-Book Fiction on List

Weeks

1 TAKEDOWN TWENTY, by Janet Evanovich. (Bantam.) The New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum pursues a mobster on the lam. 1

2 KING AND MAXWELL, by David Baldacci. (Hachette.) Sean King and Michelle Maxwell, former Secret Service agents turned private investigators, scrutinize a soldiers mysterious death in Afghanistan. 1

3 SYCAMORE ROW, by John Grisham. (Doubleday.) A sequel, about race and inheritance, to A Time to Kill. 5

4 11/22/63, by Stephen King. (Scribner.) An English teacher travels back to 1958 by way of a time portal in a Maine diner. His assignment is to stop Lee Harvey Oswald. 24

5 BEAUTIFUL BEGINNING, by Christina Lauren. (Simon & Schuster.) The next installment in the Beautiful Bastard series. 1

6 THE GOLDFINCH, by Donna Tartt. (Little, Brown.) A painting smuggled out of the Metropolitan Museum of Art after a bombing becomes a boys prize, guilt and burden. 5

7 DARK WITCH, by Nora Roberts. (Berkley.) In the first book of the Cousins O'Dwyer trilogy, Iona Sheehan moves to Ireland to investigate her family's history. 4

8 DUST, by Patricia Cornwell. (Putnam Adult.) The murder of a computer engineer at M.I.T. leads the Massachusetts Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta in unexpected directions. 2

9 THE HUSBAND'S SECRET, by Liane Moriarty. (Amy Einhorn/Putnam.) A womans life is upended when she discovers a letter from her husband she was not meant to read until after his death. 17

10 MEANT FOR LOVE, by Marie Force. (HTJB.) In Book 10 of the McCarthys of Gansett Island series, Jenny Wilks, the island's lighthouse keeper, connects with Alex Martinez, who has returned to care for his ailing mother .Will their summer romance last?