Fiction
1. "Playing for Pizza," by John Grisham (Doubleday, $21.95). An American third-string quarterback joins the Ital-ian National Football League's Parma Panthers.
2. "The Choice," by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central, $24.99). How the choices made by a North Carolina man and the neighbor with whom he falls in love play out in their lives; from the author of "At First Sight."
3. "Dark of the Moon," by John Sandford (Putnam, $26.95). Virgil Flowers, a character from "Invisible Prey," investigates three murders in a small Minnesota town.
4. "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.
Nonfiction
1. "My Grandfather's Son," by Clarence Thomas (Harper, $26.95). A memoir from an associate justice of the Supreme Court.
2. "The Age of Turbulence," by Alan Greenspan (Penguin Press, $35). A memoir by the longtime chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.
3. "If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans," by Ann Coulter (Crown Forum, $24.95). A collection of the columnist's provocative quotations, some from previous books and interviews, some new.
4. "The Nine," by Jeffrey Toobin (Doubleday, $27.95). A portrait of the Supreme Court since the Reagan administration focuses on its moderates.
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