7. Another View, Rosamunde Pilcher

182 páginas

"Emma Litton can't get on with her life until she finds out just what place she has in her father's heart. Even after she meets the handsome Robert Morrow and rediscovers her step-brother Christo, she still feels compelled to probe the truth about her past and ultimately the truth about herself."

6. Catch Me When I Fall, Nicci French

299 páginas

""Holly Krauss lives life in the fast lane. A successful young businesswoman with a stable home life, she is loved and admired by all who meet her. But that's only one side of Holly. The other sees her take regular walks on the wild side - where she makes ever more reckless mistakes. And when those mistakes start mounting up, the two sides of Holly blur together and her life quickly spirals out of control. She thinks she's being stalked, someone is demanding money from her - threats lurk around every corner and those closest to Holly are running out of patience. But is she alone responsible for what's happening? Are her fears just the paranoia of an illness - or intimations of very real danger? And if she can no longer rely on her own judgement, who can she trust to catch her when she falls?"

5. O Diabo Veste Prada, Lauren Weisberger

368 páginas

"Andrea Sachs, acabada de sair da universidade, consegue um emprego fabuloso «pelo qual um milhão de jovens eram capazes de dar a vida»: é contratada como assistente de Miranda Priestly, a editora da famosa revista Runway. No entanto, como assistente pessoal de Miranda, Andrea vê-se forçada a suportar toda uma série de abusos, realizando tarefas como encomendar-lhe o pequeno-almoço, tratar-lhe da roupa suja, fazer de motorista para a cadelinha buldogue francesa, preparar-lhe as viagens… Resumindo, Andrea tem de estar disponível vinte e quatro horas por dia para atender aos seus pedidos, e, ainda por cima, sempre com um sorriso no rosto! Será que um ano de sacrifício, ao serviço de um 'diabo' que veste Prada, não é um preço demasiado alto a pagar pelo emprego da sua vida?! Um livro hilariante, muito fashion!"

4. Vanishing Acts, Jodi Picoult

480 páginas

"The stunning new unforgettable novel from the hottest international talent to reach the UK in years Delia Hopkins has led a charmed life. Raised in rural New Hampshire by her widowed father Andrew, she now has a young daughter, a handsome fiance, and her own Search and Rescue bloodhound - which she uses to find missing persons. But as she plans her wedding, she is plagued by flashbacks of a life she can't recall. Then a policeman shows up at her door, arresting her father for the kidnap of a little girl. And Delia's past and present fracture into little pieces. Vanishing Acts is a book about the very nature and power of memory. It explores what happens when the past we have been running from catches up to us, and questions who we trust to tell us the story of our lives before we are capable of remembering it ourselves."

3. A História Secreta, Donna Tart

699 páginas

"Tartt's much bruited first novel is a huge (592 pages) rambling story that is sometimes ponderous, sometimes highly entertaining. Part psychological thriller, part chronicle of debauched, wasted youth, it suffers from a basically improbable plot, a fault Tartt often redeems through the bravado of her execution. Narrator Richard Papen comes from a lower-class family and a loveless California home to the "hermetic, overheated atmosphere" of Vermont's Hampden College. Almost too easily, he is accepted into a clique of five socially sophisticated students who study Classics with an idiosyncratic, morally fraudulent professor. Despite their demanding curriculum (they quote Greek classics to each other at every opportunity) the friends spend most of their time drinking and taking pills. Finally they reveal to Richard that they accidentally killed a man during a bacchanalian frenzy; when one of their number seems ready to spill the secret, the group--now including Richard--must kill him, too. The best parts of the book occur after the second murder, when Tartt describes the effect of the death on a small community, the behavior of the victim's family and the conspirators' emotional disintegration. Here her gifts for social satire and character analysis are shown to good advantage and her writing is powerful and evocative. On the other hand, the plot's many inconsistencies, the self-indulgent, high-flown references to classic literature and the reliance on melodrama make one wish this had been a tauter, more focused novel. In the final analysis, however, readers may enjoy the pull of a mysterious, richly detailed story told by a talented writer."

2. London Bridges, James Patterson

512 páginas

"Alex Cross is on vacation when he gets the call. A city in Nevada has been annihilated and the Russian super-criminal known as the Wolf is claiming responsibility. Major cities around the globe, including London, Paris and New York, are threatened with total destruction. The Wolf has proven he can do it – can anyone stop him in time? Surveillance films of the blast reveal the presence of another of Alex Cross’s most dangerous enemies: the Weasel. The thought of these two dark geniuses joining forces makes Alex’s blood run cold. In a matter of hours, Cross is catapulted into an international chase of astonishing danger. Arriving in London to join forces with Scotland Yard and Interpol, Alex fights his way through a torrent of false leads, impersonators and foreign agents before he gets close to the heart of the crimes. Then, in the most unforgettable finale James Patterson has ever written, Alex Cross confronts the truth of the Wolf’s identity – a revelation that even Cross himself may be unable to survive."

1. The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood

320 páginas

"In the world of the near future, who will control women's bodies? Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are only valued if their ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the days before, when she lived and made love with her husband Luke; when she played with and protected her daughter; when she had a job, money of her own, and access to knowledge. But all of that is gone now.... Funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing, The Handmaid's Tale is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and tour de force."

2006

É um bom ano para começar.