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Hardcover Nonfiction
1. Superfreakonomics
By Steven Levitt. William Morrow.
2. The Book of Basketball
By Bill Simmons. ESPN.
3. What the Dog Saw
By Malcolm Gladwell. Little, Brown.
4. When the Game Was Ours
By Larry Bird and Earvin Johnson. Houghton Mifflin.
5. True Compass
By Edward M. Kennedy. Twelve.
Hardcover Fiction
1. The Gathering Storm
By Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson. Tor Books.
2. Last Night in Twisted River
By John Irving. Random House.
3. The Help
By Kathryn Stockett. Putnam.
4. The Lost Symbol
By Dan Brown. Doubleday.
5. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
By Jeff Kinney. Amulet.
Review
David Liss delivers a headlong romp through 1720s London
"The Devil's Company," a historical thriller set in London in 1722, is an absorbing tale of greed, sabotage, and corruption.
TODAY At House of Blues, vinyl samples of 20th-century Jewish music in the United States (By June Wulff, Globe Staff)
Jonathan Safran Foer reads from ‘Eating Animals’ Wednesday in Brookline (By Hannah E. Martin, Globe Correspondent)
Google gets more time on books deal (By Christopher Stern and Susan Decker, Bloomberg News)
BOOK REVIEW ‘The Wild Marsh’ offers a sense of the seasons in Montana isolation (By Chuck Leddy, Boston Globe)
Short Takes, Nov. 8 (By Barbara Fisher, Globe Correspondent)
Bookings (By Judith Maas, Boston Globe)
Hingham hosts Kennedy boook talk Nov. 8 (Boston Globe)
Self-destruction, sobriety, and the light of Catholicism (By Rebecca Steinitz, Globe Correspondent)
New history of D-Day and the battle for France does well with the combat, but not the strategies (By Nigel Hamilton, Globe Correspondent)
America’s game? Try poker (By Glenn C. Altschuler, Globe Correspondent)
Q&A Q&A: Author Allison Hoover Bartlett on the curious psyche of a rare-book thief (By Matthew Battles, Boston Globe)
Book Review In ‘Crude World,’ a fuel for corruption, conflict, and addiction (By Carlo Wolff, Boston Globe)
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