Best sellers

1. Where Are You Now? by Mary Higgins Clark. (Simon & Schuster, $25.95.) A woman searches for the truth about her brother, who is alive but has disappeared.

2. Unaccustomed Earth, by Jhumpa Lahiri. (Knopf, $25.) Stories about the anxiety and transformation experienced by Bengali parents and their American children.

3. Certain Girls, by Jennifer Weiner. (Atria, $26.95.) A girl rediscovers the sexy, somewhat autobiographical novel her mother wrote years earlier.

4. Belong to Me, by Marisa de los Santos. (Morrow, $24.95.) When she moves to the suburbs, a woman becomes enmeshed in complications and secrets.

5.(x) Small Favor, by Jim Butcher. (Roc, $23.95.) Book 10 of the Dresden Files series about a wizard detective in Chicago.

6. The Appeal, by John Grisham. (Doubleday, $27.95.) Political and legal intrigue ensue when a Mississippi court decides against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste.

7. Compulsion, by Jonathan Kellerman. (Ballantine, $27.) Several Los Angeles women are murdered, and psychologist/detective Alex Delaware investigates.

9. Bulls Island, by Dorothea Benton Frank. (Morrow, $24.95.) An investment banker returns to the South Carolina island home she left 20 years before.

10. A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini. (Riverhead, $25.95.) A friendship between two women in Afghanistan against the backdrop of 30 years of war.

1. Home, by Julie Andrews. (Hyperion, $26.95.) A memoir of Andrews' early years, from birth to being cast as Mary Poppins.

2. Mistaken Identity, by Don and Susie Van Ryn and Newell, Colleen and Whitney Cerak, with Mark Tabb. (Howard, $21.95.) The families of two girls whose identities were confused after a 2006 accident describe their experience.

3. Beautiful Boy, by David Sheff. (Houghton Mifflin, $24.) A father struggles with his son's meth addiction.

5. Armageddon in Retrospect, by Kurt Vonnegut. (Putnam, $24.95.) Twelve unpublished writings on war and peace by the novelist, who died in 2007.

6. Escape, by Carolyn Jessop with Laura Palmer. (Broadway, $24.95.) A former member of a fundamentalist polygamous sect describes her forced marriage to a much older man.

7. Girls Like Us, by Sheila Walker. (Atria, $27.95.) The lives and times of Carole King, Joni Mitchell and Carly Simon.

8. Losing It, by Valerie Bertinelli. (Free Press, $26.) A memoir by the actress and former wife of Eddie Van Halen focuses on depression and her effort to lose weight.

9. Standing Tall, by C. Vivian Stringer with Laura Tucker. (Crown, $24.95.) A memoir by the head coach of the Rutgers women's basketball team.

1. The Last Lecture, by Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow. (Hyperion, $21.95.) After learning he has terminal cancer, a Carnegie Mellon professor shares his thoughts on the importance of "seizing every moment."

2. The Secret, by Rhonda Byrne. (Atria/Beyond Words, $23.95.) The law of attraction as a key to getting what you want.

3. Georgia Cooking in an Oklahoma Kitchen, by Trisha Yearwood. (Clarkson Potter, $29.95.) Fried chicken, stuffed pork chops and other family recipes from the country music singer.

4. The 4-hour Workweek, by Timothy Ferriss. (Crown, $19.95.) Reconstructing your life so that it's not all about work.

5. Become a Better You, by Joel Osteen. (Free Press, $25.) Seven keys to living with joy.