1. A Safeway in Arizona: What the Gabrielle Giffords Shooting Tells Us About the Grand Canyon State and Life in America
Tom Zoellner, Viking ($26.95)
2. The Tools: Transform Your Problems Into Courage, Confidence, and Creativity
Phil Stutz and Barry Michels, Spiegel and Grau ($25)
3. Knocking on Heaven’s Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World
Lisa Randall, Ecco ($16.99)
4. The Casual Vacancy
J.K. Rowling, Little, Brown ($35)
5. A Guide to Southern Arizona’s Historic Farms and Ranches: Rustic Southwest Retreats
Lili DeBarbieri, History ($19.99)
6. Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love and Wisdom
Rick Hanson with Richard Mendius, New Harbinger ($17.95)
7. This Is How You Lose Her
Junot Díaz, Riverhead ($26.95)
8. Fifty Shades Freed: Book Three of the Fifty Shades Trilogy
E.L. James, Vintage ($15.95)
9. Cloud Atlas: A Novel
David Mitchell, Random House ($15)
10. The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
Stephen Greenblatt, W.W. Norton ($16.95)
This article appears in Oct 18-24, 2012.