FICTION
1. THE LAND OF PAINTED CAVES, by Jean M. Auel. (Crown, $30.) The latest volume in a series that began with "The Clan of the Cave Bear," set during the Ice Age.
2. LOVER UNLEASHED, by J.R. Ward. (New American Library, $27.95.) Book 9 of the Black Dagger Brotherhood series.
3. MYSTERY, by Jonathan Kellerman. (Ballantine, $28.) Los Angeles psychologist/detective Alex Delaware and detective Milo Sturgis work on a grisly homicide case.
4. LIVE WIRE, by Harlan Coben. (Dutton, $27.95.) Myron Bolitar's search for a missing rock star leads to questions about his own missing brother.
5. TOYS, by James Patterson and Neil McMahon. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) Hays Baker, a top operative for the Agency of Change and a national hero, suddenly finds himself a hunted fugitive who must fight to save humans from extinction.
6. THE TROUBLED MAN, by Henning Mankell. (Knopf, $26.95.) In the final volume in the Kurt Wallander series, the Swedish detective searches for a missing retired naval officer.
7. SING YOU HOME, by Jodi Picoult. (Atria, $28.) Picoult takes on the issue of gay rights in this novel about a music therapist who desperately wants a child; CD of songs included.
8. THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET'S NEST, by Stieg Larsson. (Knopf, $27.95.) The third volume of the Millennium trilogy, about a Swedish hacker and a journalist.