LATEST FICTION BOOKS OF 2013
1. SYCAMORE
ROW,
by John
Grisham. (Doubleday.) A sequel, about race and inheritance, to
“A Time to Kill.”
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2. THE
GOLDFINCH,
by Donna
Tartt. (Little, Brown.) A painting smuggled out of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art after a bombing becomes a boy’s prize, guilt and burden.
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3. ENDER'S
GAME,
by Orson
Scott Card. (Tor/Tom Doherty.) Government agencies breed child
geniuses and train them as soldiers. Originally published in 1985.
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4. WE
ARE WATER,
by Wally
Lamb. (Harper.) About to marry the woman who is her gallery owner, a
divorced artist and mother must confront secrets from her past.
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5. THE
HUSBAND'S SECRET,
by Liane
Moriarty. (Amy Einhorn/Putnam.) A woman’s life is upended when she
discovers a letter from her husband she was not meant to read.
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6. DOCTOR
SLEEP,
by Stephen
King. (Scribner.) Now grown up, Dan, the boy with psycho-intuitive
powers in “The Shining,” helps another child with a spectacular gift.
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7. THE
TEMPTATION OF LILA AND ETHAN, by Jessica Sorensen. (Grand
Central.) Lila Summers and Ethan Gregory are close friends, but will they
become even closer?
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8. THE
LONGEST RIDE,
by Nicholas
Sparks. (Grand Central.) The lives of two couples converge
unexpectedly.
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9. STORM
FRONT,
by John
Sandford. (Putnam.) The Minnesota investigator Virgil Flowers becomes
involved in the hunt for an ancient inscribed stone smuggled out of the
Middle East.
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10. IDENTICAL, by Scott
Turow. (Grand Central.) Paul Giannis, running for mayor of Kindle
County, is accused of having played a role in the murder of his identical
twin brother’s girlfriend — for which his brother, Cass, has already served
time.
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11. TREASURE
YOUR LOVE,
by J.C.
Reed. (J.C. Reed.) Continuing the story of Brooke Stewart and Jett
Mayfield begun in "Surrender Your Love" and "Conquer Your
Love."
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12. GONE, by James
Patterson and Michael Ledwidge. (Little, Brown.)
Detective Michael Bennett, living with his 10 adopted children on a
California farm, is pursued by the head of a Mexican drug cartel he once put
in jail.
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13. FIFTY
SHADES OF GREY,
by E.
L. James. (Vintage.) An innocent college student falls in love with a
tortured man with particular sexual tastes; the first of a trilogy.
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14. THE
RACKETEER,
by John
Grisham. (Doubleday.) An imprisoned ex-lawyer schemes to exchange
information about who murdered a judge for his freedom.
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15. GONE
GIRL,
by Gillian
Flynn. (Crown.) A woman disappears on the day of her fifth
anniversary; is her husband a killer?
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