from the New York Times
Hardcover Fiction
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| 1 | CHANGE OF HEART, by Jodi Picoult. (Atria, $26.95.) A prisoner on death row begins performing miracles. | 1 | 2 |
| 2 | THE APPEAL, by John Grisham. (Doubleday, $27.95.) Political and legal intrigue ensue when a Mississippi court decides against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste. | 2 | 7 |
| 3 | REMEMBER ME?, by Sophie Kinsella. (Dial, $25.) A woman wakes up in a London hospital after an auto accident with no memory of the previous life-changing three years. | 3 | 3 |
| 4 | 7TH HEAVEN, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) In San Francisco, Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women’s Murder Club hunt for an arsonist. | 4 | 6 |
| 5 | KILLER HEAT, by Linda Fairstein. (Doubleday, $26.) One August, Alexandra Cooper, a Manhattan assistant district attorney, tracks a serial killer. | 1 | |
| 6 | A PRISONER OF BIRTH, by Jeffrey Archer. (St. Martin’s, $27.95.) A poor Londoner, framed for murder by four Cambridge friends, escapes from prison and exacts revenge. | 7 | 2 |
| 7 | LUSH LIFE, by Richard Price. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $26.) An aspiring writer becomes a suspect in a friend’s murder on the Lower East Side. | 6 | 2 |
| 8 | CHRIST THE LORD: THE ROAD TO CANA, by Anne Rice. (Knopf, $25.95.) In the second book of Rice’s life of Christ, Jesus embraces his prophetic destiny. | 9 | 2 |
| 9 | STRANGERS IN DEATH, by J. D. Robb. (Putnam, $25.95.) Lt. Eve Dallas investigates a businessman’s scandalous death; by Nora Roberts, writing pseudonymously. | 8 | 4 |
| 10 | * A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS, by Khaled Hosseini. (Riverhead, $25.95.) A friendship between two women in Afghanistan against the backdrop of 30 years of war. | 11 | 43 |
| 11 | HONOR THYSELF, by Danielle Steel. (Delacorte, $27.) A 50-year-old actress injured in a terrorist attack in Paris must rebuild her life. | 5 | 3 |
| 12 | WORLD WITHOUT END, by Ken Follett. (Dutton, $35.) Love and intrigue in Kingsbridge, the medieval English cathedral town at the center of Follett’s “Pillars of the Earth.” | 15 | 23 |
| 13 | THE OUTLAW DEMON WAILS, by Kim Harrison. (Eos, $24.95.) A witch who is also a bounty hunter must enter the demonic realm; the sixth book in the Hollows series. | 10 | 3 |
| 14 | DUMA KEY, by Stephen King. (Scribner, $28.) A Florida contractor begins to create paintings with mysterious power. | 13 | 8 |
| 15 | LADY KILLER, by Lisa Scottoline. (Harper, $25.95.) When her high-school rival disappears, possibly as a result of foul play, a Philadelphia lawyer must confront her past. | 12 | 4 |
| 16 | ANOTHER THING TO FALL, by Laura Lippman. (Morrow, $24.95.) A Baltimore private investigator becomes the bodyguard of a difficult star on the set of a TV series. | 1 | |
| Also Selling | |||
| 17 | BETRAYAL, by John Lescroart (Dutton) | ||
| 18 | PEOPLE OF THE BOOK, by Geraldine Brooks (Viking) | ||
| 19 | THE FIRST PATIENT, by Michael Palmer (St. Martin’s) | ||
| 20 | DEEP DISH, by Mary Kay Andrews (Harper) | ||
| 21 | THE KILLING GROUND, by Jack Higgins (Putnam) | ||
| 22 | DEAD TIME, by Stephen White (Dutton) | ||
| 23 | THE SENATOR’S WIFE, by Sue Miller (Knopf) | ||
| 24 | THE ANCIENT, by R. A. Salvatore (Tor) | ||
| 25 | STRANGER IN PARADISE, by Robert B. Parker (Putnam) | ||
| 26 | CARROT CAKE MURDER, by Joanne Fluke (Kensington) | ||
| 27 | FIREFLY LANE, by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin’s) | ||
| 28 | BLIND FALL, by Christopher Rice (Scribner) | ||
| 29 | CHARM!, by Kendall Hart (Hyperion) | ||
| 30 | FRIEND OF THE DEVIL, by Peter Robinson (Morrow) | ||
| 31 | PLUM LUCKY, by Janet Evanovich (St. Martin’s) | ||
| 32 | A STRANGER’S GAME, by Joan Johnston (Pocket) | ||
| 33 | THE GHOST WAR, by Alex Berenson (Putnam) | ||
| 34 | THE SILVER SWAN, by Benjamin Black (Henry Holt) | ||
| 35 | SUCCULENT: CHOCOLATE FLAVA II, edited by Zane (Atria) | ||