Fiction

1. “You’ve Been Warned,” by James Patterson and Howard Roughan (Little, Brown, $27.99). An aspiring photographer working as a nanny and in love with the children’s father has terrible visions.

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.

3. “Pontoon,” by Garrison Keillor (Viking, $25.95). After the death of a good Lutheran lady in Lake Wobegon, her daughter learns about her secret life.

4. “The Wheel of Darkness,” by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (Warner, $25.99). A Tibetan abbot asks the FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast to help recover a stolen relic with evil powers.

5. “Bones to Ashes,” by Kathy Reichs (Scribner, $25.95). The forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan is asked to examine the skeleton of a young girl in Canada, where, many years ago, her best friend disappeared.