FICTION

June 9, 2009 at 7:21PM

FICTION

1. GONE TOMORROW, by Lee Child. (Delacorte, $27.) Jack Reacher discovers a conspiracy dating back to the Soviet war in Afghanistan.

2. WICKED PREY, by John Sandford. (Putnam, $27.95.) Minneapolis detective Lucas Davenport deals with mayhem occasioned by the Republican National Convention.

3. THE 8TH CONFESSION, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club investigate a pair of killings.

4. DEAD AND GONE, by Charlaine Harris. (Ace, $25.95.) Sookie Stackhouse searches for the killer of a werepanther.

5. CEMETERY DANCE, by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. (Grand Central, $26.99.) FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast investigates the murder of a reporter.

6. FIRST FAMILY, by David Baldacci. (Grand Central, $27.99.) Former Secret Service agents, now PIs, search for a child abducted from a party at Camp David.

7. THE HOST, by Stephenie Meyer. (Little, Brown, $25.99.) Aliens have taken control of the minds and bodies of most humans, but one woman won't surrender.

8. PYGMY, by Chuck Palahniuk. (Doubleday, $24.95.) Terrorists from a totalitarian country enter the Midwest disguised as exchange students in this satire.

9. THE SIGN, by Raymond Khoury. (Dutton, $26.95.) Is an apparition that has been seen around the world a sign from God, or is it connected to a mysterious high-tech project?

10 (x). SEDUCING AN ANGEL, by Mary Balogh. (Delacorte, $23.) In Regency England, Stephen Huxtable falls for a would-be courtesan who has been accused of murder.

NONFICTION

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

2. OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) Why some people succeed -- it has to do with luck and opportunity -- from the author of "Blink."

3. RESILIENCE, by Elizabeth Edwards. (Broadway, $22.95.) Dealing with life's challenges, including cancer and her husband's infidelity.

4. THE GIRLS FROM AMES, by Jeffrey Zaslow. (Gotham, $26.) An enduring friendship among a group of Iowa women.

5. ALWAYS LOOKING UP, by Michael J. Fox. (Hyperion, $25.99.) Fox's past 10 years; his struggles with Parkinson's disease and his work as an activist through his foundation.

6. MY REMARKABLE JOURNEY, by Larry King with Cal Fussman. (Weinstein, $27.95.) From Depression-era Brooklyn to "Larry King Live."

7. LOSING MUM AND PUP, by Christopher Buckley. (Twelve, $24.99.) A memoir of the lives and deaths of the author's parents, Patricia and William F. Buckley.

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

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

10 (x). UNFINISHED BUSINESS, by James Van Praagh. (HarperOne, $24.99.) Learning about living from the spirit world.

ADVICE, HOW-TO AND MISCELLANEOUS

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. 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 NBC's "The Biggest Loser."

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

4. THE G-FREE DIET, by Elisabeth Hasselbeck. (Center Street, $24.99.) Advice for living without gluten, from a television host who suffers from celiac disease.

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

An (x) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A (b) indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending May 23 at almost 4,000 bookstores.

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