(Scribner, $35) By Stephen King. An invisible force field surrounds the Maine hamlet of Chester's Mill, with unforeseen consequences. » WEEK 1 ON OUR LIST
Bed of Roses
(Berkley, $16). By Nora Roberts. The second Bride Quartet novel finds one of the wedding planners at Vows falling for a close friend. » WEEK 3 ON OUR LIST
(Dell, $9.99) By John Grisham. What ensues when a promising law-school graduate is blackmailed. » WEEK 8 ON OUR LIST
True Blue
(Grand Central, $27.99) By David Baldacci. The travails and triumphs of a female police officer and her sister, the D.C. chief of police. » WEEK 3 ON OUR LIST
(Amy Einhorn, $24.95) By Kathryn Stockett. A frank chronicle of the lives of several black maids working in a town in 1960s Miss. » WEEK 17 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 74 ON OUR LIST
Kindred in Death
(Putnam, $26.95) By J.D. Robb. Lt. Eve Dallas is tasked with finding the brutal killer of her new captain's 16-year-old daughter. » WEEK 2 ON OUR LIST
(Dial, $14) By Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. Channel Island joy and woe. » WEEK 28 ON OUR LIST
The Gathering Storm
(Tor, $29.99). By Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson. The first of three novels that aim to conclude Jordan's "Wheel of Time" saga. » WEEK 3 ON OUR LIST
Cross Country
(Vision, $9.99) By James Patterson. D.C. police detective Alex Cross tracks a murderer to Nigeria. » WEEK 7 ON OUR LIST
The Scarpetta Factor
(Putnam, $27.95) By Patricia Cornwell. Scarpetta, wary of accepting a program offer from CNN, tackles yet another crime. » WEEK 4 ON OUR LIST
The Art of Racing in the Rain
(Harper, $14.99). By Garth Stein. Enzo, a canine with human qualities, narrates this unique tale. » WEEK 6 ON OUR LIST
Ice
(Ballantine, $22). By Linda Howard. This holiday thriller packs a small town setting, a damsel in distress, the sheriff's dutiful son and a wicked ice storm. » WEEK 1 ON OUR LIST
The Blind Side
(Norton, $13.95). By Michael Lewis. The true story of star left tackle Michael Oher; basis of the new feature film. » WEEK 2 ON OUR LIST
(Morrow, $29.99). By Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. » WEEK 4 ON OUR LIST
Eat This Not That! Supermarket Survival Guide
(Rodale, $19.95). By David Zinczenko. with Matt Goulding. Spotting nutritious options. » WEEK 14 ON OUR LIST
What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures
(Little, Brown, $27.99) By Malcolm Gladwell. A selection of writings from the New Yorker magazine. » WEEK 4 ON OUR LIST
Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis
(Rodale, $26.99). By Al Gore. The environmental activist distills in one volume the best options to facilitate change. » WEEK 2 ON OUR LIST
Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle
(Twelve, $26.99) By Dan Senor and Saul Singer. A business boom. » WEEK 2 ON OUR LIST
Freakonomics
(HarperPerennial, $15.99) By Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner. Exploring behavioral economics—revised and expanded. » WEEK 10 ON OUR LIST
It's Your Time: Activate Your Faith, Achieve Your Dreams and Increase in God's Favor
(Free Press, $25). By Joel Osteen » WEEK 2 ON OUR LIST
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
(Back Bay, $15.99) By Malcolm Gladwell. Behind our snap decisions. » WEEK 64 ON OUR LIST
The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama's Historic Victory
(Viking, $27.95). By David Plouffe » WEEK 2 ON OUR LIST
The Official SAT Study Guide (Second Edition)
(College Board, $21.99). This revised manual offers 10 practice tests and loads of details and tips. » WEEK 13 ON OUR LIST
Guinness World Records 2010: The Book of the Decade
(Guinness Media, $28.95). » WEEK 9 ON OUR LIST
The Glass Castle
(Scribner, $14) By Jeannette Walls. A daughter's memoir of her eccentric parents and unorthodox upbringing. » WEEK 116 ON OUR LIST
The Next Level: What Insiders Know About Executive Success
(Davies-Black, $26.95) By Scott Elbin. What to do when you're the one in charge. » WEEK 1 ON OUR LIST
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Difference
(Back Bay, $14.95). By Malcolm Gladwell. Fads and their origins. » WEEK 116 ON OUR LIST
Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System -- and Themselves
(Viking, $32.95). By Andrew Ross Sorkin » WEEK 5 ON OUR LIST
The Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper, $26.99)
Despite a large, colorful canvas, ultimately "The Lacuna" is a tender story about a thoughtful man who just wants to enjoy that basic American right: the right to be left alone. -- Ron Charles
Leads us on a safari through the many manifestations of our idea of the monstrous. I have seldom read a book that so satisfyingly achieves such an ambitious goal. -- Michael Sims
The author honors his father in the most profound way and is blessed, in turn, by participating in the most taxing event in his father's life. -- Carolyn See
Masterfully translated, spellbindingly told, it is resounding confirmation that Orhan Pamuk is one of the great novelists of his generation. -- Marie Arana
The story of Larsen and his legendary afternoon was hanging out there, like a juicy curve ball, for somebody to smash out of the park, and Lew Paper has done exactly that. -- Dave Sheinin
A brilliant portrait of a society in the throes of disorienting change, anchored by a penetrating character study of Henry VIII's formidable advisor, Thomas Cromwell. -- Wendy Smith
As naturally as she used elements of science fiction in the past, Niffenegger borrows the tropes of Victorian Gothic here for a story that seems, at first, more interested in whimsy than terror. -- Ron Charles
Such a winning family chronicle that the decline he describes is less a fall than an exhilarating ride, less sad than heartwarmingly comic. -- Marie Arana
A science-fictional roller coaster with surprises in store, as well as much slightly kinky lovemaking, a deliberate disordering of the senses in several bravura stylistic passages and, finally, a classic white-knuckle climax. -- Michael Dirda
A carefully reported, almost clinical account of what it is like to live in a totalitarian state and how hard it is to escape from it. -- Jonathan Yardley
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