Top Ten Hardcover Fiction

1) CHOSEN PREY, by John Sandford. Lucas Davenport pursues a kinky art history professor who has discovered that he likes to kill women.

2) ON THE STREET WHERE YOU LIVE, by Mary Higgins Clark. A defense lawyer finds herself haunted by two murders that took place 110 years apart.

3) BACK WHEN WE WERE GROWNUPS, by Anne Tyler. A 53-year-old woman, the head of an unruly extended family in Baltimore, tries to recover her "original self."

4) DREAMCATCHER, by Stephen King. In the woods of Maine, four hunters who have been friends since boyhood encounter a disoriented stranger and a dangerous creature from another world.

5) A PAINTED HOUSE, by John Grisham. The experiences of a 7-year-old boy whose parents live and work in the cotton fields of Arkansas.

6) A COMMON LIFE, by Jan Karon. Celebrating the wedding of Father Tim Kavanagh and Cynthia Coppersmith; the sixth book in the "Mitford Years" series. 7) DEATH IN HOLY ORDERS, by P. D. James. Cmdr. Adam Dalgliesh investigates the death of a powerful businessman`s son at a small theological college in England.

8) THE LAST TIME THEY MET, by Anita Shreve. Two writers who once had a passionate affair meet years later at a literary festival

9) LONE EAGLE, by Danielle Steel. A woman is reunited with the love of her life, a legendary aviator who was Charles Lindbergh`s protégé.

10) CHOKE, by Chuck Palahniuk. A medical school dropout who earns his living at a dreary Colonial American theme park comes up with a novel way of supplementing his income.

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