FICTION
1. SIZZLING SIXTEEN, by Janet Evanovich. (St. Martin's, $27.99.) Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum comes to the aid of a cousin with gambling debts.
2. THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET'S NEST, by Stieg Larsson. (Knopf, $27.95.) The third volume of a trilogy about a Swedish hacker and a journalist.
3. THE OVERTON WINDOW, by Glenn Beck. (Threshold Editions/Mercury Radio Arts, $26.) A public relations executive and the woman he loves fight to expose a conspiracy to transform America.
4. FAMILY TIES, by Danielle Steel. (Delacorte, $28.) A woman who raised her deceased sister's three children must juggle their needs, her business and the new man in her life.
5. THE LION, by Nelson DeMille. (Grand Central, $27.99.) John Corey, now a federal agent, pursues a Libyan terrorist who has returned to America bent on revenge.
6. THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett. (Amy Einhorn/Putnam, $24.95.) A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s Mississippi.
7. THE PASSAGE, by Justin Cronin. (Ballantine, $27.) More than a hundred years in the future, a small group resists the vampires who have taken over North America.
8. WHIPLASH, by Catherine Coulter. (Putnam, 26.95.) FBI agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock help investigate misdeeds at a pharmaceutical company.