY HORIZONTAL LIFE, by Chelsea Handler. (Bloomsbury, $14.95.) A memoir of one-night stands.

ADVICE

1. A NEW EARTH, by Eckhart Tolle. (Plume, $14.) A spiritual teacher prescribes letting go of the ego to help end conflict and suffering.

2. SKINNY BITCH, by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin. (Running Press, $13.95.) Vegan diet advice from the world of modeling.

3. WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOURE EXPECTING, by Heidi Murkoff and Sharon Mazel. (Workman, $14.95.) Advice for parents-to-be. (b)

4. THE POWER OF NOW, by Eckhart Tolle. (New World Library, $14.) A guide to personal growth and spiritual enlightenment.

5. THE FIVE LOVE LANGUAGES, by Gary Chapman. (Northfield, $13.99.) How to communicate love in a way a spouse will understand.

6. THE PURPOSE-DRIVEN LIFE, by Rick Warren. (Zondervan, $14.99.) Finding meaning in one's life through God.

7. MONEY, AND THE LAW OF ATTRACTION, by Esther and Jerry Hicks. (Hay House, $16.95.) Improving your physical and financial well-being. (b)

8. HUNGRY GIRL, by Lisa Lillien. (St. Martins Griffin, $17.95.) Recipes for burgers, nachos, pizza, fudge, onion rings and other “guilty” foods — without the guilt.

9. 1,000 RECORDINGS TO HEAR BEFORE YOU DIE, by Tom Moon. (Workman, $19.95.) Operas, rock albums, blues, classical music, world music and other essentials, from a musician and music journalist.

10. HELLO, CUPCAKE!, by Alan Richardson and Karen Tack. (Houghton Mifflin, $15.95.) Funny, scary, playful and sophisticated creations made with treats you can find in any grocery aisle.

TRADE FICTION

1. THE SHACK, by William P. Young. (Windblown Media, $14.99.) A man whose daughter was abducted receives an invitation to an isolated shack, apparently from God. (b)

2. THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO, by Junot Diaz. (Riverhead, $14.) A nerdy Dominican-American struggles to escape a family curse.

3. WATER FOR ELEPHANTS, by Sara Gruen. (Algonquin, $13.95.) A young man and an elephant save a Depression-era circus.

4. BAREFOOT, by Elin Hilderbrand. (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $13.99.) Three women with various problems spend a transformative summer together on Nantucket.

5. NIGHTS IN RODANTHE, by Nicholas Sparks. (Grand Central, $13.99.) Romance ignites between a middle-aged man and woman at a North Carolina inn.

6. (x) THE ALCHEMIST, by Paulo Coelho. (HarperOne, $13.95.) A Spanish shepherd boy travels to Egypt in search of treasure.

7. THE CHOICE, by Nicholas Sparks. (Grand Central, $13.99.) How a North Carolina man's decisions about love and death play out in his life.

8. THE ROAD, by Cormac McCarthy. (Vintage, $14.95.) A father and son travel in post-apocalypse America.

9. THE ALMOST MOON, by Alice Sebold. (Little, Brown, $14.99.) A woman accustomed to satisfying the needs of her clinging family finally reaches the point of no return.

10. LOVING FRANK, by Nancy Horan. (Ballantine, $14.) A story of the romance between Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Borthwick Cheney.

11. THE KITE RUNNER, by Khaled Hosseini. (Riverhead, $15.95 and $14.) An Afghan-American returns to Kabul to learn how a childhood friend has fared.

12. SECOND CHANCE, by Jane Green. (Plume, $15.) A group of 30-something friends reconsider their lives after one of their number is killed in a terrorist attack.

13. WHEN THE SOUL MENDS, by Cindy Woodsmall. (WaterBrook, $13.99.) A disgraced Amish woman returns home to care for her sister, and faces a choice between her two worlds.

14. NINETEEN MINUTES, by Jodi Picoult. (Washington Square, $15.) The aftermath of a high school shooting reveals the fault lines in a small New Hampshire town.

15. THE FRIDAY NIGHT KNITTING CLUB, by Kate Jacobs. (Berkley, $14.) A group of women meet weekly at a New York City yarn shop.

16. THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES, by Sue Monk Kidd. (Penguin, $14.) In South Carolina in 1964, a teenage girl tries to discover the secret to her mother's past.

