Baldacci's 'The Hit' is a hit bestseller

Publishers Weekly's list of national bestsellers powered by Nielsen BookScan for the week ending Oct. 6.

HARDCOVER

FICTION

1. DOCTOR SLEEP, by Stephen King (Scribner)

2. GONE, by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge (Little, Brown)

3. THE LONGEST RIDE, by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central)

4. THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS, by Elizabeth Gilbert (Viking)

5. W IS FOR WASTED, by Sue Grafton (Putnam)

6. NEVER GO BACK, by Lee Child (Delacorte)

7. THE QUEST, by Nelson DeMille (Hachette/Center Street)

8. DEADLINE, by Sandra Brown (Grand Central)

9. THE LOWLAND, by Jhumpa Lahiri (Knopf)

10. SILENCING EVE, by Iris Johansen (St. Martin's)

NONFICTION

1. KILLING JESUS, by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard (Henry Holt)

2. DAVID AND GOLIATH, by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown)

3. SI-COLOGY 1, by Si Robertson (Howard Books)

4. BREAK OUT!, by Joel Osteen (FaithWords)

5. WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF?, by David Jeremiah (Tyndale)

6. GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS 2014 (Guinness World Records)

7. THERE'S MORE TO LIFE THAN THIS, by Theresa Caputo (Atria)

8. ONE SUMMER, by Bill Bryson (Doubleday)

9. HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY, by Phil Robertson (Howard Books)

10. TIP AND THE GIPPER, by Chris Matthews (Simon & Schuster)

PAPERBACK

1. THE HIT, by David Baldacci (Grand Central)

2. PROOF OF HEAVEN, by Eben Alexander (Simon & Schuster)

3. THE CASUAL VACANCY, by J.K. Rowling (Little, Brown)

4. THE RACKETEER, by John Grisham (Bantam)

5. THE TRAINING, by Tara Sue Me (NAL)

6. THE CHEW, by Mario Batali (Hyperion)

7. FOUR BLOOD MOONS, by John Hagee (Worthy)

8. WHY GRIZZLY BEARS SHOULD WEAR UNDERPANTS, by Matthew Inman (Andrews McMeel)

9. I DECLARE, by Joel Osteen (FaithWords)

10. BEAUTIFUL RUINS, by Jess Walter (Harper Perennial)