Best-sellers (hardcover)

Fiction

1. “Run”: by Ann Patchett (Harper: $25.95) A widower faces complications when one of his children is shadowed by the birth mother.

2. “World Without End”: by Ken Follett (Dutton: $35) Four children of the Pillars’ families struggle in 14th century England during the Black Death.

3. “A Thousand Splendid Suns”: by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead: $25.95) Two Afghan women struggle to survive jihad, civil war and Taliban tyranny.

4. “Playing for Pizza”: by John Grisham (Doubleday: $21.95) A hack pro quarterback finds refuge on a football team in Parma, Italy.

5. “You’ve Been Warned”: by James Patterson and Howard Roughan (Little, Brown: $27.99) Trouble ensues when a nanny falls for her employer.

6. “Blonde Faith”: by Walter Mosley (Little, Brown: $25.99) Easy Rawlins, torn up at losing his longtime love, must track down two missing friends.

7. “Exit Ghost”: by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin: $26) Nathan Zuckerman finds everything changed in post-9/11 New York City, his solitude challenged.

8. “Dark of the Moon”: by John Sandford (Putnam: $26.95) A Minnesota detective is sent to the little town of Bluestem to solve a wave of murders.

9. “Tree of Smoke”: by Denis Johnson (Farrar, Straus &Giroux: $27) The saga of an undercover CIA agent, beginning with the Tet offensive in Vietnam.

10. “Midnight Rambler”: by James Swain (Ballantine: $24.95) An antisocial ex-cop is determined to put a serial killer back in prison.

Nonfiction

1. “Clapton”: by Eric Clapton (Broadway: $26) The guitarist tells all about the blues, becoming a rock legend, his bouts with addiction and his loves.

2. “I Am America (and So Can You!)”: by Stephen Colbert (Grand Central: $26.99) “The Colbert Report” star expounds on the forces destroying America.

3. “The Age of Turbulence”: by Alan Greenspan (Penguin: $35) The enigmatic former Fed chief explains and rates his economic actions, good and bad.

4. “Celebrity Detox (The Fame Game)”: by Rosie O’Donnell (Grand Central: $23.99) How this celebrity walked away from the limelight.

5. “My Grandfather’s Son”: by Clarence Thomas (HarperCollins: $26.95) The high-court justice details his youth, early career and the battle for confirmation.

6. “The Zookeeper’s Wife”: by Diane Ackerman (W.W. Norton: $24.95) How the Warsaw Zoo director and his wife tried to shelter Polish Jews during World War II.

7. “The Secret”: by Rhonda Byrne (Beyond Words: $23.95) Life’s secrets distilled from oral tradition, literature, religion and philosophy.

8. “Head and Heart: American Christianities”: by Garry Wills (Penguin: $29.95) How Christian ideas have shaped American government and society.

9. “The Nine”: by Jeffrey Toobin (Doubleday: $27.95) The New Yorker reporter and legal eagle details the inner workings and politics of the U.S. Supreme Court.

10. “The Shock Doctrine”: by Naomi Klein (Metropolitan: $28) How free trade and privatization policies have wreaked economic havoc around the world.

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