NYTimes Bestsellers: Fiction (now with excerpts!)

To read the first chapters (or, in the case of stingier authors and/or publishers, brief excerpts), simply click the titles.

1. You've Been Warned by James Patterson and Howard Roughan

2. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

3. Pontoon by Garrison Keillor

4. The Wheel of Darkness by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

3. Bones To Ashes by Kathy Reichs

4. Dark Possession by Christine Feehan

5. Bones To Ashes by Kathy Reichs

6. Wednesday Letters by Jason F. Wright

7. Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen

8. The Quickie by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge

9. Dark Possession by Christine Feehan

10. The Elves of Cintra by Terry Brooks