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.

2. “Play Dirty,” by Sandra Brown (Simon & Schuster, $26.95). A disgraced N.F.L. quarterback struggles to remake his life in the face of a strange assignment from an eccentric millionaire.

3. “Away,” by Amy Bloom (Random House, $23.95). An immigrant who escaped a Russian pogrom crosses America, toward home, after learning her daughter may still be alive.

4. “The Quickie,” by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge (Little, Brown, $27.99). A police officer’s attempt to get back at her husband, whom she suspects of cheating on her, goes dangerously awry.

Nonfiction

1.”Quiet Strength,” by Tony Dungy with Nathan Whitaker (Tyndale, $26.99). A memoir by the first black coach to win a Super Bowl.

2. “Lone Survivor,” by Marcus Luttrell with Patrick Robinson (Little, Brown, $24.99). The only survivor of a Navy Seal operation in northern Afghanistan describes the battle.

3. “You Can Run But You Can’t Hide,” by Duane Chapman with Laura Morton (Hyperion, $25.95). The star of A&E’s “Dog the Bounty Hunter” recalls his past of abuse and addiction.

4. “It’s All About Him,” by Denise Jackson with Ellen Vaughn (Thomas Nelson, $24.99). The wife of the country music star Alan Jackson describes how religious faith restored her marriage.