2 FLY AWAY HOME, by Jennifer Weiner. (Atria, $26.99.) A senator’s extramarital affair affects his wife and daughters.
3THE SEARCH, by Nora Roberts. (Putnam, $26.95.) The only survivor of a serial killer has found peace in the Pacific Northwest, but her life is shaken by the appearance of a new man and a copycat murderer.
4 THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett. (Amy Einhorn/Putnam, $24.95.) A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s Mississippi.
5 PRIVATE, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) The head of an investigation company pursues the murderer of his best friend's wife.
6 THE GLASS RAINBOW, by James Lee Burke. (Simon & Schuster, $25.99.) A man with ties to an evil ex-convict and best-selling author is dating the Louisiana detective Dave Robicheaux’s daughter.
7 SIZZLING SIXTEEN, by Janet Evanovich. (St.Martin's, $27.99.) The bounty hunter Stephanie Plum comes to the aid of a cousin with gambling debts.
8 FAITHFUL PLACE, by Tana French. (Viking, $25.95.) Twenty-two years after a Dublin woman stood up her intended groom, her abandoned suitcase is discovered
9 THE OVERTON WINDOW, by Glenn Beck. (Threshold Editions/Mercury Radio Arts, $26.) A public relations executive and the woman he loves fight to expose a conspiracy to transform America.
10 LIVE TO TELL, by Lisa Gardner. (Bantam, $26.) The investigation of a Boston family murder leads Detective D.?D. Warren to a pediatric psychiatric ward.
11 THE PASSAGE, by Justin Cronin. (Ballantine, $27.) More than a hundred years in the future, a small group resists the vampires who have taken over North America.
12 THE LION, by Nelson DeMille. (Grand Central, $27.99.) John Corey, now a federal agent, pursues a Libyan terrorist who has returned to America bent on revenge.
13 FOREIGN INFLUENCE, by Brad Thor. (Atria, $26.99.) The covert operative Scott Harvath joins a new spy agency and investigates a bombing in Rome that killed American students.
14 ICE COLD, by Tess Gerritsen. (Ballantine, $26.) A group of friends are murdered when they take refuge in a remote abandoned village in Wyoming.
15 THE ISLAND, by Elin Hilderbrand. (Reagan Arthur/Little, Brown, $25.99.) A woman, her daughters and her sister take refuge from life's complications on a tiny island near Nantucket, but their time there is far from quiet.
2 ---- MY DAD SAYS, by Justin Halpern. (It Books/HarperCollins, $15.99.) A coming-of-age memoir organized around the musings, purveyed on Twitter, of the author's father.
3 MEDIUM RAW, by Anthony Bourdain. (Ecco/HarperCollins, $26.99.) The author of "Kitchen Confidential" looks critically both at the changes in the food and restaurant culture in the past 10 years and at the people responsible for them.
4 THE BIG SHORT, by Michael Lewis. (Norton, $27.95.) The people who saw the real estate crash coming and made billions from their foresight.
5 WAR by Sebastian Junger. (Twelve, $26.99.) The intense lives of American soldiers in a lethal corner of Afghanistan.
6 CHELSEA CHELSEA BANG BANG, by Chelsea Handler. (Grand Central, $25.99.) More humorous personal essays from the comedian.
7 COMING BACK STRONGER (Book on CD), by Drew Brees with Chris Fabry. (Tyndale House, $26.99.) The N.F.L. quarterback recovered from an injury to play for the New Orleans Saints.
8 EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON, by S. C. Gwynne. (Scribner, $27.50.) The story of Quanah Parker, the last and greatest chief of the Comanches.
9 SLIDING INTO HOME, by Kendra Wilkinson. (Gallery, $26.) The life of the reality TV star and former Playboy cover model.
10 IN A HEARTBEAT, by Leigh Anne Tuohy and Sean Tuohy with Sally Jenkins. (Holt, $24.) The couple featured in “The Blind Side” tell their story and promote the practice of “cheerful giving.”
11 OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) Why some people succeed, from the author of "Blink."
12 HOME TEAM, by Sean Payton and Ellis Henican. (NAL, $24.95.) The head coach of the New Orleans Saints describes the team's Super Bowl victory, which raised the city's spirits four years after Hurricane Katrina.
13 STEINBRENNER, by Bill Madden. (Harper/HarperCollins, $26.99.) A biography of the New York Yankees owner, who died last month.
14 SPOKEN FROM THE HEART, by Laura Bush. (Scribner, $30.) A memoir from the former first lady.
15 FIFTH AVENUE, 5 A.M., by Sam Wasson. (Harper/HarperCollins, $19.99.) The making of the movie "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and its cultural influence.