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Updated Saturday, December 5, 2009 2:40 pm TWN, PAGEONE Monthly Bestsellers1 THE ASSOCIATE by John Grisham A young law school student is blackmailed by a firm with shady details of his past to provide inside information on a billion-dollar lawsuit case. 2 THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE by Stieg Larsson A fantastic thriller where the heroine Lisbeth Salander pairs with a journalist to investigate a sinister criminal enterprise. 3 WHEN YOU ARE ENGULFED IN FLAMES by David Sedaris A collection of essays from humorist David Sedaris on conundrums of daily life to the most deeply resonant human truths. 4 REMEMBER ME by Sophie Kinsella A woman wakes up from a coma finding she somehow went from a working girl to a corporate big-shot, with no recollection of how this happened. 5 THE READER (Movie tie-in edition) by Bernhard Schlink A tale of sex, love, reading, and shame in postwar Germany that follows 15-year-old Michael Berg's obsession with his older lover and struggles with her Nazi past. 6 THE ALCHEMIST by Paulo Coelho A shepherd boy journeys the world with dreams of success, yet is derailed and enlightened by a fateful encounter with an enigmatic alchemist. 7 PRIDE & PREJUDICE & ZOMBIES by Jane Austen & Smith Grahame Sprightly heroine Elizabeth Bennett is intelligent, outspoken and a zombie killer in this delightful comedy that re-imagines Jane Austen's classic novel. 8 LIFE OF PI by Yann Martel This Booker-prize winner is a superb story of a boy trapped on a lifeboat with dangerous wild animals, in the process offering rich examinations of religion, isolation, and love. 9 JULIE AND JULIA by Julie Powell In the book on which the movie “Julia and Julia” was based, Julie Powell emulates American cook Julia Childs by completing her 524 recipes in a year in an attempt to reignite the fire in her life. 10 1984 by George Orwell A dystopian purgatory is captured by a futuristic and totalitarianism world in the classic that brought the term, “Big brother” into the English vernacular. |
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