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A look at Random House, Inc.'s bestselling fiction hardcovers across the country.
HIGHLIGHTS FROM:
Barnes & Noble list dating from November 19, 2008
Book Sense list dating from November 27, 2008
USA Today list dating from November 27, 2008
Barnes & Noble College list dating from December 5, 2008
New York Times list dating from December 7, 2008
The Private Patient
Written by P. D. James
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: November 18, 2008
Price: $25.95
Cheverell Manor is a lovely old house in deepest Dorset, now a private clinic belonging to the famous plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell. When investigative journalist Rhoda Gradwyn arrived there one late autumn afternoon, scheduled to have a disfiguring and long-standing facial scar removed, she had every expectation of a successful operation...
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A Good Woman
Written by Danielle Steel
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2008
Price: $27.00
From the glittering ballrooms of Manhattan to the fires of World War I, Danielle Steel takes us on an unforgettable journey in her new novel—a spellbinding tale of war, loss, history, and one woman’s unbreakable spirit...
Nineteen-year-old Annabelle Worthington was born into a life of privilege, raised amid the glamour of New...
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A Mercy
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $23.95
A powerful tragedy distilled into a jewel of a masterpiece by the Nobel Prize–winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier. In the 1680s the slave trade was still in its infancy. In the Americas, virulent religious and class divisions, prejudice and oppression were...
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Written by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: July 29, 2008
Price: $22.00
“ I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers.” January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject...
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Swallowing Darkness
A Novel
Written by Laurell K. Hamilton
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Price: $26.00
I am Meredith, princess of faerie, wielder of the hands of Flesh and Blood, and at long last, I am with child–twins, fathered by my royal guard. Though my uncle, Taranis, King of Light and Illusion, claims that he is the true father since he abducted me from my home, betrayed...
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Written by Stieg Larsson
Translated by Reg Keeland
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2008
Price: $24.95
A sensation across Europe—millions of copies sold
A spellbinding amalgam of murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue.
It’s about the disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden . . . and about her octogenarian uncle, determined to know the...
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Bones
An Alex Delaware Novel
Written by Jonathan Kellerman
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: October 21, 2008
Price: $27.00
When it comes to writing deftly layered, tightly coiled novels of suspense, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman reigns supreme as “master of the psychological thriller” ( People). Now, Kellerman has worked his magic again in this chilling new masterpiece. The anonymous caller has an ominous tone and an unnerving message...
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Dragonheart
Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern
Written by Todd J. McCaffrey
Format: Hardcover, 560 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $27.00
Todd McCaffrey’s first solo novel in the classic Dragonriders of Pern series, Dragonsblood, was hailed by critics and embraced by the countless devoted readers of the landmark science fiction saga created by his mother, Anne McCaffrey. Now the chronicles of Pern take another captivating turn as the embattled planet, the brave...
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