Local bestsellers

1. "61 Hours"

by Lee Child ($28, Delacorte)

2. "Innocent"

by Scott Turow ($27, Grand Central)

3. "Storm Prey"

by John Sanford ($27.95, Putnam)

4. "Beatrice and Virgil"

by Yann Martel ($24, Spiegel & Grau)

5. "The Help"

by Kathryn Stockett ($24.95, Putnam)

2. "The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine"

by Michael Lewis ($27.95, W.W. Norton & Co.)

3. "Spoken From the Heart"

by Laura Bush ($30, Scribner)

4. "The Promise"

by Jonathan Alter ($28, Simon and Schuster)

5. "Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang"

by Chelsea Handler ($25.99, Grand Central)