Track-It Books

"What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures" by Malcolm Gladwell. Little, Brown & Co. 410 pages. (Also on 10 CDs read by the author. Hachette Audio.) Read more

Key: F-Fiction; NF-Nonfiction; H-Hardcover; P-Paperback

1. "Under the Dome" by Stephen King (Scribner) (F-H) Read more

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. "Under the Dome" by Stephen King (Scribner)

2. "The Lost Symbol" by Dan Brown (Doubleday) Read more

PORTLAND, Maine — Maine author Phillip Hoose said winning a National Book Award for his chronicle of a young civil rights pioneer was all the more moving because she took the stage with him when he accepted the honor. Read more

"The Untamed Bride" by Stephanie Laurens; Avon Books (2009), 356 pages, $7.99 (paperback)

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NEW YORK — The 60th annual National Book Awards was a night to celebrate literature and to wonder about its future. Read more

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — College students ditched class, employees skipped work and some huddled in the cold overnight just to make sure they get an orange wristband Wednesday that would let them meet Sarah Palin. Read more

"Hollywood Moon" by Joseph Wambaugh; Little, Brown (352 pages, $26.99)

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Veteran author Joseph Wambaugh weaves together several seemingly unrelated vignettes for a darkly comic, gritty look at street cops and identity thieves in Los Angeles. Read more

"Stitches: A Memoir" by David Small; Norton (329 pages, $24.95)

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David Small grew up crushingly lonely, rendered mute from cancer surgery and largely ignored by his distant father, his even more distant mother and his cruel, possibly insane, grandmother. Read more

SEATTLE -- This is a red-letter week for friends and enemies of Sarah Palin, Republican former vice-presidential candidate and newly minted author. With the help of a ghostwriter, Palin published a memoir, "Going Rogue: An American Life," on... Read more