2 THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett. (Amy Einhorn/Putnam, $24.95.) A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s Mississippi.
3 BLACK MAGIC SANCTION, by Kim Harrison. (Eos/HarperCollins, $25.99.) A witch who is also a bounty hunter is shunned by her kind; the eighth Rachel Morgan book.
4 SPLIT IMAGE, by Robert B. Parker. (Putnam, $25.95.) Jesse Stone, the police chief of Paradise, Mass., copes with divorce, the bottle and the murder of a mob soldier.
5 BIG GIRL, by Danielle Steel. (Delacorte, $28.) A woman with weight issues learns to accept herself.
6 WORST CASE, by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) A New York detective raising 10 children alone investigates a string of kidnappings and killings of teenagers by a villain with unusual motives.
7 THE MAN FROM BEIJING, by Henning Mankell. (Knopf, $25.95.) A massacre in a tiny Swedish village has roots in the past and on other continents.
8 THE LOST SYMBOL, by Dan Brown. (Doubleday, $29.95.) Robert Langdon among the Masons
9 WINTER GARDEN, by Kristin Hannah. (St. Martin's, $26.99.) After their father's death, two sisters must cooperate to run his apple orchard and care for their difficult mother.
10 THE POSTMISTRESS, by Sarah Blake. (Amy Einhorn/Putnam, $25.95.) Ordinary life in a Massachusetts small town and an American radio reporter in England in the 1940s.
11 APPLE TURNOVER MURDER, by Joanne Fluke. (Kensington, $24.) Hannah Swensen searches for the killer of an amorous professor; recipes included.
12 POOR LITTLE BITCH GIRL, by Jackie Collins. (St. Martin's, $26.99.) Hollywood murder, three beautiful 20-something high school friends, a hot New York club owner.
13 THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE, by Stieg Larsson. (Knopf, $25.95.) A Swedish hacker becomes a murder suspect.
14 FLIRT, by Laurell K. Hamilton. (Berkley, $23.95.) Anita Blake, vampire hunter, and the males in her life; the 18th book in the series.
10 HORNS, by Joe Hill. (Morrow/HarperCollins, $25.99.) After the rape and murder of his girlfriend, a distraught young man discovers that he has grown horns.
2 THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS, by Rebecca Skloot. (Crown, $26.) Race, poverty and science intertwine in the story of the woman whose cancer cells were cultured without her permission in 1951 and have supported a mountain of research undertaken since then.
3I AM OZZY, by Ozzy Osbourne with Chris Ayres. (Grand Central, $26.99.) Recollections of heavy metal's "Prince of Darkness."
4 THE POLITICIAN, by Andrew Young. (Thomas Dunne/St. Martin’s, $24.99.) A tell-all by John Edwards’s closest aide.
5 HAVE A LITTLE FAITH, by Mitch Albom. (Hyperion, $23.99.) A suburban rabbi and a Detroit pastor teach lessons about the comfort of belief.
6 THE CHECKLIST MANIFESTO, by Atul Gawande. (Metropolitan/Holt, $24.50.) Following checklists makes surgery safer and other activities more efficient, a doctor argues.
7 OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) Why some people succeed — it has to do with luck and opportunity as well as talent — from the author of "Blink."
8 WILLIE MAYS, by James S. Hirsch. (Scribner, $30.) The life and career of a baseball legend.
9 COMMITTED, by Elizabeth Gilbert. (Viking, $26.95.) The author of "Eat, Pray, Love" wrestles with, and overcomes, her ambivalence about marriage.
10 STONES INTO SCHOOLS, by Greg Mortenson. (Viking, $26.95.) Building schools, many of them for girls, in northeast Afghanistan; takes up where "Three Cups of Tea" left off.
11 MAKING ROUNDS WITH OSCAR, by David Dosa. (Hyperion, $23.99.) A nursing-home cat who comforts patients when death is near.
12 ON THE BRINK, by Henry M. Paulson Jr.. (Grand Central, $28.99.) The Treasury secretary during the autumn of 2008 describes the decisions that were made during the financial meltdown.
13 DRIVE, by Daniel H. Pink. (Riverhead, $26.95.) What really motivates people is the quest for autonomy, mastery and purpose, not external rewards.
14 MAKING TOAST, by Roger Rosenblatt. (Ecco/HarperCollins, $21.99.) The writer and his wife help to raise their grandchildren after the sudden death of their 38-year-old daughter.
15 STAYING TRUE, by Jenny Sanford. (Ballantine, $25.) The ups and downs of life with South Carolina’s Gov. Mark Sanford, by his estranged wife.