Our top 10 picks of books hitting bookstores this week . Click the titles to read our reviews, and click here to read our full On-Sale Calendar.

October 3

Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World by Michael Lewis (W.W. Norton, $25.95; ISBN 978-0-393-08181-7). 200,000 copies.

Changó's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes: A Novel by William Kennedy (Viking, $26.95; ISBN 978-0-670-02297-7). 75,000 copies.

October 4

Seriously... I'm Kidding by Ellen DeGeneres (Grand Central, $26; ISBN 978-0-446-58502-6). 750,000 copies.

The Night Strangers by Chris Bohjalian (Crown, $25; ISBN 978-0-307-39499-6). 125,000 copies.

The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje (Knopf, $26; ISBN 978-0-307-70011-7). 100,000 copies.

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker (Viking, $40; ISBN 978-0-670-02295-3). 100,000 copies.

Metamaus by Art Spiegelman (Pantheon, $35; ISBN 978-0-375-42394-9). 60,000 copies.

Nightwoods by Charles Frazier (Random House, $26; ISBN 978-1-4000-6709-1).

The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity by Jeffrey D. Sachs (Random House, $27; ISBN 978-1-4000-6841-8).

October 5

Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress—and a Plan to Stop It by Lawrence Lessig (Twelve, $26.99; ISBN 978-0-446-57643-7). 50,000 copies.