Fiction

1. “Nineteen Minutes,” by Jodi Picoult (Atria, $26.95). The aftermath of a high school shooting reveals the fault lines in a small New Hampshire town.

2. “Whitehorn Woods,” by Maeve Binchy (Knopf, $25.95). A proposed highway threatens the existence of a religious shrine in a rural Irish village.

3. “Sisters,” by Danielle Steel (Delacorte, $27). After a family tragedy, four sisters with very different lives decide to share a Manhattan brownstone.

4. “Shopaholic & Baby,” by Sophie Kinsella (Dial, $24). Becky is pregnant, and the obstetrician turns out to be her husband’s ex-girlfriend.

5. “Step on a Crack,” by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge (Little, Brown, $27.99). A detective raising 10 children alone must rescue 34 hostages.

Nonfiction

1. “In an Instant,” by Lee and Bob Woodruff (Random House, $25.95). The aftermath of the ABC co-anchor’s traumatic brain injury in Iraq in 2006.

2. “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”).

3. “The Audacity of Hope,” by Barack Obama (Crown, $25). The Illinois junior senator proposes that Americans move beyond their political divisions.

4. “A Long Way Gone,” by Ishmael Beah (Sarah Crichton/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $22). A former child soldier from Sierra Leone describes his drug-crazed killing spree and his return to humanity.

5. “Infidel,” by Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Free Press, $26). A memoir by the Somali-born advocate for Muslim immigrant women, once a member of the Dutch Parliament, who has been threatened with death.