PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST-SELLERS For the week ending May 1

May 9, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. “The 9th Judgment” by James Patterson & Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown)

2. “Lover Mine” by J.R. Ward (NAL)

3. “Deliver Us from Evil” by David Baldacci (Grand Central)

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

5. “Hannah’s List” by Debbie Macomber (Mira)

6. “The Shadow of Your Smile” by Mary Higgins Clark (Simon & Schuster)

7. “This Body of Death” by Elizabeth George (Harper)

8. “The Double Comfort Safari Club” by Alexander McCall Smith (Pantheon)

9. “Every Last One” by Anna Quindlen (Random House)

10. “Lucid Intervals” by Stuart Woods (Putnam)

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

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

2. “This Time Together” by Carol Burnett (Harmony)

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

4. “Oprah” by Kitty Kelley (Crown)

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

6. “The Master Your Metabolism Cookbook” by Jillian Michaels (Crown)

7. “This Is Why You’re Fat” by Jackie Warner (Wellness Central)

8. “The Other Wes Moore” by Wes Moore (Spiegel & Grau)

9. “The Bedwetter” by Sarah Silverman (Harper)

10. “Lift” by Kelly Corrigan (Voice)