Fiction

1. “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.”

2. “The Harlequin,” by Laurell K. Hamilton (Berkley, $25.95). The vampire hunter Anita Blake is under surveillance by a troop of vampire enforcers.

3. “The Good Guy,” by Dean Koontz (Bantam, $27). An ordinary man finds himself at the center of a murder plot.

4. “For One More Day,” by Mitch Albom (Hyperion, $21.95). A troubled man gets a last chance to reconnect and restore his relationship with his dead mother.

Nonfiction

1. “The Reagan Diaries,” by Ronald Reagan. Edited by Douglas Brinkley (HarperCollins, $35). Selections from the 40th president’s daily White House diaries.

2. “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.

3. “God is Not Great,” by Christopher Hitchens (Twelve, $24.99). Religion as a malignant force in the world.

4. “Einstein,” by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster, $32). A biography based on newly released personal letters.