http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpresscom-popular-posts/
is the one I use. it offers template tags to hardcode into yur theme if you like, or shortcode for pages/posts, or a widget
So it seems to do everything you want
It is dependent upon the wordpress.com stats plugin, or the jetpack plugin however to function. I like the wp.com ststs plugin personally
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