Bestsellers: 'Alex Cross' kills at No. 1

HARDCOVER -- FICTION

1. KILL ALEX CROSS, by James Patterson (Little, Brown)

2. 11/22/63, by Stephen King (Scribner)

3. V IS FOR VENGEANCE, by Sue Grafton (Putnam)

4. THE LITIGATORS, by John Grisham (Doubleday)

5. THE BEST OF ME, by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central)

6. ZERO DAY, by David Baldacci (Grand Central)

7. DEVIL'S GATE, by Clive Cussler and Graham Brown (Putnam)

8. 1Q84, by Haruki Murakami (Knopf)

9. THE ALLOY OF LAW, by Brandon Sanderson (Tor)

10. THE PRAGUE CEMETERY, by Umberto Eco (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

HARDCOVER -- NONFICTION

1. STEVE JOBS, by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster)

2. THROW THEM ALL OUT, by Peter Schweizer (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

3. KILLING LINCOLN, by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard (Holt)

4. IMPERFECT JUSTICE, by Jeff Ashton with Lisa Pulitzer (Morrow)

5. BACK TO WORK, by Bill Clinton (Knopf)

6. JACK KENNEDY, by Chris Matthews (Simon & Schuster)

7. GABBY, by Gabrielle Giffords and Mark Kelly (Scribner)

8. NEARING HOME, by Billy Graham (Thomas Nelson)

9. THEN AGAIN, by Diane Keaton (Random House)

10. CATHERINE THE GREAT, by Robert K. Massie (Random House)

PAPERBACK

1. HEAVEN IS FOR REAL, by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent (Thomas Nelson)

2. THE NEXT ALWAYS, by Nora Roberts (Berkley)

3. THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett (Berkley)

4. SARAH'S KEY, by Tatiana de Rosnay (St. Martin's Griffin)

5. SING YOU HOME, by Jodi Picoult (Atria/Emily Bestler)

6. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, by Stieg Larsson (Vintage)

7. THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS, by Rebecca Skloot (Broadway)

8. THE TIGER'S WIFE, by Téa Obreht (Random House)

9. CUTTING FOR STONE, by Abraham Verghese (Vintage)

10. THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN, by Garth Stein (Harper)