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[1] THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, by Stieg Larsson. (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, $14.95.) A hacker and a journalist investigate the disappearance of a Swedish heiress; the first volume in the Millennium trilogy.
[2] THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett. (Berkley, $16.) Three women — a white socialite and two black maids — work on a tell-all book about black domestic servants in 1960s Mississippi.
[3] EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE, by Jonathan Safran Foer. (Mariner/Houghton Mifflin, $14.95.) A precocious boy goes on a scavenger hunt through New York’s five boroughs in search of the lock that fits a key belonging to his father, who died on Sept.
[4] THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE, by Stieg Larsson. (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, $15.95.) In the second volume of the Millennium trilogy, the Swedish hacker Lisbeth Salander becomes a murder suspect.
[5] THE TIGER'S WIFE, by Téa Obreht. (Random House, $15.) Fable and allegory illustrate the complexities of Balkan history, as a young doctor unravels the mysterious circumstances surrounding her beloved grandfather’s death
[6] A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES, by Deborah Harkness. (Penguin, $16.) The recovery of a lost ancient manuscript in a library at Oxford sets a fantastical underworld stirring.
[7] THE NEXT ALWAYS, by Nora Roberts. (Berkley, $16.) A historic hotel in Boonsboro, Md., is getting a face-lift from the Montgomery brothers and their eccentric mother.
[8] TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY, by John le Carre. (Penguin, $16.) George Smiley sets a trap to catch a Soviet mole who may have penetrated the highest level of British Intelligence; the first novel in le Carré’s Karla trilogy, originally published in 1974.
[9] NIGHT ROAD, by Kristin Hannah. (St. Martin’s Griffin, $14.99.) Three teenagers in a small, close-knit community make a calamitous decision that changes the course of their lives.
[10] THE HARBINGER, by Jonathan Cahn. (FrontLine, $16.99.) A man tells of his encounters with a mysterious figure who has given him a series of messages that hold the secret of America’s future
[11] SARAH’S KEY, by Tatiana de Rosnay. (St. Martin’s Griffin, $13.95.) A contemporary American journalist investigates what happened to a little girl and her family during the roundup of Jews in Paris in 1942.
[12] ONE SUMMER, by David Baldacci. (Grand Central, $13.99.) After the death of his devoted wife, a father struggles to keep his family together, and in the process learns to love again.
[13] THE ALCHEMIST, by Paulo Coelho. (HarperOne, $14.99.) In this fable, a Spanish shepherd boy ventures to Egypt in search of treasure and his destiny. 210
[14] A GAME OF THRONES, by George R. R. Martin. (Bantam, $17.) In the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are mustering; Book 1 of "A Song of Ice and Fire."
[15] CUTTING FOR STONE, by Abraham Verghese. (Vintage, $15.95.) Twin brothers, conjoined and then separated, grow up amid the political turmoil of Ethiopia.
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