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.