FICTION
1. HIT LIST, by Laurell K. Hamilton. (Berkley, $27.95.) The Mother of All Darkness stalks vampire hunter Anita Blake, who is pursuing a serial killer in the Pacific Northwest.
2. THE KINGDOM, by Clive Cussler with Grant Blackwood. (Putnam, $27.95.) Sam and Remi Fargo, a married treasure-hunting team, travel to Tibet, Nepal, Bulgaria, India and China in an adventure involving missing persons, black-market fossils and the ancient Tibetan kingdom of Mustang.
3. STATE OF WONDER, by Ann Patchett. (Harper/HarperCollins, $26.99.) In the Amazon basin, a medical researcher searches for her former mentor, a despotic scientist who is developing a miracle fertility drug.
4. DEAD RECKONING, by Charlaine Harris. (Ace, $27.95.) Telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse seeks the culprit in a firebombing.
5(x). SUMMER RENTAL, by Mary Kay Andrews. (St. Martin's, $25.99.) Three friends in their mid-30s spend a month on North Carolina's Outer Banks.
6. DREAMS OF JOY, by Lisa See. (Random House, $26.) A young woman angry at her mother and aunt over family secrets runs away to Shanghai in search of her birth father.
7(x). 10TH ANNIVERSARY, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club race to find a missing baby.
8. BURIED PREY, by John Sandford. (Putnam, $27.95.) Minneapolis Detective Lucas Davenport investigates the murders of two girls who were kidnapped in 1985 and whose bodies have just been found.