Bestselling Hardcover Fiction

Q is for Quarry by Sue Grafton Kinsey Millhone joins forces with two homicide detectives who are trying to solve a mystery that dates back to 1969. $26.95 / bestseller price: $21.56 Order The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold A 14-year-old girl looks down from heaven as she describes what happens in the aftermath of her kidnapping and murder. $21.95 / bestseller price: $17.56 Order Nights in Rodanthe by Nicholas Sparks After her husband leaves her for someone younger, a 45-year-old woman finds romance in a small town on the North Carolina coast. $22.95 / bestseller price: $18.36 Order The Crush by Sandra Brown A surgeon looks for help from a police detective when a contract killer becomes obsessed with her. $26.95 / bestseller price: $21.56 Order From A Buick 8 by Stephen King An abandoned 1954 Buick Roadmaster turns out to be a conduit to another, evil dimension. $28.00 / bestseller price: $22.40 Order Chasing the Dime by Michael Connelly A molecular chemist becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a call girl. $25.95 / bestseller price: $20.76 Order The Murder Book by Jonathan Kellerman The psychologist-detective Alex Delaware helps a friend in the Los Angeles Police Department probe the long-ago murder of a young woman. $26.95 / bestseller price: $21.56 Order The Janson Directive by Robert Ludlum A former American operative is lured out of retirement after a notorious terrorist kidnaps a philanthropic billionaire. $27.95 / bestseller price: $22.36 Order Blessings by Anna Quindlen When the young caretaker of an estate finds a newborn girl in a box, his employer, an 80-year-old matriarch, decides to help him keep the baby. $24.95 / bestseller price: $19.96 Order Blood Orchid by Stuart Woods Holly Barker, the police chief in Orchid Beach, Fla., discovers that the trail of clues to a murder leads to Miami. $25.95 / bestseller price: $20.76 Order The Thousand Orcs by R. A. Salvatore A fantasy novel featuring the mighty warrior Drizzt Do'Urden; the first volume of the "Hunter's Blade" trilogy. $25.95 / bestseller price: $20.76 Order Red Rabbit by Tom Clancy In the early 1980's, when he is a novice in the C.I.A., Jack Ryan must act to thwart a Soviet plot against Pope John Paul II. $28.95 / bestseller price: $23.16 Order I Don't Know How She Does It: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother by Allison Pearson A 35-year-old hedge fund manager in London struggles with her job, her children and her husband. $23.00 / bestseller price: $18.40 Order Baudolino by Umberto Eco $27.00 / bestseller price: $21.60 A 12th-century man, protégé of the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, ventures into a phantasmagorical landscape in search of the legendary Prester John. Order The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber In Victorian London, a 19-year-old prostitute tries to secure a better life. $26.00 / bestseller price: $20.80 Order

Bestselling Hardcover Nonfiction

Leadership by Rudolph W. Giuliani with Ken Kurson The former mayor of New York discusses what it takes to be a leader, and addresses subjects like the crime rate and 9/11. $25.95 / bestseller price: $20.76 Order My Losing Season by Pat Conroy The novelist remembers his last year playing basketball, as a point guard for the Citadel in 1966-67. $27.95 / bestseller price: $22.36 Order Let's Roll! Finding Hope in the Midst of Crisis by Lisa Beamer with Ken Abraham A memoir by the wife of Todd Beamer, one of the passengers on United Flight 93 on Sept. 11. $24.99 / bestseller price: $19.99 Order Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Ideas in Politics, Media, and Life by Sean Hannity The conservative commentator surveys domestic and foreign issues after Sept. 11. $25.95 / bestseller price: $20.76 Order Longitudes and Attitudes: America in the Age of Terrorism by Thomas Friedman Notes and reflections on Sept. 11, by a columnist for The Times. $23.00 / bestseller price: $18.40 Order Live from New York: An Oral History of Saturday Night Live by Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller With unprecedented access, the authors have interviewed the stars, writers, crews, and guests who have made "Saturday Night Live" the greatest long-running comedy show of all time. Out of these backstage stories they have woven an oral history that is the definitive account of the show's 25-year history of photos. $25.95 / bestseller price: $20.76 Order Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths by Bruce Feiler Judaism, Christianity, and Islam as seen through the story of one man. $23.95 / bestseller price: $19.16 Order Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy by Jane Leavy A biography of the great pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers. $23.95 / bestseller price: $19.96 Order Take on the Street: What Wall Street and Corporate America Don't Want You to Know, and What You Can Do to Fight Back by Arthur Levitt with Paula Dwyer The ultimate insider reveals the culture of collusion and how it affects the individual investor. With integrity and authority, Levitt gives essential advice on how not to lose money. $24.95 / bestseller price: $19.96 Order Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions by Ben Mezrich An exclusive blackjack club came up with a system to take the world's most sophisticated casinos for all they were worth. In two years, this ring of card savants earned more than three million dollars. $24.00 / bestseller price: $19.20 Order The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker A critique of the idea that we are shaped primarily by experience rather than by our genes. $27.95 / bestseller price: $22.36 Order The Threatening Storm: The United States and Saddam's Iraq by Kenneth M. Pollack A former official with the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Council makes the case for an invasion of Iraq. $25.95 / bestseller price: $20.76 Order I May Be Wrong But I Doubt It: Some Things I've Learned So Far by Charles Barkley. Edited by Michael Wilbon A collection of notable quotables dreams, role models, shoes, and more by the former N.B.A. star and current commentator Barkley. His book captures his brash wit and unfettered insights into matters of B-ball and beyond, including popular culture, relationships, celebrity, money, and politics. $22.95 / bestseller price: $18.36 Order Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before by Tony Horwitz The author of "Confederates in the Attic" recreates Capt. James Cook's three voyages to the Pacific in the 18th century. $26.00 / bestseller price: $20.80 Order The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story by Richard Preston Preston crafts a true-life medical thriller about the return of smallpox, now a prized biological weapon, and the crusade by three doctors to find the mastermind of the Anthrax scare of October 2001, and to stay one step ahead of bioterrorists by anticipating their next move. $24.95 / bestseller price: $19.96 Order

* The New York Times generates the bestseller list and ranks titles to reflect overall sales for the week ending October 12 at almost 4,000 bookstores plus wholesalers serving 50,000 other retailers (gift shops, department stores, newsstands, and supermarkets), statistically weighted to represent all such outlets nationwide.