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A look at Random House, Inc.'s bestselling fiction hardcovers across the country.
HIGHLIGHTS FROM:
Book Sense list dating from October 29, 2009
USA Today list dating from October 29, 2009
Barnes & Noble list dating from November 4, 2009
New York Times list dating from November 8, 2009
The Lost Symbol
Written by Dan Brown
Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $29.95
In this stunning follow-up to the global phenomenon The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown demonstrates once again why he is the world's most popular thriller writer. The Lost Symbol is a masterstroke of storytelling—a deadly race through a real-world labyrinth of codes, secrets, and unseen truths . . . all under...
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Southern Lights
A Novel
Written by Danielle Steel
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $28.00
Danielle Steel sweeps us from a Manhattan courtroom to the Deep South in her powerful new novel—at once a behind-closed-doors look into the heart of a family and a tale of crime and punishment.
Eleven years have passed since Alexa Hamilton left the South behind, fleeing the pain of her ex-husband’s betrayal...
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Last Night in Twisted River
A Novel
Written by John Irving
Format: Hardcover, 576 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $28.00
In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable’s girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County–to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto–pursued by the implacable constable...
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Angel Time
The Songs of the Seraphim
Written by Anne Rice
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $25.95
Anne Rice returns to the mesmerizing storytelling that has captivated readers for more than three decades in a tale of unceasing suspense set in time past—a metaphysical thriller about angels and assassins. The novel opens in the present. At its center: Toby O’Dare—a contract killer of underground fame on assignment to kill...
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An Echo in the Bone
A Novel
Written by Diana Gabaldon
Format: Hardcover, 832 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $30.00
Diana Gabaldon’s brilliant storytelling has captivated millions of readers in her bestselling and award-winning Outlander saga. Now, in An Echo in the Bone, the enormously anticipated seventh volume, Gabaldon continues the extraordinary story of the eighteenth-century Scotsman Jamie Fraser and his twentieth-century time-traveling wife, Claire Randall. Jamie Fraser, former Jacobite and reluctant...
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Evidence
An Alex Delaware Novel
Written by Jonathan Kellerman
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $28.00
#1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman writes unforgettable tales of crime and detection that expose the shadowy side of glittering Los Angeles. And in Evidence, readers are once again in the dexterous grip of a master storyteller and stylist equally skilled at teasing your brain and taking your breath...
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South of Broad
Written by Pat Conroy
Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $29.95
The publishing event of the season: The one and only Pat Conroy returns, with a big, sprawling novel that is at once a love letter to Charleston and to lifelong friendship.Against the sumptuous backdrop of Charleston, South Carolina, South of Broad gathers a unique cast of sinners and saints. Leopold Bloom...
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The Vintage Caper
Written by Peter Mayle
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $24.95
Set in Hollywood, Paris, Bordeaux, and Marseille, Peter Mayle’s newest and most delightful novel is filled with culinary delights, sumptuous wines, and colorful characters. It’s also a lot of fun. The story begins high above Los Angeles, at the extravagant home and equally impressive wine cellar of entertainment lawyer Danny Roth. Unfortunately...
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The Girl Who Played with Fire
Written by Stieg Larsson
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: July 28, 2009
Price: $25.95
Mikael Blomkvist, crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millennium, has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden, implicating well-known and highly placed members of Swedish society, business, and government. But he has no idea just how explosive the story will...
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Star Wars: Death Troopers
Written by Joe Schreiber
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $24.00
When the Imperial prison barge Purge–temporary home to five hundred of the galaxy’s most ruthless killers, rebels, scoundrels, and thieves–breaks down in a distant, uninhabited part of space, its only hope appears to lie with a Star Destroyer found drifting, derelict, and seemingly abandoned. But when a boarding party from the...
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The Children's Book
Written by A.S. Byatt
Format: Hardcover, 688 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $26.95
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
A spellbinding novel, at once sweeping and intimate, from the Booker Prize–winning author of Possession, that spans the Victorian era through the World War I years, and centers around a famous children’s book author and the passions, betrayals, and secrets that tear apart the people she...
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A Gate at the Stairs
Written by Lorrie Moore
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Price: $25.95
In her best-selling story collection, Birds of America (“[it] will stand by itself as one of our funniest, most telling anatomies of human love and vulnerability” —James McManus, front page of The New York Times Book Review), Lorrie Moore wrote about the disconnect between men and women, about the precariousness of...
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Also available as an
eBook.
Ford County: Stories
Written by John Grisham
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $24.00
In his first collection of short stories John Grisham takes us back to Ford County, Mississippi, the setting of his first novel, A Time to Kill. Wheelchair-bound Inez Graney and her two older sons, Leon and Butch, take a bizarre road trip through the Mississippi Delta to visit the youngest Graney brother...
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