Best sellers

1. THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET'S NEST, by Stieg Larsson. (Knopf, $27.95.) The third volume of a trilogy about a Swedish hacker and a journalist.

2. BULLET, by Laurell K. Hamilton. (Berkley, $26.95.) Anita Blake, vampire hunter, is menaced by the Mother of All Darkness, who wants to take over her body.

3. THE SPY, by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott. (Putnam, $27.95.) In 1908, a murder leads the detective Isaac Bell to investigate international spies who are trying to keep the United States from developing a fleet of dreadnought battleships.

4. THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett. (Amy Einhorn/Putnam, $24.95.) A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s Mississippi.

5. DEAD IN THE FAMILY, by Charlaine Harris. (Ace, $25.95.) Sookie Stackhouse is exhausted in the aftermath of a Fae war.

6. 61 HOURS, by Lee Child. (Delacorte, $28.) Jack Reacher helps the police in a small South Dakota town protect a witness in a drug trial.

7. THE BURNING WIRE, by Jeffery Deaver. (Simon & Schuster, $26.99.) The forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme investigates a series of murderous electrical explosions and tracks the killer known as the Watchmaker to Mexico.

9. THE BOURNE OBJECTIVE, by Eric Van Lustbader. (Grand Central, $27.99.) Robert Ludlum's Jason Bourne matches wits with a vicious Russian mercenary.

10. INNOCENT, by Scott Turow. (Grand Central, $27.99.) Turow revisits the characters from "Presumed Innocent."

1. S--- MY DAD SAYS, by Justin Halpern. (It Books/HarperCollins, $15.99.) A coming-of-age memoir organized around the musings, purveyed on Twitter, of the author's father.

2(x). WAR, by Sebastian Junger. (Twelve, $26.99.) The intense lives of U.S. soldiers in a lethal corner of Afghanistan, by the author of "The Perfect Storm."

3. SPOKEN FROM THE HEART, by Laura Bush. (Scribner, $30.) A memoir from the former first lady.

5. CHELSEA CHELSEA BANG BANG, by Chelsea Handler. (Grand Central, $25.99.) More humorous personal essays from the comedian.

6. TO SAVE AMERICA, by Newt Gingrich with Joe DeSantis. (Regnery, $29.95.) Reversing President Obama's policies, by the former speaker of the House of Representatives. (b)

7(x). THE LAST STAND, by Nathaniel Philbrick. (Viking, $30.) Custer, Sitting Bull and the Battle of the Little Big Horn.

8. OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) Why some people succeed, from the author of "Blink."

9. THE PROMISE, by Jonathan Alter. (Simon & Schuster, $28.) A detailed look at President Obama's decisionmaking process on issues like health care and the Afghanistan war offers a sense of what it's like to work in his White House.

1. WOMEN FOOD AND GOD, by Geneen Roth. (Scribner, $24.) How women can improve their relationship with their bodies, food and God.

2. THE LAST LECTURE, by Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow. (Hyperion, $21.95.) Thoughts on "seizing every moment," from a Carnegie Mellon University professor who died of cancer at age 47.

3. SWITCH, by Chip Heath and Dan Heath. (Broadway, $26.) How everyday people can effect transformative change at work and in life. (b)

4. LIFE IS WHAT YOU MAKE IT, by Peter Buffett. (Harmony, $23.99.) A son of Warren Buffett discusses the need to forge your own path in life.

5. ACT LIKE A LADY, THINK LIKE A MAN, by Steve Harvey with Denene Millner. (Amistad/HarperCollins, $23.99.) Tips on relationships from the comedian and host of "The Steve Harvey Morning Show."