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1 BEST FRIENDS FOREVER, by Jennifer Weiner. (Atria, $26.99.) Childhood friends, estranged in high school, reunite years later when the popular one needs the mousy one’s help. 1   1 UNMASKED, by Ian Halperin. (Simon Spotlight Entertainment, $25.) Michael Jackson’s final years. 1
2 SWIMSUIT, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) A former cop, now a reporter for The Los Angeles Times, investigates the disappearance of a supermodel. 2 3   2 OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) Why some people succeed, from the author of “Blink.”  1 35
3 BLACK HILLS, by Nora Roberts. (Putnam, $26.95.) A South Dakota wildlife biologist and an ex-cop, childhood sweethearts, reunite to pursue a serial killer. 1 2   3 LIBERTY AND TYRANNY, by Mark R. Levin. (Threshold Editions, $25.) A conservative manifesto from a talk-show host and president of Landmark Legal Foundation. 2 17
4 FINGER LICKIN’ FIFTEEN, by Janet Evanovich. (St. Martin’s, $27.95.) The bounty hunter Stephanie Plum tracks a celebrity chef’s killer. 3 4   4 CATASTROPHE, by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann. (Harper/HarperCollins, $26.99.) Stopping President Obama before he transforms America into a socialist state. (†) (†) 3 4
5 THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett. (Amy Einhorn/Putnam, $24.95.) A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s ­Mississippi. 8 16   5 THE ACCIDENTAL BILLIONAIRES, by Ben Mezrich. ( Doubleday, $25.) How two Harvard undergraduates created Facebook. 1
6 RAIN GODS, by James Lee Burke. (Simon & Schuster, $25.99.) A Texas sheriff investigates a mass murder of illegal aliens and tries to find the young Iraq war veteran who may have been involved — before the F.B.I. can. 1   6 HORSE SOLDIERS, by Doug Stanton. (Scribner, $28.) A small group of Special Forces soldiers fought the Taliban on horseback shortly after 9/11. 4 10
7* THE DOOMSDAY KEY, by James Rollins. (Morrow/HarperCollins, $27.99.) Sigma Force operatives attempt to solve an ancient mystery that has deadly consequences. 7 4   7 THE END OF OVEREATING, by David A. Kessler. (Rodale, $25.95.) How eating sugar, fat and salt affects our minds and bodies and encourages overindulgence. 5 11
8 THE DEVIL’S PUNCHBOWL, by Greg Iles. (Scribner, $26.99.) The mayor of Natchez, Miss., pursues a killer who opposes his attempt to clean up riverboat gambling. 4 2   8 BOBBY AND JACKIE, by C. David Heymann. (Atria, $26.) The connection between Bobby and Jackie Kennedy. 1
9 THE APOSTLE, by Brad Thor. (Atria, $26.99.) Scot Harvath, a Homeland Security superagent, is asked to free al Qaeda mastermind from an Afghan prison as part of a ransom deal. 5 3   9* THE BECKHAM EXPERIMENT, by Grant Wahl. (Crown, $24.99.) David Beckham’s attempt to transform soccer into a popular sport in America. 1
10 GUARDIAN OF LIES, by Steve Martini. (Morrow/HarperCollins, $26.99.) The lawyer Paul Madriani unravels a mystery involving gold coins, the C.I.A., and a weapon forgotten since the Cuban missile crisis. 1   10 MOMMYWOOD, by Tori Spelling with Hilary Liftin. (Simon Spotlight Entertainment, $25.) Humorous stories about Hollywood motherhood. 9 6
11 THE CASTAWAYS, by Elin Hilderbrand. (Little, Brown, $24.99.) A Nantucket couple drowns, raising questions and precipitating conflicts among their group of friends. 10 2   11 TEARS IN THE DARKNESS, by Michael Norman and Elizabeth M. Norman. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $30.) The Bataan death march and its aftermath. 8 4
12* DEAD AND GONE, by Charlaine Harris. (Ace, $25.95.) Sookie Stackhouse searches for the killer of a werepanther.  16 11   12 THE GIRLS FROM AMES, by Jeffrey Zaslow. (Gotham, $26.) An enduring friendship among a group of Midwestern women. 6 12
13 SHANGHAI GIRLS, by Lisa See. (Random House, $25.) Two Chinese sisters in the 1930s are sold as wives to men from California, and leave their war-torn country to join them. 12 8   13 BORN TO RUN, by Christopher McDougall. (Knopf, $24.95.) Secrets of distance running from a Mexican Indian tribe. 6
14 UNDONE, by Karin Slaughter. (Delacorte, $26.) Dr. Sara Linton works with agents of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to stop a killer who tortures his victims. 1   14* MAGNIFICENT DESOLATION, by Buzz Aldrin with Ken Abraham. (Harmony, $27.) A first-person account of the first lunar landing and a description of personal challenges back on Earth, by the former astronaut. 2
15 RETURN TO SULLIVANS ISLAND, by Dorothea Benton Frank. (Morrow/HarperCollins, $25.99.) A young woman returns to her family’s South Carolina island home. 9 3   15 THE EVOLUTION OF GOD, by Robert Wright. (Little, Brown, $25.99.) How Western religions have become more tolerant over time, creating a worldview that has room for both science and the divine. 2

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