Fiction

This Week		Last Week	Weeks on List
1	PRIVATE, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) The head of an investigation company pursues the murderer of his best friend’s wife.		1
2	SIZZLING SIXTEEN, by Janet Evanovich. (St.Martin’s, $27.99.) The bounty hunter Stephanie Plum comes to the aid of a cousin with gambling debts.	1	2
3	THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST, by Stieg Larsson. (Knopf, $27.95.) The third volume of a trilogy about a Swedish hacker and a journalist. Excerpt	2	6
4	THE OVERTON WINDOW, by Glenn Beck. (Threshold Editions/Mercury Radio Arts, $26.) A public relations executive and the woman he loves expose a dangerous conspiracy.	3	3
5	THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett. (Amy Einhorn/Putnam, $24.95.) A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s ­Mississippi.	6	66
6	FOREIGN INFLUENCE, by Brad Thor. (Atria, $26.99.) The covert operative Scott Harvath joins a new spy agency and investigates a bombing in Rome that killed American students.		1
7	THE PASSAGE, by Justin Cronin. (Ballantine, $27.) More than a hundred years in the future, a small group resists the vampires who have taken over North America. Excerpt	7	4
8	THE LION, by Nelson DeMille. (Grand Central, $27.99.) John Corey, now a federal agent, pursues a Libyan terrorist.	5	4
9	FAMILY TIES, by Danielle Steel. (Delacorte, $28.) A woman who raised her deceased sister’s three children must juggle their needs, her business and the new man in her life.	4	2
10	ICE COLD, by Tess Gerritsen. (Ballantine, $26.) A group of friends are murdered when they take refuge in a remote abandoned village in Wyoming.		1
11	IN THE NAME OF HONOR, by Richard North Patterson. (Holt, $26.) An Iraq veteran shoots his commanding officer, who was married to a family friend.		1
12	WHIPLASH, by Catherine Coulter. (Putnam, 26.95.) The F.B.I. agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock help investigate misdeeds at a pharmaceutical company.	8	3
13	DEAD IN THE FAMILY, by Charlaine Harris. (Ace, $25.95.) Sookie Stackhouse is exhausted in the aftermath of a Fae war.	10	9
14	THE THOUSAND AUTUMNS OF JACOB DE ZOET, by David Mitchell. (Random House, $26.) Forbidden love in Edo-era Japan. Excerpt		1
15	THE PARTICULAR SADNESS OF LEMON CAKE, by Aimee Bender. (Doubleday, $25.95.) A girl has insights into other people’s secret emotions.		1