LITTLE ROCK — Fiction
1. THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST, by Stieg Larsson. The third volume of a trilogy about a Swedish hacker and a journalist.
2. THE LION, by Nelson DeMille. John Corey, now a federal agent, pursues a Libyan terrorist who has returned to America bent on revenge.
3. THE PASSAGE, by Justin Cronin. More than a hundred years in the future, a small group resists the vampires who have taken over North America.
4. THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett. A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s Mississippi.
5. THE SPY, by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott. In 1908, a detective investigates spies who are trying to keep America from developing dreadnought battleships.
6. DEAD IN THE FAMILY, by Charlaine Harris. Sookie Stackhouse is exhausted in the aftermath of a Faery war.
7. 61 HOURS, by Lee Child. Jack Reacher helps the police in a small South Dakota town protect a witness in a drug trial.
8. BULLET, by Laurell K. Hamilton. Anita Blake, vampire hunter, is menaced by the Mother of All Darkness, who wants to take over her body.
9. STORM PREY, by John Sandford. Lucas Davenport’s wife is a witness to a botched robbery and murder in the 20th novel in the Prey series.
10. INNOCENT, by Scott Turow. Turow revisits the characters from Presumed Innocent.
Nonfiction
1. ----- MY DAD SAYS, by Justin Halpern. A coming-of-age memoir organized around the musings, purveyed on Twitter, of the author’s father.
2. MEDIUM RAW, by Anthony Bourdain. The author of Kitchen Confidential looks critically both at the changes in the food and restaurant culture in the past 10 years and at the people responsible for them.
3. SPOKEN FROM THE HEART, by Laura Bush. A memoir from the former first lady.
4. THE BIG SHORT, by Michael Lewis. The people who saw the real estate crash coming and made billions from their foresight. 5. WAR, by Sebastian Junger. The intense lives of American soldiers in a lethal corner of Afghanistan, by the author of The Perfect Storm. 6. CHELSEA CHELSEA BANG BANG, by Chelsea Handler. More humorous personal essays from the comedian.
7. CHANGE YOUR BRAIN, CHANGE YOUR BODY, by Daniel G. Amen. Using the brain-body connection to lose weight and avoid depression. 8. THE LAST STAND, by Nathaniel Philbrick. Custer, Sitting Bull and the Battle of the Little Big Horn. 9. HITCH-22, by Christopher Hitchens. The trans-Atlantic journalist’s memoir. 10. OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. Why some people succeed, from the author of Blink.
Paperback fiction
1. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, by Stieg Larsson. A hacker and a journalist investigate the disappearance of a Swedish heiress.
2. THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE,
by Stieg Larsson. A Swedish hacker becomes a murder suspect. 3. LITTLE BEE, by Chris Cleave. The lives of a British woman and a Nigerian girl collide. 4. BEST FRIENDS FOREVER, by Jennifer Weiner. Childhood friends, estranged in high school, reunite years later when one needs help. 5. SOUTH OF BROAD, by Pat Conroy. An unlikely group’s friendship from the ’60s to the ’80s, by the author of The Prince of Tides.
Paperback nonfiction
1. EAT, PRAY, LOVE, by Elizabeth Gilbert. A writer’s yearlong journey in search of self takes her to Italy, India and Indonesia. 2. THREE CUPS OF TEA, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. A former climber builds schools in villages in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
3. ARE YOU THERE, VODKA? IT’S ME, CHELSEA, by Chelsea Handler. Humorous personal essays from the comedian. 4. MY HORIZONTAL LIFE, by Chelsea Handler. A memoir of one-night stands. 5. THE GLASS CASTLE, by Jeannette Walls. The author recalls a bizarre childhood during which she was constantly on the move.
Perspective, Pages 83 on 06/27/2010