Fiction

1. “Beach Road,” by James Patterson and Peter de Jonge (Little, Brown, $27.95). An East Hampton lawyer becomes involved in a highly publicized trial that pits locals against the super-rich.

2. “Dead Watch,” by John Sandford (Putnam, $26.95). A political operative investigates the murder of a former senator.

3. “The Hard Way,” by Lee Child (Delacorte, $25). When his wife is kidnapped, a man who deals in illegal soldiers turns to the former military cop Jack Reacher.

4. “Two Little Girls in Blue,” by Mary Higgins Clark (Simon & Schuster, $25.95). A small girl communicates telepathically with her kidnapped twin.

5. “Digging to America,” by Anne Tyler (Knopf, $24.95). Two families, one of them Iranian-American, become involved with each other when both adopt baby girls from Korea.

Nonfiction

1. “Marley & Me,” by John Grogan (Morrow, $21.95). A newspaper columnist and his wife learn some life lessons from their neurotic dog.

2. “Mayflower,” by Nathaniel Philbrick (Viking, $29.95). How America began, from the author of “In the Heart of the Sea.”

3. “The World is Flat,” by Thomas L. Friedman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27.50; updated and expanded edition, $30). A columnist for The New York Times analyzes 21st-century economics and foreign policy.

4. “Don’t Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings,” by Tyler Perry (Riverhead, $23.95). Musings on life from the man behind “Diary of a Mad Black Woman.”

5. “My Life In & Out of the Rough,” by John Daly with Glen Waggoner (HarperCollins, $25.95). A memoir by the bad-boy golf champion.