Fiction:

Sandra Brown, Rainwater

Jennifer Chiaverini, Quilter’s Holiday

Clive Cussler, The Wrecker

W.E.B. Griffin, The Honor of Spies

Linda Howard, Ice

Kate Jacobs, Knit the Season

Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna

Jayne Ann Krentz, Fired Up

John Sandford, Rough Country

Jeanette Walls, Half Broke Horses

Mystery:

Nevada Barr, 13½

Deborah Crombie, Necessary as Blood

Sue Grafton, U Is for Undertow

J.D. Robb, Kindred in Death

Nonfiction:

Karen Armstrong, The Case for God

Malcolm Gladwell, What the Dog Saw