FICTION
1. THE GOLDFINCH, by Donna Tartt. (Little, Brown) A painting smuggled out of the Metropolitan Museum of Art after a bombing becomes a boy's prize, guilt and burden.
2. THE INVENTION OF WINGS, by Sue Monk Kidd. (Viking) The relationship between a wealthy Charleston girl, Sarah Grimké, who will grow up to become a prominent abolitionist, and the slave she is given for her 11th birthday.
3. FIRST LOVE, by James Patterson and Emily Raymond. (Little, Brown) Sixteen-year-old Axi Moore invites her best friend, whom she secretly loves, on a cross-country road trip.
4. SYCAMORE ROW, by John Grisham. (Doubleday) A sequel, about race and inheritance, to "A Time to Kill."
5. LOST LAKE, by Sarah Addison Allen. (St. Martin's) Characters gather at a lake in Southern Georgia.
6. THE FIRST PHONE CALL FROM HEAVEN, by Mitch Albom. (Harper) A small Michigan town is transformed when its residents receive phone calls said to be from heaven.
7. THE DAYS OF ANNA MADRIGAL, by Armistead Maupin. (Harper) In the ninth and final book in the Tales of the City series, the transgender former landlady of 28 Barbary Lane, age 92, attends to unfinished business.