Best-sellers \ Publishers Weekly


For the week ending Aug. 8:

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. “Bad Moon Rising: A Dark-Hunter Novel” by Sherrilyn Kenyon (St. Martin’s)

2. “That Old Cape Magic: A Novel” by Richard Russo (Knopf)

3. “The Girl Who Played With Fire” by Stieg Larsson (Knopf)

4. “Best Friends Forever” by Jennifer Weiner (Atria)

5. “The Help” by Kathryn Stockett (Putnam/Amy Einhorn)

6. “Inherent Vice” by Thomas Pynchon (Penguin)

7. “Swimsuit” by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown)

8. “The Defector” by Daniel Silva (Putnam)

9. “The Traffickers” by W.E.B. Griffin, William E. Butterworth IV (Putnam Adult)

10. “Twenties Girl” by Sophie Kinsella (Dial Press)

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. “Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies” by Michelle Malkin (Regnery Publishing)

2. “Outliers: The Story of Success” by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown)

3. “Catastrophe” by Dick Morris, Eileen McGann (Harper)

4. “Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment” by Steve Harvey (Amistad)

5. “In the President’s Secret Service: Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect” by Ronald Kessler (Crown)

6. “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” by Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle, Simone Beck, and Sidonie Coryn (Alfred A. Knopf)

7. “Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto” by Mark R. Levin (Threshold Editions)

8. “The Last Lecture” by Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow (Hyperion)

9. “Our Lady of Guadalupe: Mother of the Civilization of Love” by Carl Anderson, Eduardo Chavez (Doubleday Religion)

10. “Michael Jackson: The Magic, The Madness, The Whole Story, 1958-2009” by J. Randy Taraborrelli (Grand Central)

MASS MARKET PAPERBACKS

1. “Bengals Heart” by Lora Leigh (Berkley)

2. “Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein: Dead and Alive” by Dean Koontz (Bantam)

3. “Storm of Visions: the Chosen Ones” by Christina Dodd (Signet)

4. “The Quickie” by James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge (Vision)

TRADE PAPERBACKS

1. “The Time Traveler’s Wife” by Audrey Niffenegger (Mariner Books)

2. “Glenn Beck’s Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine” by Glenn Beck (Threshold Editions)

3. “The Shack” by William P. Young (Windblown Media)

4. “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” by Stieg Larsson (Vintage)