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

2. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

3. Dead Heat by Dick Francis and Felix Francis

4. Making Money by Terry Pratchett

5. Pontoon by Garrison Keillor

6. The Wheel Of Darkness by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

7. Jonathan's Story by Julia London with Alina Adams

8. Wednesday Letters by Jason F. Wright

9. Bones To Ashes by Kathy Reichs

10. The Bone Garden by Tess Gerritsen