Monthly Features


1	A RELIABLE WIFE, by Robert Goolrick. (Algonquin, $14.95.) Complications ensue when a wealthy Wisconsin widower in 1907 advertises for a wife.
2*	THE LAST SONG, by Nicholas Sparks. (Grand Central, $14.99.) A 17-year-old spends the summer with her father in North Carolina and finds many kinds of love.
3	DEAR JOHN, by Nicholas Sparks. (Grand Central, $7.99.) An unlikely romance between a soldier and an idealistic young woman is tested after 9/11.
4	THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, by Stieg Larsson. (Vintage, $14.95.) A hacker and a journalist investigate the disappearance of a Swedish heiress.
5	THE LOVELY BONES, by Alice Sebold. (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $14.99.) A girl looks down from heaven as she describes the aftermath of her murder.
6	SHANGHAI GIRLS, by Lisa See. (Random House, $15.) Two Chinese sisters in the 1930s are sold as wives to men from California.
7*	NAUTI DECEPTIONS, by Lora Leigh. (Berkley Sensation, $15.) A Kentucky sheriff tries to get a good girl turned bad to drop her defenses.
8	THE SHACK, by William P Young. (Windblown Media, $14.99) A man whose daughter was abducted receives an invitation to an isolated shack, apparently from God.
9	SARAH'S KEY, by Tatiana de Rosnay. (St. Martin's Griffin, $13.95.) A contemporary American journalist investigates what happened to a little girl and her family during the roundup of Jews in Paris in 1942.
10	TRUE COLORS, by Kristin Hannah. (St. Martin's Griffin, $14.99.) Two sisters grow up together in a small Washington town, betray each other and eventually reconcile.
11	THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN, by Garth Stein. (Harper Paperbacks, $14.99.) An insightful Lab-terrier mix helps his owner, a struggling race car driver.
12	OLIVE KITTERIDGE, by Elizabeth Strout. (Random House, $14.) A seventh-grade math teacher is the link in 13 stories set on the Maine coast; a 2009 Pulitzer winner.
13	THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. (DIAL, $14.) A journalist meets the island's old Nazi-resisters.
14	CUTTING FOR STONE, by Abraham Verghese. (Vintage, $15.95.) Twin brothers, conjoined and then separated, grow up amid the political turmoil of Ethiopia.
15	THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE, by Audrey Niffenegger. (Harvest/Harcourt, $14.95.) Life with a dashing librarian who travels back and forth through time.
16	PUSH, by Sapphire. (Vintage, $12.95.) An abused, illiterate 16-year-old girl living in Harlem meets a teacher who helps change her life.
17	LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN, by Colum McCann. (Random House, $15.) Philippe Petit's 1974 high-wire walk between the twin towers is pivotal to the lives in this novel, a winner of the 2009 National Book Award.
18	HOTEL ON THE CORNER OF BITTER AND SWEET, by Jamie Ford. (Ballantine, $15.) A friendship between a Chinese-American boy and a Japanese-American girl in Seattle during World War II.
19	THE PIANO TEACHER, by Janice Y.K. Lee. (Penguin, $15.) An Englishwoman in 1950s Hong Kong discovers devastating secrets from the years of the Japanese occupation.
20	THE ELEGANCE OF THE HEDGEHOG, by Muriel Barbery. (Europa, $15.) A young girl and a widowed concierge, both closet intellectuals, become friends.

1	DEAR JOHN, by Nicholas Sparks. (Grand Central, $7.99.) An unlikely romance between a soldier and an idealistic young woman is tested after 9/11.
2	HOT ROCKS, by Nora Roberts. (Jove, $7.99.) In this novel, previously published in "Remember When" (2003), the owner of an antiques shop is chased by an enigmatic stranger.
3	TATE, by Linda Lael Miller. (HQN, $7.99.) Tate McKettrick, divorced dad and ranch man, reunites with his high school sweetheart.
4	THE SCARECROW, by Michael Connelly. (Grand Central, $9.99.) A Los Angeles Times reporter tracks a devious killer.
5	THE LOVELY BONES, by Alice Sebold. (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $14.99.) A girl looks down from heaven as she describes the aftermath of her murder.
6	ONE DAY AT A TIME, by Danielle Steele. (Dell, $7.99.) A Hollywood mmother and her daughters all find love.
7	BACK IN BLACK, by Lori Foster. (Berkley, $7.99.) A public relations expert is called in to smooth the rough edges of the president of an SBC fighting organization.
8*	THE ELUSIVE BRIDE, by Stephanie Laurens. (Avon/HarperCollins, $7.99.) A former officer of the Crown, a love-struck lady, a deadly assassin; part of the Black Cobra Quartet.
9	ARCHANGEL'S KISS, by Nalini Singh. (Berkley Sensation, $7.99.) A vampire hunter and her archangel lover are invited to a party in Beijing, where danger awaits.
10	THE SILENT MAN, by Alex Berenson. (Jove, $9.99.) The C.I.A. agent John Wells is on the case when Islamic terrorists steal Russian nuclear warheads.
11	ANGEL'S PEAK, by Robyn Carr. (Mira, $7.99.) A formerly committment-phobic pilot learns his old Air Force girlfriend left him while pregnant with his daughter.
12	THE DEVIL'S PUNCHBOWL, by Greg Iles. (Pocket Star, $9.99.) The mayor of Natchez, Miss., pursues a killer who opposes his attempt to clean up riverboat gambling.
13	NIGHT AND DAY, by Robert B. Parker. (Berkley, $9.99.) Jesse Stone, the police chief of Paradise, Mass., chases a voyeur who forces women to strip at gunpoint.
14*	DEAD BY MIDNIGHT,by Beverly Barton. (Kensington, $7.99.) A former Hollywood actress now living in Alabama is stalked by a serial killer.
15	BONE CROSSED, by Patricia Briggs. (Ace, $7.99.) A shapeshifter who works as an auto mechanic in Washington State is menaced by a vampire.
16	PLUM SPOOKY, by Janet Evanovich. (St. Martin's, $7.99.) The bounty hunter Stephanie Plum hunts an evil genius and his sidekick, who are hiding in New Jersey's Pine Barrens.
17*	THE CINDERELLA DEAL, by Jennifer Crusie. (Bantam, $7.99.) To secure a job, a history professor needs a fiancee, and his neighbor is willing to play the part.
18	FUGITIVE, by Phillip Margolin. (Harper/HarperCollins, $9.99.) A thief turned hero turned suspected assassin returns to the United States from Africa, pursued by more than one killer.
19*	SHUTTER ISLAND, by Dennis Lehane. (Harper, $7.99.) A United States marshal hunts for a beautiful patient escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane on an island in Boston's outer harbor.
20	ECSTASY UNVEILED, by Larissa Ione. (Forever/Grand Central, $6.99.) An angel and a demon battle an intense attraction to each other; a Demonica novel.

