Best-sellers Publishers Weekly For the week ending Oct. 13

October 18, 2009 at 12:00a.m.

HARDCOVER FICTION

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

2. “A Touch of Dead” by Charlaine Harris (Ace)

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

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

5. “Evidence” by Jonathan Kellerman (Ballantine)

6. “The Professional” by Robert B. Parker (Putnam Adult)

7. “Rough Country,” by John Sandford (Putnam Adult)

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

9. “An Echo in the Bone” by Diana Gabaldon (Delacorte)

10. “Her Fearful Symmetry” by Audrey Niffenegger (Scribner)

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

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

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

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

4. “The Murder of King Tut” by James Patterson, Martin Dugard (Little, Brown)

5. “The Time of My Life” by Patrick Swayze, Lisa Niemi (Atria)

6. “Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman” by Jon Krakauer (Doubleday)

7. “Postsecret” by Frank Warren (Morrow)

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

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

10. “The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution” by Richard Dawkins (Free Press)

MASS MARKET PAPERBACKS

1. “The Associate” by John Grisham (Dell)

2. “Cross Country” by James Patterson (Vision)

3. “Covet” by J.R. Ward (Signet)

4. “Heat Lightning” by John Sandford (Berkley)

5. “Born of Night” Sherrilyn Kenyon (Saint Martin’s Paperbacks)

TRADE PAPERBACKS

1. “Say You’re One of Them” by Uwem Akpan (Little, Brown)

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

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

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

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