Publishers weekly Best-sellers For the week ending Jan. 9

HARDCOVER FICTION

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

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

3. “Noah’s Compass” by Anne Tyler (Knopf)

4. “I, Alex Cross” by James Patterson (Little, Brown)

5. “Impact” by Douglas Preston (Forge)

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

7. “Deeper Than the Dead” by Tami Hoag (Dutton)

8. “The Honor of Spies” by W.E.B. Griffin (Putnam)

9. “Sizzle” by Julie Garwood (Ballantine)

10. “Under the Dome” by Stephen King (Scribner)

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. “Committed” by Elizabeth Gilbert (Viking)

2. “Have a Little Faith” by Mitch Albom (Hyperion)

3. “Going Rogue” by Sarah Palin (Harper)

4. “SuperFreakonomics” by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner (Morrow)

5. “Outliers” by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown)

6. “The Happiness Project” by Gretchen Rubin (Harper)

7. “You: On a Diet, Revised” by Drs. Michael F. Roizen & Mehmet C. Oz (Free Press)

8. “What the Dog Saw” by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown)

9. “The Checklist Manifesto” by Atul Gawande (Metropolitan Books)

10. “The Mayo Clinic Diet” by Mayo Clinic Weight-loss Experts (Good Books)

MASS MARKET Paperbacks

1. “Dear John” by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central)

2. “The Lovely Bones” by Alice Sebold (Little, Brown)

3. “Plum Spooky” by Janet Evanovich (St. Martin’s)

4. “The Devil’s Punchbowl” by Greg Iles (Pocket Star)

5. “Vanishing Act” by Fern Michaels (Zebra)

6. “Street Game” by Christine Feehan (Jove)

7. “Fire and Ice” by Julie Garwood (Ballantine)

8. “The Man You’ll Marry” by Debbie Macomber (Mira)

9. “Black Ops” by W.E.B. Griffin (Jove)

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

TRADE

1. “The Lovely Bones” by Alice Sebold (L.B./Black Bay)

2. “A Reliable Wife” by Robert Goolrick (Algonquin)

3. “The Blind Side” by Michael Lewis (Norton)

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

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

6. “Eat, Pray, Love” by Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin)

7. “Three Cups of Tea” by Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin (Penguin)

8. “Push” by Sapphire (Vintage)

9. “Food Rules” by Michael Pollan (Penguin)

10. “Dear John” by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central)