(Washington Square, $16) By Jodi Picoult. Anna, conceived as a donor match for her ill sister, Kate, sues her parents for legal rights at age 13. » WEEK 9 ON OUR LIST
Swimsuit
(Little, Brown, $27.99) By James Patterson & Maxine Paetro. A supermodel vanishes from a shoot in Hawaii. » WEEK 1 ON OUR LIST
Hidden Currents
(Jove, $7.99). By Christine Feehan. The youngest of the magical Drake sisters is abducted, and then rescued. And then the terror begins. » WEEK 1 ON OUR LIST
Finger Lickin' Fifteen
(St. Martin's, $27.95) By Janet Evanovich. A Plum adventure replete with a beheaded chef and a string of break-ins. » WEEK 2 ON OUR LIST
The Shack
(Windblown, $14.99) By William P. Young. A father's faith is challenged after the abduction and murder of his daughter. » WEEK 55 ON OUR LIST
The Apostle
(Atria, $26.99). By Brad Thor. Scot Harvath is dispatched to spring an al-Qaeda leader from prison after an American is kidnapped. » WEEK 1 ON OUR LIST
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
(Vintage, $14.95). By Stieg Larsson. A missing heiress. An unlikely pair of sleuths. Set in Sweden. » WEEK 2 ON OUR LIST
Knock Out
(Putnam, $26.95) By Catherine Coulter. A young girl with psychic gifts telepathically contacts FBI agent Dillon Savich. » WEEK 3 ON OUR LIST
Fearless Fourteen
(St. Martin's, $7.99) By Janet Evanovich. Stephanie Plum is ensnared in one family's fallout from bank robbery and murder. » WEEK 2 ON OUR LIST
The Bourne Deception
(Grand Central, $27.99) By Eric Van Lustbader. Ludlum's Jason Bourne returns to track down his would-be assassins. » WEEK 4 ON OUR LIST
(Little, Brown, $27.99) By Michael Connelly. Dual plot lines–a twisted serial killer and a shrinking newspaper industry–occupy Jack McEvoy. » WEEK 6 ON OUR LIST
Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine
(Threshold, $11.99). By Glenn Beck. A la Thomas Paine. » WEEK 3 ON OUR LIST
Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto
(Threshold, $25). By Mark R. Levin. The talk radio host trumpets conservative ideals. » WEEK 14 ON OUR LIST
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace
(Penguin, $15) By Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin » WEEK 114 ON OUR LIST
Catastrophe
(Harper, $26.99). By Dick Morris. and Eileen McGann. Portending a socialist nightmare in America, courtesy of Obama’s policies. » WEEK 2 ON OUR LIST
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
(Quirk, $12.95). By Jane Austen & Seth Grahame-Smith. The undead in Regency England. » WEEK 14 ON OUR LIST
Through his wide-ranging imagination and precise prose, Crowley re-creates life on the home front during World War II -- its culture, its sexual mores, its dominant air of uncertainty -- with seemingly effortless fidelity. -- Bill Sheehan
In Levy's beautiful memoir, he invites us to accompany him on a harrowing descent as he changes from a man who has suffered from occasional headaches into the victim of an unremitting, four-month-long, life-altering migraine. -- Christine Montross
With a plot involving terror suspects and big-time drug dealers at the chafing line between two nations, "Border Songs" remains surprisingly sensitive and understated. -- Ron Charles
Aglow with fairy-tale inflections, this hypnotic, neo-Gothic suspense story unfolds like a hothouse bloom, lush and pungent; it's a sprig of nightshade, all petals and poison. -- Daniel Mallory
Spiked with wit, scrubbed free of sentimentality, these tales of love and loss, courage and cowardice, transport us back into the pages of our own lives and our own families. -- Ron Charles
An extremely excellent adventure by ex-President Harry Truman and his wife, Bess, in the form of a road trip they both made -- just the two of them -- in the summer of 1953. -- Christopher Buckley
In what may be his finest novel, Littell dramatizes the horrific events that followed after the great Russian poet Osip Mandelstam wrote a 16-line epigram that attacked the all-powerful Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. -- Patrick Anderson
The Photographer, by Emmanuel Guibert, Didier Lefevre and Frederic Lemercier (First Second, $29.95)
A riveting account told with photographs and graphic art of Lefevre's experiences in Zaragandara, the Afghan town where Doctors Without Borders set up a makeshift hospital. -- Douglas Wolk
This well-toned novel, which covers six days of camping in the Wind River Range of Wyoming, accelerates like an avalanche, suspicion rolling into fear and then roaring down with a conclusion that shakes the ground. -- Ron Charles
By turns digressive, intelligent, level-headed, vituperative, maddening and insightful. -- David Greenberg
Far North, by Marcel Theroux (Farrar Straus Giroux, $25)
The first great cautionary fable of climate change, Marcel Theroux's homespun tale about a solitary frontier survivor conjures up a monolithic world that's ominous and deeply memorable. -- Lydia Millet
A pastiche of a Dr. Fu Manchu adventure, "The Shanghai Gesture" is slightly hallucinatory and slightly science fictional, and also funny. -- Michael Dirda
Family secrets, hidden treasure, elaborate scams, terrific characters, equal parts humor and excitement -- what more could a reader want? -- Michael Dirda
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