National bestsellers

1. THE JUNGLE, by Clive Cussler and Jack Du Brul. (Putnam, $27.95.) Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon undertake rescue operations from Afghanistan to Myanmar.

2. SING YOU HOME, by Jodi Picoult. (Atria, $28.) Picoult takes on the issue of gay rights in this novel about a music therapist who desperately wants a child; CD of songs included.

3. THE WISE MAN'S FEAR, by Patrick Rothfuss. (DAW, $29.95.) Day Two of the Kingkiller Chronicles, a sequel to "The Name of the Wind."

4. THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET'S NEST, by Stieg Larsson. (Knopf, $27.95.) The third volume of the Millennium trilogy, about a Swedish hacker and a journalist.

5. LOVE YOU MORE, by Lisa Gardner. (Bantam, $26.) Detective D.D. Warren must solve the case of a dead husband, a battered wife and a missing child.

6. A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES, by Deborah Harkness. (Viking, $28.95.) The recovery of a lost ancient manuscript in a library at Oxford sets a fantastical underworld stirring.

7. MINDING FRANKIE, by Maeve Binchy. (Knopf, $26.95.) A motherless girl is cared for by a Dublin community.

9(x). RIVER MARKED, by Patricia Briggs. (Ace, $26.95.) The shapeshifter Mercy Thompson and her mate, the Alpha werewolf Adam, confront evil lurking in the Columbia River.

10. SILENT MERCY, by Linda Fairstein. (Dutton, $26.95.) Alexandra Cooper, a Manhattan assistant district attorney, is called when a woman's decapitated body is found burning on the steps of a Harlem church.

1. THE SOCIAL ANIMAL, by David Brooks. (Random House, $27.) Brooks creates two imaginary people, Harold and Erica, to illustrate his understanding of the human mind, the wellsprings of action and the causes of success and failure.

2. UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand. (Random House, $27.) An Olympic runner's story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II.

3. MOONWALKING WITH EINSTEIN, by Joshua Foer. (Penguin Press, $26.95.) After covering a mnemonics championship as a freelance journalist, Foer hired a tutor and tried his hand at competing himself.

5. A SIMPLE GOVERNMENT, by Mike Huckabee. (Sentinel, $26.95.) The ex-governor of Arkansas proposes 12 things he says Americans need from the federal government. (b)

6(x). DECISION POINTS, by George W. Bush. (Crown, $35.) The former president's memoir discusses his Christianity, the end of his drinking and his decisions on 9/11, Iraq and Katrina.

7. CLEOPATRA, by Stacy Schiff. (Little, Brown, $29.99.) The Macedonian-Egyptian queen was much more than the lover of Caesar and Mark Antony. This biography, by the author of "Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)," portrays her in all her ambition, audacity and formidable intelligence.

8. THE INFORMATION, by James Gleick. (Pantheon, $29.95.) From the invention of ancient scripts and alphabets and African talking drums to today's computers and the Internet, Gleick tells the story of information technologies that changed the nature of human consciousness.

9. BLOOD, BONES, AND BUTTER, by Gabrielle Hamilton. (Random House, $26.) A memoir by the chef and owner of the Manhattan restaurant Prune.

1. THE MONEY CLASS, by Suze Orman. (Spiegel & Grau, $26.) The noted personal financial adviser offers a reconsideration of the American dream.

2. THE THANK YOU ECONOMY, by Gary Vaynerchuk. (Harper Business/HarperCollins, $24.99.) Tips on using social media tools to connect to customers.(b)

3. TELL TO WIN, by Peter Guber. (Crown Business, $26.) The role of storytelling in business success.

4. ENCHANTMENT, by Guy Kawasaki. (Portfolio/Penguin, $26.95.) A former Apple employee explains how to gain professionally and personally by bringing about change in others. (b)

5. WIN, by Frank I. Luntz. (Hyperion, $25.99.) Using communication skills to improve a business.