TOP 5 FICTION AND NON-FICTION BOOKS
FICTION
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
(Riverhead: $25.95)
Two Afghan women struggle to survive jihad, civil war and Taliban tyranny.
You’ve Been Warned by James Patterson
and Howard Roughan
(Little, Brown: $27.99)
A nanny falls in love with the father of her charges; trouble follows.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
(Riverhead: $24.95)
A sci-fi-loving nerd and his immigrant family are haunted by the past.
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux: $27)
The saga of an undercover CIA agent, beginning with the Tet offensive in Vietnam.
Pontoon by Garrison Keillor
(Viking: $25.95)
The latest from Lake Wobegon details the funeral preparations for Evelyn Peterson, recently deceased.
NON-FICTION
Giving by Bill Clinton(Knopf: $24.95)The former president and now foundation head describes how giving our money and time can change the world
The Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn
and Hal Iggulden
(HarperCollins: $24.95)
Learn how to tie knots, find true north and other essential skills.
The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman
(W.W. Norton: $24.95)
How the Warsaw Zoo director and his wife tried to shelter Polish Jews during World War II
The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
(Beyond Words: $23.95)
Life’s secrets distilled from oral tradition, literature, religion and philosophy.
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
(Thomas Dunne: $24.95)
An eye-popping look at how our planet might fare if there were no people on
