Hardcover Fiction
October 25, 2009
The Lost Symbol The Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon among the Masons.
A Touch of Dead The complete Sookie Stackhouse stories.
The Help Three women — a white socialite and two black maids — work on a tell-all book about black domestic servants in 1960s Mississippi.
The Professional Rich women are turning up dead, and the Boston P.I. Spenser investigates.
The Last Song A 17-year-old girl spends the summer with her divorced father in North Carolina and finds many kinds of love.
Evidence The Los Angeles psychologist-detective Alex Delaware helps solve the grisly murder of an architect and his companion.
Half Broke Horses A re-creation of the life of the author’s grandmother — a mustang breaker, schoolteacher, ranch wife and mother of two — in the Southwest.
An Echo in the Bone Jamie Fraser and his time-traveling wife, Claire, encounter pirates on the high seas; the seventh Outlander novel.
Rough Country Virgil Flowers investigates a string of murders at a Minnesota resort for women.
Her Fearful Symmetry A woman haunts the flat she’s left to her twin nieces near Highgate Cemetery in London.
The Ghost King In the final book of the Transitions fantasy series, Drizzt faces a powerful foe, a demonic crystal shard.
The Christmas List A man changes his life after he reads his own obituary and learns what others think of him.
The Unseen Academicals In this Discworld fantasy, the benevolent tyrant of Ankh-Morpork suggests that Unseen University put together a football team.
South of Broad An unlikely group’s friendship from the ’60s to the ’80s, by the author of "The Prince of Tides."
Dead and Gone Sookie Stackhouse searches for the killer of a werepanther.
Hardcover Nonfiction
October 25, 2009
Have a Little Faith A suburban rabbi and a Detroit pastor teach lessons about the comfort of belief.
Arguing with Idiots Making the case against big government.
True Compass The late senator’s autobiography.
Where Men Win Glory The story of Pat Tillman, the N.F.L. player who enlisted after 9/11, and the Army’s cover-up of his death by friendly fire in Afghanistan.
The Murder of King Tut Investigating the Boy King’s sudden death.
The Time of My Life A memoir by the actor, who died in September, and his wife.
Outliers Unexpected factors that explain why some people succeed, such as upbringing, timing and 10,000 hours of deliberate practice.
The Greatest Show on Earth Evidence for evolution; a counterattack on advocates of intelligent design.
The National Parks A companion to the PBS series.
Half the Sky Women’s equality as the “paramount moral challenge” of our era.
High on Arrival The actress and daughter of Papa John Phillips recalls a life of parties, drugs and a complicated relationship with her father.
Official Book Club Selection A humorous memoir from the star of “My Life on the D-List.”
American on Purpose The Scottish-born comedian describes his journey to late-night television stardom and American citizenship.
The Case for God Armstrong, a former nun, seeks to rescue the idea of God from atheists and literal-minded believers alike.
Read My Pins A look at the former secretary of state’s life, and her diplomacy, through the brooches she wore.