NYTimes Best Sellers: 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. Playing For Pizza by John Grisham

2. The Choice by Nicholas Sparks

3. Dark Of The Moon by John Sandford

4. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

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

6. Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo

7. Run by Ann Patchett

8. Shoot Him If He Runs by Stuart Woods

9. The Orc King by R.A. Salvatore

10. Dead Heat by Dick Francis and Felix Francis