Fiction
1. "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest"
by Stieg Larsson ($27.95, Knopf)
2. "Storm Prey"
by John Sandford ($27.95, Putnam)
3. "The Help"
by Kathryn Stockett ($24.95, Putnam)
4. "61 Hours"
by Lee Child ($28, Delacorte)
5. "Beatrice and Virgil"
by Yann Martel ($24, Spiegel & Grau)
Nonfiction
1. "War"
by Sebastian Junger ($26.99, Twelve)
2. "Women, Food and God"
by Geneen Roth ($24, Scribner)
3. "The Last Stand"
by Nathaniel Philbrick ($30, Viking)
4. "The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine"
by Michael Lewis ($27.95, W.W. Norton & Co.)
5. "Hitch 22"
by Christopher Hitchens ($26.99, Twelve)