FICTION
1. GRAY MOUNTAIN, by John Grisham. (Doubleday) A downsized Wall Street lawyer joins a legal clinic in a small Virginia town.
2. THE SLOW REGARD OF SILENT THINGS, by Patrick Rothfuss. (DAW) An exploration of the world of Auri, a character in the Kingkiller Chronicles.
3. PRINCE LESTAT, by Anne Rice. (Knopf) The Vampire Chronicles continue after a long hiatus with the reappearance of Lestat de Lioncourt.
4. HAVANA STORM, by Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler. (Putnam) Dirk Pitt becomes involved in a post-Castro power struggle in Cuba.
5. LEAVING TIME, by Jodi Picoult. (Ballantine) After searching for her mother, who has disappeared, for more than 10 years, a woman employs a psychic and a detective.
6. THE HANDSOME MAN'S DE LUXE CAFÉ, by Alexander McCall Smith. (Pantheon) The 15th book in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.
7. PEGASUS, by Danielle Steel. (Delacorte) A German aristocrat, fleeing the Nazis, settles in America with a gift of eight purebred horses from his closest friend.