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1. The Lost Symbol: A Novel - by Dan Brown

Publisher: Doubleday
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/15/2009
ISBN-13: 9780385504225
ISBN-10: 0385504225

Robert Langdon among the Masons.

2. The Scarpetta Factor - by Patricia Cornwell

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/20/2009
ISBN-13: 9780399156397
ISBN-10: 0399156399

Apparent threats on Kay Scarpetta's life make her hesitate when a TV producer wants her to star in a show.

3. Pursuit of Honor: A Thriller - by Vince Flynn

Publisher: Atria Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/13/2009
ISBN-13: 9781416595168
ISBN-10: 1416595163

The counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp must teach politicians about national security following a new Qaeda attack.

First Chapter

4. Nine Dragons: A Novel - by Michael Connelly

Publisher: Little, Brown
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/13/2009
ISBN-13: 9780316166317
ISBN-10: 0316166316

The Los Angeles detective Harry Bosch fights crime at home and in Hong Kong.

5. The Help - by Kathryn Stockett

Publisher: Amy Einhorn Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 02/10/2009
ISBN-13: 9780399155345
ISBN-10: 0399155341

A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s Mississippi.

6. Heat Wave - by Richard Castle

Publisher: Hyperion
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/29/2009
ISBN-13: 9781401323820
ISBN-10: 1401323820

An N.Y.P.D. homicide detective investigates the death of a real estate tycoon and flirts with a magazine journalist.

7. Wolf Hall: A Novel - by Hilary Mantel

Publisher: Henry Holt
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/13/2009
ISBN-13: 9780805080681
ISBN-10: 0805080686

Thomas More and Thomas Cromwell clash in Henry VIII's turbulent court.

First Chapter

8. Southern Lights: A Novel - by Danielle Steel

Publisher: Delacorte Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/20/2009
ISBN-13: 9780385340281
ISBN-10: 0385340281

When a New York prosecutor's daughter is threatened, she sends her back to the Charleston world she herself fled.

9. Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel - by Jeannette Walls

Publisher: Scribner
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/06/2009
ISBN-13: 9781416586289
ISBN-10: 1416586288

A re-creation of the life of the author's grandmother in the Southwest, by the author of The Glass Castle.

First Chapter

10. The Last Song - by Nicholas Sparks

Publisher: Grand Central
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/08/2009
ISBN-13: 9780446547567
ISBN-10: 0446547565

A 17-year-old girl spends the summer with her divorced father in North Carolina and finds many kinds of love.

11. Blood Game - by Iris Johansen

Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/20/2009
ISBN-13: 9780312368128
ISBN-10: 0312368127

The forensic sculptor Eve Duncan struggles against a serial killer.

12. A Touch of Dead: Sookie Stackhouse: The Complete Stories - by Charlaine Harris

Publisher: Ace Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/06/2009
ISBN-13: 9780441017836
ISBN-10: 0441017835

The complete Sookie Stackhouse stories.

13. To Try Men's Souls: A Novel of George Washington and the Fight for American Freedom - by Newt Gingrich, William R. Fortschen, and Albert S. Hanser

Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/20/2009
ISBN-13: 9780312591069
ISBN-10: 0312591063

The darkest days of the American Revolution.

14. An Echo in the Bone: A Novel - by Diana Gabaldon

Publisher: Delacorte Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/22/2009
ISBN-13: 9780385342452
ISBN-10: 0385342454

The descendants of Jamie Fraser and his wife, Claire, search for clues about their flight from North Carolina during the Revolution; the 7th Outlander novel.

First Chapter

15. Rough Country - by John Sandford

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/29/2009
ISBN-13: 9780399155987
ISBN-10: 0399155988

Virgil Flowers investigates a string of murders at a Minnesota resort for women.

These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the November 8 print edition of the Book Review. Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending October 24, at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide.

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