Combined Print and E-Book Fiction
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#1 FIFTY SHADES OF GREY
E L James
An inexperienced college student falls in love with a tortured man who has particular sexual tastes; the first book in a trilogy.
On the bestsellers list for 10 weeks
#2 FIFTY SHADES DARKER
E L James
Ana Steele learns more about Christian Grey’s troubled past; the second book in a trilogy.
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#3 FIFTY SHADES FREED
E L James
The final book in an erotic trilogy.
On the bestsellers list for 9 weeks
#4 THE LAST BOYFRIEND
Nora Roberts
As the Montgomery brothers renovate their historic inn in Boonsboro, Md., Owen Montgomery reconnects with his first girlfriend.
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#5 DEADLOCKED
Charlaine Harris
The telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse investigates a murder that has more to do with her than she imagines.
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#6 THE INNOCENT
David Baldacci
A hitman who has become a target of the government rescues a teenage girl whose parents have been murdered.
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#7 THE LUCKY ONE
Nicholas Sparks
A Marine returning home sets out to track down the woman whose photo he found in Iraq.
On the bestsellers list for 12 weeks
#8 FIFTY SHADES TRILOGY
E L James
The three “Fifty Shades” novels in one bundle.
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#9 THE WITNESS
Nora Roberts
A programmer hides from the Russian mob in the Ozarks.
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#10 CALICO JOE
John Grisham
A pitcher beans a promising rookie, ending both careers; years later, the pitcher’s son brings them together.
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#11 ON THE ISLAND
Tracey Garvis-Graves
An English teacher and the teenage boy she has agreed to tutor are stranded on an island when the seaplane taking them to join his family in the Maldives crashes in the Indian Ocean.
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#12 THE MARRIAGE BARGAIN
Jennifer Probst
A billionaire who needs a wife offers a one-year marriage in name only to a bookstore owner.
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#13 THE WIND THROUGH THE KEYHOLE
Stephen King
A new entry in the Dark Tower epic western-fantasy series; this novel, King says, is “Dark Tower 4.5.”
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#14 GUILTY WIVES
James Patterson and David Ellis
Four friends in Monte Carlo for a luxurious girls’ vacation find themselves in prison.
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#15 A GAME OF THRONES
George R R Martin
In the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are mustering.
On the bestsellers list for 29 weeks
#16 SUNRISE POINT
Ron Carr
A marine returns to Virgin River and falls for a striking single mother who is nothing like the wife he imagined.
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#17 ABRAHAM LINCOLN - VAMPIRE HUNTER
Seth Grahame-Smith
A journal reveals Lincoln’s fight against the undead; by the author of “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies."
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#18 A BREWING STORM
Richard Castle
Derrick Storm, who faked his own death to leave the C.I.A., is called back to Washington to investigate a high-profile kidnapping.
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#19 ROBERT B. PARKER'S LULLABY
Ace Atkins
Spenser helps a teenagerl investigate her mother’s murder; a continuation of the series by Parker, who died in 2010.
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#20 THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST
Stieg Larsson
In the last volume of the Millennium trilogy, Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander are threatened by an adversary from deep within the government.
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