Fiction

1. "The Help," by Kathryn Stockett ($24.95, Putnam)

2. "Dead in the Family," by Charlaine Harris ($25.95, Ace Hardcover)

3. "Shoot to Thrill," by P.J. Tracy ($25.95, Putnam Adult)

4. "Super," by Jim Lehrer ($25, Random House)

5. "Kane Chronicles," by Rick Riordan ($17.99, Hyperion)

Nonfiction

1. "The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine," by Michael Lewis ($27.95, W.W. Norton & Co.)

2. "The Last Stand," by Nathaniel Philbrick ($30, Viking)

3. "Born to Run," by Christopher McDougall ($24.95, Knopf)

4. "Spoken From the Heart," by Laura Bush ($30, Scribner)

5. "Half the Sky," by Nicholas D. Kristof ($15.95, Vintage)