Fiction

1. “The Book of Fate,” by Brad Meltzer. (Warner, $25.99) The apparent murder of a presidential aide reveals Masonic secrets in Washington and a 200-year-old code invented by Thomas Jefferson.

2. “Rise and Shine,” by Anna Quindlen. (Random House, $24.95) The lives of two sisters, one the host of a television show and the other a social worker.

3. “Dark Celebration,” by Christine Feehan. (Berkley, $23.95) Carpathians from around the world join together to oppose their enemies’ plot to kill all Carpathian women.

4. “Judge & Jury,” by James Patterson and Andrew Gross. (Little, Brown, $27.99) An aspiring actress and an FBI agent join forces against a mobster.

5. “Richochet,” by Sandra Brown. (Simon & Schuster, $25.95) A detective is attracted to a judge’s wife who he also suspects is not telling the truth about a fatal shooting.

Nonfiction

1. “I Feel Bad About My Neck,” by Nora Ephron.(Knopf, $19.95) A witty look at aging from a novelist and screenwriter. (“When Harry Met Sally”).

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

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

4. “The Looming Tower,” by Lawrence Wright. (Knopf, $27.95) The road to 9/11 as seen through the lives of terrorists planners and the FBI counterterrorism chief.

5. “Fiasco,” by Thomas E. Ricks. (The Penguin Press, $27.95) How the Bush administration’s and the military’s failure to understand the Iraqi insurgency contributed to its growth.

– The New York Times