17. OUT STEALING HORSES, by Per Petterson. (Picador, $14.) In a remote cabin, a Norwegian man circles around his memories.

18. INFINITE JEST, by David Foster Wallace. (Back Bay, $17.99.) In a near future dominated by commercialism, addiction and political turmoil, a Quebecois separatist group plots to distribute copies of a lethal underground movie.

19. BRIDGE OF SIGHS, by Richard Russo. (Vintage, $14.95.) The entangled lives of an upstate New York couple and their friend.

20. (x) RUN, by Ann Patchett. (Harper Perennial, $14.95.) Two young black men, adopted in childhood by a Boston politician, encounter their birth mother and sister.

MASS-MARKET FICTION

1. BOOK OF THE DEAD, by Patricia Cornwell. (Berkley, $9.99.) The forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta opens a private practice in Charleston, S.C.

2. NIGHTS IN RODANTHE, by Nicholas Sparks. (Grand Central, $7.99.) Romance ignites between a middle-aged man and woman at a North Carolina inn.

3. DEAD UNTIL DARK, by Charlaine Harris. (Ace, $7.99.) Sookie Stackhouse, a psychic cocktail waitress in rural Louisiana, falls in love with a bad-boy vampire.

4. STONE COLD, by David Baldacci. (Vision, $9.99.) Members of Washington's Camel Club are being stalked to prevent them from uncovering government secrets.

5. PROTECT AND DEFEND, by Vince Flynn. (Pocket, $9.99.) An American counterterrorism operative must avert catastrophe in nuclear Iran.

6. COMPULSION, by Jonathan Kellerman. (Ballantine, $9.99.) Several Los Angeles women are murdered, and the psychologist-detective Alex Delaware investigates.

7. PLAYING FOR PIZZA, by John Grisham. (Dell, $7.99.) An American third-string quarterback joins the Italian National Football League's Parma Panthers.

8. 8 SANDPIPER WAY, by Debbie Macomber. (Mira, $7.99.) Romantic intrigue in Cedar Cove, Wash.

9. SWEET REVENGE, by Diane Mott Davidson. (Avon, $7.99.) While catering a breakfast, Goldy Schulz thinks she spots her ex-husband's supposedly dead killer.

10. YOU'VE BEEN WARNED, by James Patterson and Howard Roughan. (Vision, $9.99.) An aspiring photographer working as a nanny has terrible visions.

11. LIVING DEAD IN DALLAS, by Charlaine Harris. (Ace, $7.99.) A vampire asks the psychic waitress Sookie Stackhouse to track down one of his missing companions.

12. CRITICAL, by Robin Cook. (Berkley, $9.99.) A medical examiner investigates infection deaths at Manhattan hospitals whose main financial backer is a Mafia don.

13. KEEPING FAITH, by Jodi Picoult. (Avon, $7.99.) A child starts hearing divine voices in the aftermath of her parents' divorce.

14. CLUB DEAD, by Charlaine Harris. (Ace, $7.99.) Sookie Stackhouse's vampire boyfriend has been kidnapped, and she has to go to Jackson, Miss., to try to rescue him with the help of an undead Elvis.

15. TRUNK MUSIC, by Michael Connelly. (Grand Central, $7.99.) Harry Bosch's inquiry into a movie producer's murder leads to Las Vegas; a reprint of a 1997 book.

16. (x) DEAD AS A DOORNAIL, by Charlaine Harris. (Ace, $7.99.) The cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse is drawn into the world of were-politics when a friend's father tries to take over his local werewolf pack, and a sniper is targeting nonhumans.

17. (x) DEAD TO THE WORLD, by Charlaine Harris. (Ace, $7.99.) Sookie Stackhouse's vampire boyfriend has traveled to Peru, leaving her to deal with his amnesiac boss and her own missing brother.

18. ALL TOGETHER DEAD, by Charlaine Harris. (Ace, $7.99.) Sookie Stackhouse, a New Orleans cocktail waitress, is swept up in the intrigue of a vampire summit meeting.

19. DEFINITELY DEAD, by Charlaine Harris. (Ace, $7.99.) A New Orleans vampire queen tries to stop a cocktail waitress, Sookie Stackhouse, from looking into the past of her consort, who is Sookie's cousin.

20. COLD HEARTED, by Beverly Barton. (Zebra/Kensington, $6.99.) A PI wonders why every man who gets close to Jordan Price seems to end up dead.