PAPERBACK FICTION
Washington Post Bestsellers Sept. 16-22
(Vintage, $15.95). By E.L. James. The first of a British e-book erotic trilogy that has become a publishing phenomenon. [24]
(Vintage, $15.95). By E.L. James. Book two in the trilogy finds Ana still enraptured by Christian. [21]
(Vintage, $15.95). By E.L. James. How traditional a couple are Ana and Christian? The trilogy’s conclusion answers all. [20]
4. RED MIST
(Berkley, $9.99). By Patricia Cornwell. Scarpetta investigates the death of her former deputy chief. [1]
(Scribner, $15). By F. Scott Fitzgerald. The classic American novel of love lost and fortunes gained amid the Jazz Age.[12]
6. KILL SHOT
(Atria, $9.99). By Vince Flynn. A CIA assassin picks off the perpetrators of the Pan Am Lockerbie bombing. [3]
7. ZERO DAY
(Vision, $9.99). By David Baldacci. An Army investigator sleuths in West Virginia coal country, far from any military installation. [4]
8. BARED TO YOU
(Berkley, $15). By Sylvia Day. A tale billed as “erotic,” part of the author’s “Crossfire” series and sporting a cover style in the vein of E.L. James’s trilogy. [10]
(Jove, $7.99). By Jayne Castle. Rogues have violated the peace of a distant island. Meanwhile, s Rachel Bonner falling for the bad guy? [1]
10. THE BEST OF ME
(Grand Central, $14.99). By Nicholas Sparks. A high school couple, separated 25 years later, rekindle their love after a friend’s funeral. [3]
PAPERBACK NONFICTION/GENERAL
1. THE OFFICIAL SAT STUDY GUIDE
(College Board, $21.99). This revised manual offers 10 practice tests and loads of tips. [118]
2. THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS
(Broadway, $16). By Rebecca Skloot. How one woman’s death from cervical cancer in 1951 led to the creation of the prodigious HeLa cell line. [73]
3. OUTRAGED: HOW DETROIT AND THE WALL STREET CAR CZARS KILLED THE AMERICAN DREAM
(iUniverse, $24.95). By Tamara Darvish and Lillie Guyer. [1]
4. HOW TO READ LITERATURE LIKE A PROFESSOR
(Harper Perennial, $14.99). By Thomas C. Foster. [12]
5. GETTING TO YES: NEGOTIATING AGREEMENT WITHOUT GIVING IN
(Penguin, $16). By Roger Fisher and William Ury. Second edition. [9]
(Harper, $14.99). By Gretchen Rubin. What happened when a lawyer, writer and mom set out to improve her life in a year? [24]
7. PERSEPOLIS
(Pantheon, $13.95). Comic-strip images convey Satrapi’s memoir of a childhood suddenly convulsed by the Iranian Revolution. [1]
8. ENCASE COMPUTER FORENSICS -- THE OFFICIAL ENCE: ENCASE CERTIFIED EXAMINER STUDY GUIDE
(Sybex, $69.99). By Steve Bunting. [1]
9. MERRIAM-WEBSTER’S SPANISH-ENGLISH DICTIONARY
(Merriam-Webster, $6.50) Another staple of back-to-school lists. [7]
10. THE COMPLETE COOK’S COUNTRY TV SHOW COOKBOOK
(America's Test Kitchen, $26.95). By editors at Cook’s Country. [1]
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