Fiction

1. “Duma Key,” by Stephen King (Scribner, $28). A Minnesota contractor moves to Florida to recover from an injury and begins to create paintings with mysterious power.

2. “Plum Lucky,” by Janet Evanovich (St. Martinos, $17.95). Stephanie’s mother finds a bag of cash and goes gambling in Atlantic City, pursued by the money’s owner.

3. “People of the Book,” by Geraldine Brooks (Viking, $25.95). A rare-book expert unlocks the secrets of a medieval manuscript.

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.

5. “World Without End,” by Ken Follett (Dutton, $35). Love and intrigue in Kingsbridge, the medieval English cathedral town at the center of Follett’s “Pillars of the Earth.”

6. “Beverly Hills Dead,” by Stuart Woods (Putnam, $25.95). Murder and political intrigue during the Hollywood Red scare of the 1940s.

Nonfiction

1. “In Defense of Food,” by Michael Pollan (Penguin Press, $21.95). A manifesto urges us to “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”

2. “An Inconvenient Book,” by Glenn Beck and Kevin Balfe (Threshold Editions, $26). The conservative TV and talk-radio host offers his solutions to problems including global warming, poverty and political correctness.

3. “Tom Cruise,” by Andrew Morton (St. Martin’s, $25.95). An unauthorized biography of the movie star and Scientology spokesman.

4. “Real Change,” by Newt Gingrich with Vince Haley and Rick Tyler (Regnery, $27.95). How to build a better America, from the former speaker of the House.

5. “Free Lunch,” by David Cay Johnston (Portfolio, $24.95). How lobbyists and lawyers have wangled government subsidies for the wealthy.

6. “Liberal Fascism,” by Jonah Goldberg (Doubleday, $27.95). This “alternative history of American liberalism : reveals its roots in, and commonalities with, classical fascism.”