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The Reading List annually recognizes the best books in eight genres: adrenaline (which includes suspense, thriller, and adventure), fantasy, historical fiction, horror, mystery, romance, science fiction, and women's fiction. This year's list includes novels that will please diehard fans as well as introduce new readers to the pleasure of genre fiction.
ADRENALINE Lee Child. Gone Tomorrow. Delacorte, 2009. $27 (ISBN 978-0-385-34057-1).
Lone wolf Jack Reacher takes on terrorism and the Department of Homeland Security as he stumbles onto the tail end of an Al Qaeda sting. Crossing politics, police departments, and an alphabet soup of federal agencies, Reacher cleans house. The nonstop tension, atmosphere of menace, and Reacher's matter-of-fact narration create an immediate and believable thriller.
Readers may also enjoy The John Rain series by Barry Eisler, Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Identity, and C. J. Box's Below Zero.
FANTASY Ken Scholes. Lamentation. Tor, 2009. $7.99 (ISBN 978-0-765-32127-5).
When the city of Windwir is destroyed by an ancient weapon, tribes of the Named Lands flock to the desolation to battle an unknown foe. Elegiac in tone, this compelling high fantasy introduces readers to a complex new world.
Readers may...