National bestsellers: May 22

1. 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.

2. STORM PREY, by John Sandford. (Putnam, $27.95.) Lucas Davenport's wife is a witness to a botched robbery and murder in the 20th novel in the "Prey" series.

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

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

5. INNOCENT, by Scott Turow. (Grand Central, $27.99.) When Rusty Sabich's wife is found dead, Tommy Molto accuses him of murder for the second time, as Turow revisits the characters from "Presumed Innocent."

6. HEART OF THE MATTER, by Emily Giffin. (St. Martin's, $26.99.) The lives of two women -- one married to a pediatric plastic surgeon, the other a lawyer and single mother -- converge after an accident involving the lawyer's son.

7. THE 9TH JUDGMENT, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) Detective Lindsay Boxer pursues a killer who's preying on women and children.

9. DELIVER US FROM EVIL, by David Baldacci. (Grand Central, $27.99.) Two agents are tracking the same man, a human trafficker who is now dealing in nuclear arms.

10. A SECRET AFFAIR, by Mary Balogh. (Delacorte, $24.) The young widow of an elderly duke falls in love with Constantine Huxtable in the final entry of the Huxtable family series.

1. SPOKEN FROM THE HEART, by Laura Bush. (Scribner, $30.) A memoir from the former First Lady.

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

3. THE BIG SHORT, by Michael Lewis. (Norton, $27.95.) The people who saw the real estate crash coming and made billions from their foresight.

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

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

7. ---- 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.

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

9. OPERATION MINCEMEAT, by Ben Macintyre. (Harmony, $25.99.) The British ruse that employed a corpse to fool the Nazis about the invasion of Sicily.

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

2. THE WAY WE'RE WORKING ISN'T WORKING, by Tony Schwartz with Jean Gomes and Catherine McCarthy. (Free Press, $28.) Advice on re-energizing and re-engaging yourself on the job and off.

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

4. HEROES FOR MY SON, by Brad Meltzer. (HarperStudio/HarperCollins, $19.99.) Brief profiles of 52 people a youngster can look up to.

5. 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.