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1TDTHE CORRECTIONS by Jonathan Franzen (Farrar, Straus & Giroux: $26) The saga of a dysfunctional Midwestern family living at the end of the 20th century.TD1TD23TR

2TDTHE MILLIONAIRES by Brad Meltzer (Warner: $25.95) Two brothers who loot the account of a deceased client at a private bank get more than they bargained for.TD3TD4TR

3TDTISHOMINGO BLUES by Elmore Leonard (William Morrow: $25.95) A high diver plunges into the Delta drug trade and the Dixie Mafia after witnessing a murder from atop his rig.TD--TD1TR

4TDUP COUNTRY by Nelson Demille (Warner: $26.95) A U.S. Army investigator travels to Vietnam to probe a 30-year-old murder in which the only living eyewitness is an enemy soldier. TD--TD1TR

5TDBASKET CASE by Carl Hiaasen (Alfred A. Knopf: $25.95) Once a hotshot reporter, an obituary writer for a small paper unravels the bizarre causes for the death of a rock star. TD2TD5TR

6TDROSCOE by William Kennedy (Viking: $24.95) Politico Roscoe Conway oils the machine of 1940s Albany, trying to keep his Democrats one step ahead of Republican investigators. TD5TD2TR

7TDHATESHIP, FRIENDSHIP, COURTSHIP, LOVESHIP, MARRIAGE by Alice Munro (Alfred A. Knopf: $24) Stories tracing the nuanced lives of women and their relationships. TD4TD10TR

8TDONE DOOR AWAY FROM HEAVEN by Dean Koontz (Bantam: $26.95) UFO-ology hovers over this tale of the FBI’s pursuit of an unusual boy and a woman’s efforts to save a girl from her parents.TD6TD5TR

9TDHARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE by J.K. Rowling (Scholastic: $25.95) Harry competes in the great Triwizard Tournament and is pursued by the sinister Lord Voldemort. TD--TD12TR

10TDI’LL LET YOU GO by Bruce Wagner (Villard: $25.95) A Dickens-inspired fable in which an eccentric family, one of L.A.’s filthy rich, encounters the city’s very poor.TD--TD1TR

11TDTHE VIKING FUNERAL by Stephen J. Cannell (St. Martin’s: $24.95) An LAPD detective stumbles upon a bunch of rogue cops who faked their own deaths to work on criminal enterprises. TD11TD2TR

12TDUNDER FIRE by W.E.B. Griffin (Putnam: $26.95) A Marine captain tries in vain to alert top brass of an impending invasion by the North at the outset of the Korean War. TD7TD2TR

13TDEMBERS by Sandor Marai (Alfred A. Knopf: $21) A celebrated Hungarian novelist’s tale of two old men who meet to recall their long-dead friendship and the secret at its heart.TD--TD1TR

14TDTHE OATH by John Lescroart (Dutton: $25.95) A lawyer and a cop sense that something, besides bad medicine, is to blame for several deaths at a San Francisco HMO. TD9TD3TR

15TDTHE PASSION OF ARTEMISIA by Susan Vreeland (Viking: $24.95) A female painter in 17th century Italy recalls her successes and the trials of being a creative, independent woman in a man’s age.TD--TD2TR

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1TDSELF MATTERS by Phillip C. McGraw (Simon & Schuster: $25) A self-improvement guru and “Oprah” regular teaches readers how to “create your life from the inside out.” TD2TD3TR

2TDBIAS by Bernard Goldberg (Regnery: $27.95) A veteran CBS reporter argues that the mainstream media have been seriously damaged by a liberal, closed-minded worldview. TD1TD7TR

3TDSACRED CONTRACTS by Caroline Myss (Harmony: $25) Lessons in decoding symbols, myths, intuition and coincidences to understand your purpose in life. TD--TD1TR

4TDSATISFACTION by Kim Cattrall and Mark Levinson (Warner: $24.95) A star of HBO’s “Sex and the City” and her husband draw on viewer feedback for this guide to pleasing women. TD--TD1TR

5TDWHAT WENT WRONG by Bernard Lewis (Oxford University: $23) An esteemed historian describes the Islamic Middle East’s fall from enlightenment into repression and tyranny. TD--TD1TR

6TDJOHN ADAMS by David McCullough (Simon & Schuster: $35) The story of our second president, a man Thomas Jefferson called “the colossus of independence.”TD8TD38TR

7TDJOURNEY THROUGH HEARTSONGS by Mattie J.T. Stepanek (Hyperion: $14.95) A new collection of poetry from a boy struggling with a rare form of muscular dystrophy. TD3TD2TR

8TDBEST-LOVED POEMS OF JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS Edited by Caroline Kennedy (Hyperion: $21.95) A selection of Jackie’s favorite verse and some of her own, introduced by her daughter.TD15TD15TR

9TDTHE UNIVERSE IN A NUTSHELL by Stephen Hawking (Bantam: $35) The celebrated physicist offers up a look at space, time and the origin and future of the universe. TD--TD11TR

10TDEVERY BREATH YOU TAKE by Ann Rule (The Free Press: $25) A master of thrillers and suspense tells the true-crime story of a woman pursued by her obsessed ex-husband. TD--TD1TR

11TDTHE FINAL DAYS by Barbara Olson (Regnery: $25.95) The Clintons’ last actions in the White House, from pardons to executive orders, with commentary from the late Olson. TD--TD14TR

12TDTHE DEATH OF THE WEST by Patrick J. Buchanan (Dunne Books: $25.95) How falling First World birthrates, anti-Western sentiment and other factors signal a dangerous shift in world power. TD--TD1TR

13TDWHO MOVED MY CHEESE? by Spencer Johnson (Putnam: $19.95) The co-author of “The One-Minute Manager” uses the parable of mice in a maze to discuss managing change. TD4TD98TR

14TDCRASHING THE PARTY by Ralph Nader (St. Martin’s: $24.95) On the road with the outspoken advocate during his 2000 Green Party candidacy for the U.S. presidency.TD--TD2TR

15TDHUGHES by Richard Hack (New Millennium: $28) How private memos, diaries and declassified FBI papers throw light onto the ambitions and manias of Howard Hughes. TD--TD9TR

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