Publishers Weekly Best-sellers

September 6, 2009 at 12:00a.m.

For the week ending Aug. 29:

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. “Alex Cross’s Trial” by James Patterson, Richard DiLallo (Little, Brown)

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

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

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

5. “206 Bones: A Novel” by Kathy Reichs (Scribner)

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

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

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

9. “Dead and Gone” by Charlaine Harris (Ace)

10. “Even Money” by Dick Francis, Felix Francis (Putnam Adult)

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. “Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume I” by Julia Child, Simone Beck, Louisette Bertholle (Knopf)

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

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

4. “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)

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

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

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

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

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

10. “A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog” by Dean Koontz (Hyperion)