Bestsellers: 'Eighteen' explodes

HARDCOVER -- FICTION

1. EXPLOSIVE EIGHTEEN, by Janet Evanovich (Bantam)

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

3. THE LITIGATORS, by John Grisham (Doubleday)

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

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

6. MICRO, by Michael Crichton and Richard Preston (Harper)

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

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

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

10. THE CHRISTMAS WEDDING, by James Patterson and Richard DiLallo (Little, Brown)

NONFICTION

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

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

3. BEING GEORGE WASHINGTON, by Glenn Beck (Threshold)

4. UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand (Random House)

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

6. GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS 2012 (Guinness World Records)

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

8. GO THE ---- TO SLEEP, by Adam Mansbach, illustrated by Ricardo Cortés (Akashic)

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

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

PAPERBACK

1. THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett (Berkley)

2. LONGING, by Karen Kingsbury (Zondervan)

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

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

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

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

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

8. UNLIKELY FRIENDSHIPS, by Jennifer S. Holland (Workman)

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

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