LITTLE ROCK — Fiction 1. BAD MOON RISING, by Sherrilyn Kenyon. Book 18 of the Dark-Hunter paranormal series.
2. THAT OLD CAPE MAGIC, by Richard Russo. A long-married couple wrestle with their dissatisfactions during a Cape Cod weekend; by the author of Empire Falls.
3. THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett. A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s Mississippi.
4. THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE, by Stieg Larsson. A Swedish hacker becomes a murder suspect.
5. INHERENT VICE, by Thomas Pynchon.
A pothead private eye in Los Angeles, circa 1970.
6. BEST FRIENDS FOREVER, by Jennifer Weiner. Childhood friends, estranged in high school, reunite years later when the popular one needs the mousy one's help.
7. THE TRAFFICKERS, by W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV. A Philadelphia cop joins forces with a Texas Ranger to track a gang connected to the Mexican drug cartel; part of the Badge of Honor series.
8. THE DEFECTOR, by Daniel Silva. When a Russian defector who once saved his life disappears, Gabriel Allon, an art restorer and occasional spy for the Israeli secret service, attempts to rescue him.
9. SWIMSUIT, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. A former cop, now a reporter for The Los Angeles Times, investigates the disappearance of a supermodel.
10. DEAD AND GONE, by Charlaine Harris.
Sookie Stackhouse searches for the killer of a werepanther.
Nonfiction 1. CULTURE OF CORRUPTION, by Michelle Malkin. President Barack Obama and his team of tax cheats, petty crooks, influence peddlers and Wall Street cronies.
2. OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. Why some people succeed-it has to do with luck and opportunity as well as talent-from the author of Blink.
3. IN THE PRESIDENT'S SECRET SERVICE, by Ronald Kessler. Agents and the presidents they protect.
4. CATASTROPHE, by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann. Stopping President Obama before he transforms America into a socialist state and destroys the health care system.
5. LIBERTY AND TYRANNY, by Mark R.
Levin. A conservative manifesto from a talk-show host and president of Landmark Legal Foundation.
6. OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE, by Carl A.
Anderson and Eduardo Chavez. The history and message of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
7. A BOLD FRESH PIECE OF HUMANITY, by Bill O'Reilly. The Fox News commentator on his upbringing and career.
8. THE END OF OVEREATING, by David A. Kessler. How eating sugar, fat and salt affects our minds and bodies and encourages overindulgence.
9. THE WILDERNESS WARRIOR, by Douglas Brinkley. Theodore Roosevelt's crusade for conservation.
10. MICHAEL JACKSON, by J. Randy Taraborrelli. An updated version of a 1991 biography now covers Jackson's last years and his death.
Paperback fiction 1. THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE, by Audrey Niffenegger. Life with a dashing librarian who travels back and forth through time.
2. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, by Stieg Larsson. A hacker and a journalist investigate the disappearance of a Swedish heiress.
3. THE SHACK, by William P. Young. A man whose daughter was abducted receives an invitation to an isolated shack, apparently from God.
4. THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. A journalist meets the island's old Nazi-resisters.
5. THE WEIGHT OF SILENCE, by Heather Gudenkauf. When a selectively mute girl and her best friend vanish, family secrets come to the fore.
Paperback nonfiction 1. GLENN BECK'S 'COMMON SENSE', by Glenn Beck. Thomas Paine-inspired thoughts on government.
2. JULIE & JULIA, by Julie Powell. A memoir of racing to cook every recipe in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking.
3. MY LIFE IN FRANCE, by Julia Child with Alex Prud'homme. How Julia Child mastered the art of French cooking: a memoir.
4. THREE CUPS OF TEA, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. A former climber builds schools in villages in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
5. THE FAMILY, by Jeff Sharlet. The history of the Fellowship, a secretive evangelical group active in American politics.
Source: New York Times
Perspective, Pages 75 on 08/23/2009