Sunday, August 19, 2012

HARDCOVER FICTION

1 1 GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn. (Crown, $25.) A woman disappears on her fifth anniversary; is her husband a killer? 10 Buy 2 SWEET TALK, by Julie Garwood. (Dutton, $26.95.) An I.R.S. officer and an F.B.I. agent fight corruption, and a mutual attraction, while investigating a Ponzi scheme. 1 Buy 3 * 3 WHERE WE BELONG, by Emily Giffin. (St. Martin's, $27.99.) A woman’s successful life is disrupted by the appearance of an 18-year-old girl with a link to her past. 3 Buy 4 CHARON'S CLAW, by R. A. Salvatore. (Wizards of the Coast, $27.95.) In Book 3 of the Neverwinter Saga, Drizzt and Dahlia plot revenge against the Netherese lord Herzgo Alegni. 1 Buy 5 2 ODD APOCALYPSE, by Dean Koontz. (Bantam, $28.) Odd Thomas, who can communicate with the dead, explores the mysteries of an old estate now owned by a billionaire. 2 Buy 6 THE SPYMASTERS, by W. E. B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV. (Putnam, $27.95.) In the seventh book in the Men at War series, O.S.S. agents must sabotage Germany’s rocket plans and protect the Manhattan Project. 1 Buy 7 * 7 THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS, by M. L. Stedman. (Scribner, $25.) An Australian lighthouse keeper and his wife decide to keep a baby who has washed ashore. 2 Buy 8 TIME UNTIME, by Sherrilyn Kenyon. (St. Martin’s, $25.99.) Kateri Avani must face a Keetoowah warrior, and Ren Waya must come back from the dead to prevent the world from ending in this Dark-Hunter novel. 1 Buy 9 5 BLACK LIST, by Brad Thor. (Emily Bestler/Atria, $27.99.) If the counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath can discover who targeted him for death, he can prevent a terrorist attack. 3 Buy 10 * 6 THE FALLEN ANGEL, by Daniel Silva. (Harper/HarperCollins, $27.99.) Gabriel Allon, an art restorer and occasional spy for the Israeli secret service, discovers a global criminal enterprise behind a murder at the Vatican. 4 Buy 11 4 FRIENDS FOREVER, by Danielle Steel. (Delacorte, $28.) Three boys and two girls who meet in kindergarten maintain their bonds as they grow to adulthood. 3 Buy 12 10 A DANCE WITH DRAGONS, by George R. R. Martin. (Bantam, $35.) After a colossal battle, the Seven Kingdoms face new threats; Book 5 of "A Song of Ice and Fire." 53 Books of The Times Review | Related Article Buy 13 8 I, MICHAEL BENNETT, by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) A New York detective takes refuge with his 10 children in an upstate cabin. 5 Buy 14 9 SHADOW OF NIGHT, by Deborah Harkness. (Viking, $28.95.) An Oxford scholar/witch and a vampire geneticist pursue history, secrets and each other in Elizabethan London; Book 2 of the All Souls trilogy. 5 Buy 15 YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW, by Lisa Jackson. (Kensington, $25.) A woman whose toddler went missing two years ago suspects that he’s still alive, but everyone around her thinks she’s lost her mind. 1

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