BOOKS

HARDCOVER BEST-SELLERS

Fiction

1. "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest," by Stieg Larsson (Knopf, $27.95). The third volume of a trilogy about a Swedish hacker and a journalist.

2. "Fly Away Home," by Jennifer Weiner (Atria, $26.99). A senator's extramarital affair affects his wife and daughters.

3. "The 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 Louisiana Detective Dave Robicheaux's daughter.

7. "Sizzling Sixteen," by Janet Evanovich (St. Martin's, $27.99). 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 expose a dangerous conspiracy.

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 100 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.

13. "Foreign Influence," by Brad Thor (Atria, $26.99). 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.

Nonfiction

1. "The Obama Diaries," by Laura Ingraham (Threshold Editions, $25). A satirical fictional journal, with commentary, by the conservative political commentator.

2. "Sh*t 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). Bourdain looks critically at changes in the food and restaurant cultures in the 10 years since the publication of "Kitchen Confidential."

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; by the author of "The Perfect Storm."

6. "Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang," by Chelsea Handler (Grand Central, $25.99). More humorous personal essays from the comedian.

7. "Coming Back Stronger," by Drew Brees with Chris Fabry (Tyndale House, $26.99). The NFL 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.

The New York Times