PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST-SELLERS For the week ending Aug.14

August 22, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest” by Stieg Larsson (Knopf)

2. “Tough Customer” by Sandra Brown (Simon & Schuster)

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

4. “Star Island” by Carl Hiaasen (Knopf)

5. “Veil of Night” by Linda Howard (Ballantine)

6. “The Red Queen” by Philippa Gregory (Touchstone)

7. “The Vigilantes” by W.E.B. Griffin & William E. Butterworth IV (Putnam)

8. “The Rembrandt Affair” by Daniel Silva (Putnam)

9. “Private” by James Patterson & Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown)

10. “Fly Away Home” by Jennifer Weiner (Atria)

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. “Women Food and God” by Geneen Roth (Scribner)

2. “Sh*t My Dad Says” by Justin Halpern (It Books)

3. “Bury My Heart at Conference Room B” by Stan Slap (Portfolio)

4. “It’s Not Just Who You Know” by Tommy Spaulding (Crown Business)

5. “The Obama Diaries” by Laura Ingraham (Threshold)

6. “Empire of the Summer Moon” by S.C. Gwynne (Scribner)

7. “Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang” by Chelsea Handler (Grand Central)

8. “The Mentor Leader” by Tony Dungy with Nathan Whitaker (Tyndale)

9. “Angelina” by Andrew Morton (St. Martin’s)

10. “The Big Short” by Michael Lewis (Norton)