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

4. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

5. Shoot Him If He Runs by Stuart Woods

6. Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo

7. The Orc King by R.A. Salvatore

8. Run by Ann Patchett

9. Dead Heat by Dick Francis and Felix Francis

10. Making Money by Terry Pratchett