A list of national bestsellers compiled by Publishers Weekly for the week ending Oct. 2.

HARDCOVER -- FICTION

 

1. HEAT RISES, by Richard Castle (Hyperion)

2. LETHAL, by Sandra Brown (Grand Central)

3. THE NIGHT CIRCUS, by Erin Morgenstern (Doubleday)

4. SON OF STONE, by Stuart Woods (Putnam)

5. REAMDE, by Neal Stephenson (Morrow)

6. KILL ME IF YOU CAN, by James Patterson and Marshall Karp (Little, Brown)

7. NEW YORK TO DALLAS, by J.D. Robb (Putnam)

8. THE ART OF FIELDING, by Chad Harbach (Little, Brown)

9. THE RACE, by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott (Putnam)

10. A DANCE WITH DRAGONS, by George R.R. Martin (Bantam)

HARDCOVER -- NONFICTION

 

1. JACQUELINE KENNEDY, foreword by Caroline Kennedy (Hyperion)

2. ENTRELEADERSHIP, by Dave Ramsey (Howard Books)

3. CONFIDENCE MEN, by Ron Suskind (Harper)

4. UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand (Random House)

5. EVERY DAY A FRIDAY, by Joel Osteen (FaithWords)

6. THE QUEST, by Daniel Yergin (Penguin Press)

7. IN MY TIME, by Dick Cheney with Liz Cheney (Threshold)

8. THE LEAN STARTUP, by Eric Ries (Crown)

9. THAT USED TO BE US, by Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

10. DESTINY OF THE REPUBLIC, by Candice Millard (Doubleday)

PAPERBACK

 

1. THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett (Berkley)

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

3. THE SIXTH MAN, by David Baldacci (Grand Central)

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

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

6. MONEYBALL, by Michael Lewis (Norton)

7. DON'T BLINK, by James Patterson and Howard Roughan (Grand Central)

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

9. SAFE HAVEN, by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central)

10. CLEOPATRA, by Stacy Schiff (Little, Brown / Back Bay)

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