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)