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New York Times Best Sellers List: Fiction | Nonfiction
Last updated on: November 14, 2008

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Title: The Gate House
Author: Nelson DeMille
Summary: In a sequel to “The Gold Coast” (1990) a tax attorney and his ex-wife explore a reconciliation.

2


Title: Extreme Measures
Author: Vince Flynn
Summary: Mitch Rapp teams up with a C.I.A. colleague to fight a terrorist cell — and the politicians who would rein them in.

3


Title: The Brass Verdict
Author: Michael Connelly
Summary: Harry Bosch and Mickey Haller (the Lincoln lawyer) team up to find a killer.

4


Title: The Lucky One
Author: Nicholas Sparks
Summary: A marine returning home sets out to find the woman whose photo he found in Iraq.

5


Title: A Good Woman
Author: Danielle Steel
Summary: An American society girl who made a new life as a doctor in World War I France returns to New York.

6


Title: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
Author: David Wroblewski
Summary: A mute takes refuge with three dogs in the Wisconsin woods after his uncle murders his father.

7


Title: Bones
Author: Jonathan Kellerman
Summary: The psychologist-detective Alex Delaware is called in when women’s bodies keep turning up in a Los Angeles marsh.

8


Title: Rough Weather
Author: Robert B. Parker
Summary: The Boston private eye Spenser gets involved when a gunman kidnaps the bride from her wedding on a private island.

9


Title: Testimony
Author: Anita Shreve
Summary: A sex scandal at a Vermont prep school is caught on tape.

10


Title: A Lion Among Men
Author: Gregory Maguire
Summary: A looming civil war in Oz, seen through the eyes of the Cowardly Lion; the sequel to “Wicked” and “Son of a Witch.”