LITTLE ROCK — Fiction 1. WORLD WITHOUT END, Ken Follett. Love and intrigue in Kingsbridge, the medieval English cathedral town at the center of Follett's Pillars of the Earth.
2. PLAYING FOR PIZZA, John Grisham. An American third-string quarterback joins the Italian National Football League's Parma Panthers.
3. THE CHOICE, Nicholas Sparks.
How the choices made by a North Carolina man and the neighbor with whom he falls in love play out their lives.
4. A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS, Khaled Hosseini. A friendship between two women in Afghanistan against the backdrop of 30 years of war, from the author of The Kite Runner.
5. DARK OF THE MOON, John Sandford. Virgil Flowers, a character from Invisible Prey, investigates three murders in a small Minnesota town.
6. YOU'VE BEEN WARNED, James Patterson and Howard Roughan. An aspiring photographer working as a nanny and in love with the children's father has terrible visions.
7. BRIDGE OF SIGHS, Richard Russo. The entangled lives of an upstate New York couple and their best friend, from the author of Empire Falls.
8. RUN, Ann Patchett. Two young black men, adopted in childhood by the former mayor of Boston, encounter their birth mother and sister.From the author of Bel Canto.
9. SHOOT HIM IF HE RUNS, Stuart Woods. Stone Barrington, the New York cop turned lawyer, tracks a rogue CIA agent on a Caribbean island.
10. THE ORC KING, R.A. Salvatore. The dark elf Drizzt Do'Urden seeks vengeance against the orcs in the first book of a new fantasy trilogy, Transitions.
(The New York Times)Nonfiction1. I AM AMERICA (AND SO CAN YOU!) Stephen Colbert et al. The wit and wisdom of the mock pundit of Comedy Central's Colbert Report.
2. CLAPTON, Eric Clapton. The guitarist looks back on his life, drugs and music.
3. MY GRANDFATHER'S SON, Clarence Thomas. A memoir from an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
4. THE AGE OF TURBULENCE, Alan Greenspan. A memoir by the longtime chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.
5. CELEBRITY DETOX, Rosie O'Donnell. The TV star considers the fame game and its personal costs.
6. IF DEMOCRATS HAD ANY BRAINS, THEY'D BE REPUBLICANS, Ann Coulter. A collection of the columnist's provocative quotations, some from previous books and interviews, some new.
7. THE DAY OF BATTLE, Rick Atkinson. The American Army in Sicily and Italy, 1943-44; the second volume of the Liberation triology.
8. THE NINE, Jeffrey Toobin. A portrait of the Supreme Court since the Reagan administration focuses on the influence of its moderates.
9. LOUDER THAN WORDS, Jenny McCarthy. A mother deals with her son's autism and struggles to find treatment.
10. THE WAR, Geoffrey C. Ward. A companion to the seven-part PBS documentary directed by Ken Burns, with hundreds of photographs.
(The New York Times)Paperback fiction1. LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. (Vintage) 2. WATER FOR ELEPHANTS, Sara Gruen. (Algonquin) 3. THE KITE RUNNER, Khaled Hosseini. (Riverhead) 4. THE MEMORY KEEPER'S DAUGHTER, Kim Edwards. (Penguin) 5. MIDDLESEX, Jeffrey Eugenides.
(Picador) (The New York Times)Paperback nonfiction1. EAT, PRAY, LOVE, Elizabeth Gilbert.
(Penguin Books) 2. INTO THE WILD, Jon Krakauer.
(Anchor) 3. 90 MINUTES IN HEAVEN, Don Piper with Cecil Murphey. (Revell) 4. THREE CUPS OF TEA, Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. (Penguin) 5. THE GLASS CASTLE, Jeanette Walls. (Scribner) (The New York Times)
Travel, Pages 100 on 10/28/2007