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1. The Help by Kathryn Stockett. A story about a young white woman and two black maids in 1960s Mississippi.

2. Lethal by Sandra Brown. A woman, her daughters and a man accused of murder search for her dead husband’s secrets while evading authorities.

3. The Mill River Recluse by Darcie Chan. Only one man knows an abused widow’s secret which, if revealed, will change many lives in her Vermont town.

4. Heat Rises by Richard Castle. An NYPD homicide detective uncovers a conspiracy reaching to his department’s highest levels.

5. Son of Stone by Stuart Woods. New York lawyer Stone Barrington gets to know his teenage son and proposes to the boy’s mother.

6. The Abbey by Chris Culver. Against orders, a former homicide detective starts investigating his niece’s murder.

7. Listen to Your Heart by Fern Michaels. Strange things happen to a lonely New Orleans caterer after she meets a wealthy, attractive Cajun playboy.

8. Kill Me if You Can by James Patterson and Marshall Karp. A young man finds a bag of diamonds and draws the attention of two rival assassins.

9. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. Two young rivals at a magical circus become collaborators and fall in love.

10. New York to Dallas by J.D. Robb. An escaped child molester pursues Lt. Eve Dallas.

11. Reamde: A Novel by Neal Stephenson. A virus sets off a violent struggle among those engaged in a multiplayer online role-playing game.

12. The Black Ice by Michael Connelly. L.A. detective Harry Bosch investigates the scandalous death of a narcotics officer.

13. Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay. A contemporary American journalist investigates what happened to a little girl and her family during the 1942 roundup of Jews in Paris.

14. 1105 Yakima Street by Debbie Macomber. In Book 11 in the Cedar Cove series, Bruce Peyton’s pregnant wife has left him.

15. Blind Faith by CJ Lyons. A woman finds no closure after a man is executed for the murder of her husband and son.

NONFICTION

1. Heaven Is for Real by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent. A 3-year-old’s story of an encounter with Jesus and angels during an appendectomy.

2. Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy. Recordings and transcripts of a seven-part interview with Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. in 1964.

3. Confidence Men by Ron Suskind. President Obama and his advisers, often at odds with one another, respond to the economic crisis.

4. Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. An Olympic runner’s story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II.

5. Moneyball by Michael Lewis. How Oakland A’s manager Billy Beane produced successful teams despite one of the smallest payrolls in baseball.

6. A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard. The author’s recollections of being kidnapped at 11 and spending 18 years imprisoned by her captor.

7. The Quest by Daniel Yergin. How the need for energy — especially, but not only, oil — drives global political and economic change.

8. In My Time by Dick Cheney. The former vice president on his life and nearly four decades at the core of American politics.

9. That Used to Be Us by Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum. How America fell behind in a world it invented, and how it can come back.

10. In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson. A portrait of Berlin during the rise of the Nazis, centering on William E. Dodd, who became U.S. ambassador there in 1933.

11. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. An impoverished woman’s cancer cells were extensively cultured without her permission in 1951.

12. Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard. The life and death by assassination (and medical malpractice) of President James A. Garfield.

13. The Rogue by Joe McGinnis. The book McGinniss wrote after moving to Wasilla, Alaska, to report on Sarah Palin.

14. Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff. This biography portrays the Macedonian-Egyptian queen as ambitious, audacious and formidably intelligent.

15. Here Comes Trouble by Michael Moore. Stories from the life of the provocative documentary filmmaker.

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