Bestsellers: 'Shock Wave' rings at No. 1

A list of national bestsellers compiled by Publishers Weekly for the week ending Oct. 16.

HARDCOVER -- FICTION

1. SHOCK WAVE, by John Sandford (Putnam)

2. THE AFFAIR, by Lee Child (Delacorte)

3. SURVIVORS, by James Wesley Rawles (Atria)

4. NEVERWINTER SAGA, BOOK II, by R.A. Salvatore (Wizards of the Coast)

5. LETHAL, by Sandra Brown (Grand Centra)

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

7. 1225 CHRISTMAS TREE LANE, by Debbie Macomber (Mira)

8. ALEPH, by Paulo Coelho (Knopf)

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

10. THE DOVEKEEPERS, by Alice Hoffman (Scribner)

HARDCOVER -- NONFICTION

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

2. BOOMERANG, by Michael Lewis (Norton)

3. I NEVER THOUGHT I'D SEE THE DAY!, by David Jeremiah (FaithWords)

4. SERIOUSLY . . . I'M KIDDING, by Ellen DeGeneres (Grand Central)

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

6. THIS IS HERMAN CAIN!, by Herman Cain (Threshold)

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

8. THE ULTIMATE QUESTION 2.0, by Fred Reichheld with Rob Markey (Harvard Business Press)

9. UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand (Random House)

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

PAPERBACK

1. THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett (Berkley)

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

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

4. MONEYBALL, by Michael Lewis (Norton)

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

6. ROOM, by Emma Donoghue (Little, Brown / Back Bay)

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

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

9. THE FIFTH WITNESS, by Michael Connelly (Grand Central)

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