PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST-SELLERS For the week ending Oct. 24

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. “The Lost Symbol” by Dan Brown (Doubleday)

2. “Scarpetta” by Patricia Cornwell (Berkley)

3. “Pursuit of Honor: A Novel” by Vince Flynn (Atria)

4. “Nine Dragons” by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown)

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

6. “Heat Wave” by Richard Castle (Hyperion)

7. “Southern Lights: A Novel” by Danielle Steel (Delacorte Press)

8. “The Last Song” by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing)

9. “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel” by Jeannette Walls (Scribner)

10. “Blood Game: An Eve Duncan Forensics Thriller” by Iris Johansen (St. Martin’s Press)

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. “Have a Little Faith: A True Story” by Mitch Albom (Hyperion)

2. “SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance” by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner (William Morrow)

3. “What The Dog Saw: And Other Adventures” by Malcolm Gladwell, (Little, Brown)

4. “Arguing With Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government” by Glenn Beck (Threshold Editions)

5. “Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System — and Themselves” by Andrew Ross Sorkin (Viking)

6. “Knockout: Interviews with Doctors Who Are Curing Cancer — And How to Prevent Getting It in the First Place” by Suzanne Somers (Crown Publishing)

7. “True Compass: A Memoir” by Edward M. Kennedy (Twelve)

8. “Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters” by Chesley B. Sullenberg with Jeffrey Zaslow (William Morrow)

9. “Jim Cramer’s Getting Back To Even” by James J. Cramer with Cliff Mason (Simon & Schuster)

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