Hardcover Fiction
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| 1 | THE WHOLE TRUTH, by David Baldacci. (Grand Central, $26.99.) An intelligence agent and a journalist team up against a warmongering defense contractor. | 1 | |
| 2 | HOLD TIGHT, by Harlan Coben. (Dutton, $26.95.) The aftermath of a high school kid’s suicide rocks a New Jersey suburb. | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | THE MIRACLE AT SPEEDY MOTORS, by Alexander McCall Smith. (Pantheon, $22.95.) The ninth novel in the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series. | 3 | 2 |
| 4 | UNACCUSTOMED EARTH, by Jhumpa Lahiri. (Knopf, $25.) Stories about the anxiety and transformation experienced by Bengali parents and their American children. | 4 | 4 |
| 5 | WHERE ARE YOU NOW?, by Mary Higgins Clark. (Simon & Schuster, $25.95.) A woman searches for the truth about her brother, who is alive but has disappeared. | 2 | 3 |
| 6 | CERTAIN GIRLS, by Jennifer Weiner. (Atria, $26.95.) A girl discovers the sexy, somewhat autobiographical novel her mother wrote years earlier. | 5 | 3 |
| 7 | QUICKSAND, by Iris Johansen. (St. Martin’s, $26.95.) The forensic sculptor Eve Duncan tracks a killer who claims to have murdered her daughter years earlier. | 1 | |
| 8 | * DEAD HEAT, by Joel C. Rosenberg. (Tyndale, $24.99.) With the world on the brink of war, terrorists plot to assassinate a candidate in a closely fought presidential election. | 5 | |
| 9 | 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. | 6 | 13 |
| 10 | SANTA FE DEAD, by Stuart Woods. (Putnam, $25.95.) A Santa Fe lawyer investigates his nefarious former wife. | 1 | |
| 11 | THE THIRD CIRCLE, by Amanda Quick. (Putnam, $24.95.) In Victorian England, a crystal reader joins forces with a hypnotist to steal a mysterious stone (an Arcane Society novel). | 1 | |
| 12 | COMPULSION, by Jonathan Kellerman. (Ballantine, $27.) Several Los Angeles women are murdered, and the psychologist-detective Alex Delaware investigates. | 7 | 5 |
| 13 | BELONG TO ME, by Marisa de los Santos. (Morrow, $24.95.) When she moves to the suburbs, a woman becomes enmeshed in complications and secrets. | 8 | 4 |
| 14 | BULLS ISLAND, by Dorothea Benton Frank. (Morrow, $24.95.) An investment banker returns to the South Carolina island home she had left 20 years before. | 11 | 3 |
| 15 | 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. | 12 | 49 |
| 16 | * CHANGE OF HEART, by Jodi Picoult. (Atria, $26.95.) A prisoner on death row begins performing miracles. | 10 | 8 |
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| 17 | SMALL FAVOR, by Jim Butcher (Roc) | ||
| 18 | REMEMBER ME?, by Sophie Kinsella (Dial) | ||
| 19 | THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO, by Junot Diaz (Riverhead) | ||
| 20 | SO BRAVE, YOUNG AND HANDSOME, by Leif Enger (Atlantic) | ||
| 21 | WORLD WITHOUT END, by Ken Follett (Dutton) | ||
| 22 | WINTER STUDY, by Nevada Barr (Putnam) | ||
| 23 | THE DAY I ATE WHATEVER WANTED, by Elizabeth Berg (Random House) | ||
| 24 | THE HOUSE AT RIVERTON, by Kate Morton (Atria) | ||
| 25 | 7TH HEAVEN, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown) | ||
| 26 | THE THIRD ANGEL, by Alice Hoffman (Shaye Areheart) | ||
| 27 | ZAPPED, by Carol Higgins Clark (Scribner) | ||
| 28 | A PRISONER OF BIRTH, by Jeffrey Archer (St. Martin’s) | ||
| 29 | PEOPLE OF THE BOOK, by Geraldine Brooks (Viking) | ||
| 30 | HONOR THYSELF, by Danielle Steel (Delacorte) | ||
| 31 | LUSH LIFE, by Richard Price (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) | ||
| 32 | GUILTY, by Karen Robards (Putnam) | ||
| 33 | PLEASURE, by Eric Jerome Dickey (Dutton) | ||
| 34 | LOST SOULS, by Lisa Jackson (Kensington) | ||
| 35 | THE GIRL WITH NO SHADOW, by Joanne Harris (Morrow) | ||