Best-sellers Publishers Weekly

August 30, 2009 at 12:00a.m.

For the week ending Aug. 22:

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. “South of Broad” by Pat Conroy (Nan A. Talese)

2. “The White Queen” by Philippa Gregory (Touchstone)

3. “Dreamfever” by Karen Marie Moning (Dell)

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

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

6. “Star Wars: Fate Of The Jedi: Abyss” by Troy Denning (Del Rey)

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

8. “The Eleventh Victim” by Nancy Grace (Hyperion)

9. “Smash Cut” by Sandra Brown (Simon & Schuster)

10. “The Law of Nines” by Terry Goodkind (Putnam)

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

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

2. “Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume I” by Julia Child et al (Knopf)

3. “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)

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

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

6. “Flat Belly Diet! Cookbook” by Liz Vaccariello with Cynthia Sass (Rodale)

7. “Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen” by Christopher McDougall (Knopf)

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

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

10. “Zeitoun” by Dave Eggers (McSweeneys)