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Times reveals Top 50 paperbacks
28.09.09 | Katie Allen
Man Booker-winner Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger, The Return by Victoria Hislop and Ben Goldacre's Bad Science are among the titles revealed on Saturday (26th September) to be on the Times' Top 50 paperbacks of 2009.
The Times WHSmith Paperback of the Year will be announced on 12th December. The newspaper's judges - Erica Wagner, author Alexander McCall Smith and W H Smith book buyer Sandra Bradley - have reduced the titles to a shortlist of 12 and already chosen the winner.
Number 12 was revealed this week to be Ian Rankin's Doors Open, which will be available for £2.99 from next week with a purchase of the Times or Sunday Times. The remaining 11 titles will be announced on a weekly basis. The longlist also features on a 'buy one get one' free offer at WHSmith.
THE LONGLIST 50:
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Dreams from my Father by Barack Obama
Night Train to Lisbon by Pascal Mercier
Churchill's Wizards by Nicholas Rankin
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
Bones of the Hills by Conn Iggulden
The Palace of Strange Girls by Sallie Day
Mystery Man by Colin Bateman
The Girl Next Door by Elizabeth Noble
The Other Half Lives by Sophie Hannah
The Return by Victoria Hislop
The Broken Window by Jeffery Deaver
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
The Reapers by John Connolly
A Most Wanted Man by John le Carré
The Unicorn Road by Martin Davies
Remember Me by Melvyn Bragg
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
Testimony by Anita Shreve
The Bolter by Frances Osborne
In the Dark by Mark Billingham
The Behaviour of Moths by Poppy Adams
The Host by Stephenie Meyer
Full Hearts and Empty Bellies by Winifred Foley
The Paper Moon by Andrea Camilleri
Revelation by C J Sansom
The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent
The Way Things Look to Me by Roopa Farooki
An Equal Stillness by Francesca Kay
Hold Tight by Harlan Coben
Doors Open by Ian Rankin
Too Close to Home by Linwood Barclay
The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly
A Simple Act of Violence by R J Ellory
A Secret Alchemy by Emma Darwin
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
Devil May Care by Sebastian Faulks
The Believers by Zoë Heller
The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
Fractured by Karin Slaughter
Becoming Queen by Kate Williams
Dambusters by Max Arthur
The Murder Exchange by Simon Kernick
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
When Will There be Good News? by Kate Atkinson
Keeping the Dead by Tess Gerritsen
