Best sellers

1. BEST FRIENDS FOREVER, by Jennifer Weiner. (Atria, $26.99.) Childhood friends, estranged in high school, reunite years later when the popular one needs the mousy one's help.

2. SWIMSUIT, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) A former cop, now a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, investigates the disappearance of a supermodel.

3. BLACK HILLS, by Nora Roberts. (Putnam, $26.95.) South Dakota wildlife biologist and an ex-cop, childhood sweethearts, reunite to pursue a serial killer.

4. FINGER LICKIN' FIFTEEN, by Janet Evanovich. (St. Martin's, $27.95.) Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum tracks a celebrity chef's killer.

5. THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett. (Amy Einhorn/Putnam, $24.95.) A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s Mississippi.

6. RAIN GODS, by James Lee Burke. (Simon & Schuster, $25.99.) A Texas sheriff investigates a mass murder of illegal aliens and tries to find the young Iraq war veteran who may have been involved before the FBI can.

7 (x). THE DOOMSDAY KEY, by James Rollins. (Morrow/HarperCollins, $27.99.) Sigma Force operatives attempt to solve an ancient mystery that has deadly consequences.

9. THE APOSTLE, by Brad Thor. (Atria, $26.99.) Scot Harvath, a Homeland Security superagent, is asked to free an al-Qaida mastermind from an Afghan prison as part of a ransom deal.

10. GUARDIAN OF LIES, by Steve Martini. (Morrow/HarperCollins, $26.99.) Lawyer Paul Madriani unravels a mystery involving gold coins, the CIA and a weapon forgotten since the Cuban missile crisis.

1. UNMASKED, by Ian Halperin. (Simon Spotlight Entertainment, $25.) Michael Jackson's final years.

2. OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) Why some people succeed, from the author of "Blink."

3. LIBERTY AND TYRANNY, by Mark R. Levin. (Threshold Editions, $25.) A conservative manifesto from a talk-show host and president of Landmark Legal Foundation.

5. THE ACCIDENTAL BILLIONAIRES, by Ben Mezrich. (Doubleday, $25.) How two Harvard undergraduates created Facebook.

6. HORSE SOLDIERS, by Doug Stanton. (Scribner, $28.) A small group of Special Forces soldiers fought the Taliban on horseback shortly after 9/11.

7. THE END OF OVEREATING, by David A. Kessler. (Rodale, $25.95.) How eating sugar, fat and salt affects our minds and bodies and encourages overindulgence.

8. BOBBY AND JACKIE, by C. David Heymann. (Atria, $26.) The connection between Bobby and Jackie Kennedy.

9 (x). THE BECKHAM EXPERIMENT, by Grant Wahl. (Crown, $24.99.) David Beckham's attempt to transform soccer into a popular sport in America.

1. ACT LIKE A LADY, THINK LIKE A MAN, by Steve Harvey with Denene Millner. (Amistad/HarperCollins, $23.99.) Relationship tips from the comedian and host of "The Steve Harvey Morning Show."

2. THE LAST LECTURE, by Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow. (Hyperion, $21.95.) Thoughts on "seizing every moment" from Pausch, a Carnegie-Mellon professor who died of pancreatic cancer at age 47.

3. MASTER YOUR METABOLISM, by Jillian Michaels with Mariska van Aalst. (Crown, $26.) A plan for removing toxins and rebalancing hormones to lose weight, by a trainer and coach from "The Biggest Loser" on NBC.

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

5. EXCUSES BEGONE! by Wayne W. Dyer. (Hay House, $24.95.) How to throw out old excuses and embrace new ways of thinking to achieve happiness. (b)