Fiction

1. “The 5th Horseman,” by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown, $27.95). Det. Lindsay Boxer and the Women’s Murder Club investigate unexplained deaths at a San Francisco hospital.

2. “The Tenth Circle,” by Jodi Picoult (Atria, $26). When his teenage daughter is date-raped, a comicbook artist is overwhelmed by rage he thought he had buried with his past.

3. “The Da Vinci Code,” by Dan Brown (Doubleday, $24.95). A murder at the Louvre leads to a trail of clues found in the work of Leonardo and to the discovery of a secret society.

4. “The House,” by Danielle Steel (Delacorte, $27). A workaholic lawyer’s life changes when she buys a crumbling mansion.

5. “Cell,” by Stephen King (Scribner, $26.95). What remains of humanity fights to survive after a mysterious force scrambles cell phone users’ brains.

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. “The World is Flat,” by Thomas L. Friedman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27.50). A columnist for The New York Times analyzes 21st-century economics and foreign policy and presents an overview of globalization trends.

3. “Freakonomics,” by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (Morrow, $25.95). A maverick scholar applies economic thinking to everything from sumo wrestlers who cheat to legalized abortion and the falling crime rate.

4. “You’re Wearing That?” by Deborah Tannen (Random House, $24.95). How mothers and daughters communicate.

5. “Blink,” by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown, $25.95.) The author of “The Tipping Point” explores the importance of hunch and instinct to the workings of the mind.

– The New York Times