Fiction
1. "Extreme Measures," by Vince Flynn (Atria, $27.95). Mitch Rapp teams up with a CIA colleague to fight a terrorist cell - and the politicians who would rein them in.
2. "The Brass Verdict," by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown, $26). Harry Bosch and Mickey Haller (the Lincoln lawyer) team up to find a killer.
3. "The Lucky One," by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central, $24.99). A Marine returning home sets out to track down the woman whose photo he found in Iraq.
4. "Bones," by Jonathan Kellerman (Ballantine, $27). The psychologist-detective Alex Delaware is called in when women's bodies keep turning up in a Los Angeles marsh.
5. "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle," by David Wroblewski (Ecco, $25.95). A mute takes refuge with three dogs in the Wisconsin woods after his father's death.
6. "Rough Weather," by Robert B. Parker (Putnam, $26.95). The Boston private eye Spenser gets involved when a gunman kidnaps the bride from her wedding on a private island.
Nonfiction
1. "Against Medical Advice," by James Patterson and Hal Friedman. (Little, Brown, $26.99.) A family's struggle to get treatment for their son's Tourette's syndrome.
2. "The Snowball," by Alice Schroeder (Bantam, $35). The life of billionaire Warren Buffett.
3. "Dewey," by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter (Grand Central, $19.99). The kitten left freezing in the returned-book slot of an Iowa public library, and his rise to fame.
4. "My Stroke of Insight," by Jill Bolte Taylor (Viking, $24.95). A brain scientist shares what she learned from her 1996 stroke.
5. "A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity," by Bill O'Reilly (Broadway, $26). The combative Fox News commentator on his upbringing and career.
6. "Hot, Flat and Crowded," by Thomas L. Friedman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27.95). How a green revolution can renew America, by the New York Times columnist.
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