1	THE LOST CITY OF Z, by David Grann. (Vintage Departures, $15.95.) A New Yorker writer searches for a British explorer who was lost in the Amazon in 1925.
2	THE BLIND SIDE, by Michael Lewis. (Norton, $13.95.) The evolving business of football, viewed through the rise of the left tackle Michael Oher.
3	THREE CUPS OF TEA, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. (Penguin Books, $15.) A former mountain climber builds schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
4	A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, by Howard Zinn. (Harper Perennial, $18.95.) An account from the point of view of women, African Americans and others who are often marginalized.
5	ARE YOU THERE, VODKA? IT'S ME, CHELSEA, by Chelsea Handler. (Simon Spotlight Entertainment, $16.) Humorous personal essays from the comedian.
6	EAT, PRAY, LOVE, by Elizabeth Gilbert. (Penguin, $15.) A writer's yearlong journey in search of self.
7	IN DEFENSE OF FOOD, by Michael Pollan. (Penguin, $15.) A manifesto urges us to "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."
8	I HOPE THEY SERVE BEER IN HELL, by Tucker Max. (Citadel, $12.95.) Reflections of a self-absorbed, drunken womanizer.
9	THE OMNIVORE'S DILEMMA, by Michael Pollan. (Penguin, $16.) Tracking food from soil to plate.
10	FREAKONOMICS, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. (Harper Perennial, $15.99.) A maverick scholar and a journalist apply economic theory to everything from cheating sumo wrestlers to the falling crime rate.
11*	THE TIPPING POINT, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $14.95.) A study of social epidemics.
12	THE GLASS CASTLE, by Jeannette Walls. (Scribner, $15.) The author recalls a bizarre childhood during which she and her siblings moved constantly.
13	LONE SURVIVOR, by Marcus Luttrell with Patrick Robinson. (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $15; Little, Brown, $8.99.) The harrowing story of a Navy Seals operation.
14*	SAME KIND OF DIFFERENT AS ME, by Ron Hall and Denver Moore with Lynn Vincent. (Nelson, $14.99.) The unlikely friendship between a homeless drifter and a successful art dealer who meet at a shelter in Texas.
15	BLINK, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Back Bay/Little Brown, $15.99.) The importance of instinct to the workings of the mind.
16	THE NEXT 100 YEARS, by George Friedman. (Anchor, $15.95.) The analyst and forecaster's global predictions for the coming century.
17*	MY HORIZONTAL LIFE, by Chelsea Handler. (Bloomsbury, $14.95.) A memoir of one-night stands.
18	MOUNTAINS BEYOND MOUNTAINS, by Tracy Kidder. (Random House, $15.95 and $18.) A portrait of Dr. Paul Farmer, who works with the Haitian poor.
19	HOW WE DECIDE, by Jonah Lehrer. (Mariner, $14.95.) Learning more about how we think can help us make better decisions.
20	ANIMALS MAKE US HUMAN, by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson. (Mariner/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $15.95.) Helping animals have better lives.

1	FOOD RULES, by Michael Pollan. (Penguin, $11.) A manual for healthy eating, from the author of "The Omnivore's Dilemma."
2	THE BELLY FAT CURE, by Jorge Cruise. (Hay House, $19.95.) Do-over recipes using the "Carb Swap System" steer you away from foods full of hidden sweeteners and processed carbohydrates.
3	WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU'RE EXPECTING, by Heidi Murkoff and Sharon Mazel. (Workman, $14.95.) Advice for parents-to-be.
4	COOK THIS, NOT THAT!, by David Zinczenko and Matt Goulding. (Rodale, $19.99.) Saving calories by cooking "restaurant" offerings at home.
5	THE LOVE DARE, by Stephen and Alex Kendrick with Lawrence Kimbrough. (B&H, $14.99.) A 40-day challenge for spouses to practice unconditional love.
6	THE FIVE LOVE LANGUAGES, by Gary Chapman. (Northfield, $13.99.) How to communicate love in a way a spouse will understand.
7	WOMEN AND MONEY, by Suze Orman. (Spiegel & Grau, $9.99.) The financial guru tailors her financial advice especially for women.
8	SKINNY BITCH, by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin. (Running Press, $13.95.) Stop eating junk and start looking fabulous.
9	THE PURPOSE-DRIVEN LIFE, by Rick Warren. (Zondervan, $14.99.) Finding meaning in one's life through God.
10	FLAT BELLY DIET!, by Liz Vaccariello and Cynthia Sass. (Rodale, $15.99.) Nutrition advice and workout tips from the editors of Prevention magazine.