books

FICTION

1. A MEMORY OF LIGHT, by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson. (Tor/Tom Doherty, $34.99.) The 14th and final novel in the Wheel of Time fantasy series.

2. GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn. (Crown, $25.) A woman disappears on her fifth anniversary; is her husband a killer?

3. TENTH OF DECEMBER, by George Saunders. (Random House, $26.) Stories that take on the big questions.

4. KINSEY AND ME, by Sue Grafton. (Marian Wood/Putnam, $27.95.) Stories about Grafton’s character Kinsey Millhone as well as explorations of Grafton’s own past.

5. COLLATERAL DAMAGE, by Stuart Woods. (Putnam, $26.95.) Back in New York, the lawyer Stone Barrington joins his former partner Holly Barker in pursuing a dangerous case.

6. THE HUSBAND LIST, by Janet Evanovich and Dorien Kelly. (St. Martin’s, $27.99.) In New York City in 1894, a wealthy young woman yearns for adventure and the love of an Irish-American with new money, rather than the titled Britons to whom her mother hopes to marry her off.

7. THE TWELVE TRIBES OF HATTIE, by Ayana Mathis. (Knopf, $24.95.) Fifty-some years in the life of an African-American family whose matriarch arrives in Philadelphia in 1923.

8(x). THE BLOOD GOSPEL, by James Rollins and Rebecca Cantrell. (Morrow/HarperCollins, $27.99.) A hunt for the truth about a shadowy ancient order and a book supposed to have been written in Christ’s own hand and in his blood; the first book in the Order of the Sanguines series.

9. THE RACKETEER, by John Grisham. (Doubleday, $28.95.) An imprisoned ex-lawyer schemes to exchange information about a murdered federal judge for his freedom.

10. DREAM EYES, by Jayne Ann Krentz. (Putnam, $26.95.) A psychic counselor, returning to a small Oregon town after her mentor’s suspicious death, is drawn to a psychic investigator with disturbing power; a Dark Legacy novel.

NON-FICTION

1. KILLING KENNEDY, by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard. ( Holt, $28.) The host of “The O’Reilly Factor” recounts the events surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

2. MY SHARE OF THE TASK, by Stanley McChrystal. (Portfolio/Penguin, $29.95.) The former commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, now retired, reviews his career.

3. NO EASY DAY, by Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer. (Dutton, $26.95.) An account by a former member of the Navy SEALs, written pseudonymously, of the mission that killed bin Laden.

4(x). THOMAS JEFFERSON, by Jon Meacham. (Random House, $35.) The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer celebrates Jefferson’s skills as a practical politician.

5. THE WORLD UNTIL YESTERDAY, by Jared Diamond. (Viking, $36.) The author of “Guns, Germs, and Steel” examines what we can learn from traditional societies.