Best-Sellers
Fiction
1. “Lean Mean Thirteen,” by Janet Evanovich (St. Martin’s, $27.95). The New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum becomes a suspect when her ex-husband disappears.
2. “A Thousand Splendid Suns,” by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $25.95). A friendship between two women in Afghanistan against the backdrop of 30 years of war; from the author of “The Kite Runner.”
3. “Blaze,” by Richard Bachman (Scribner, $25). An early Stephen King novel – Bachman is his alias – here revised. A criminal who was an abused child plots a kidnapping.
4. “Double Take,” by Catherine Coulter (Putnam, $25.95). Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock – FBI agents as well as husband and wife – join with a San Francisco colleague to solve a murder and find a missing woman.
Nonfiction
1. “The Diana Chronicles,” by Tina Brown (Doubleday, $27.50). The Princess of Wales’ romance with the media in the age of celebrity journalism.
2. “The Reagan Diaries,” by Ronald Reagan. Edited by Douglas Brinkley (HarperCollins, $35). Selections from the 40th president’s daily White House diaries.
3. “The Assault On Reason,” by Al Gore (Penguin Press, $25.95). How the Bush administration has degraded the political environment through secrecy, fear and the rejection of fact-based reasoning.
4. “God is not Great,” by Christopher Hitchens (Twelve, $24.99). The author rationalizes why religion is a malignant force in the world.