PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST-SELLERS For the week ending Oct.9

October 17, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. “The Reversal” by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown)

2. “Fall of Giants” by Ken Follett (Dutton)

3. “Freedom” by Jonathan Franzen (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

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

5. “Safe Haven” by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing)

6. “Don’t Blink” by James Patterson and Howard Roughan (Little, Brown)

7. “Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk” by David Sedaris (Little, Brown)

8. “Painted Ladies” by Robert B. Parker (Putnam)

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

10. “Bad Blood” by John Sandford (Putnam Adult)

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. “Obama’s Wars” by Bob Woodward (Simon & Schuster)

2. “Earth [The Book]” by Jon Stewart (Grand Central)

3. “Trickle Up Poverty” by Michael Savage (Morrow)

4. “Divine Transformation” by Zhi Gang Sha (Atria)

5. “The Roots of Obama’s Rage” by Dinesh D’Souza (Regnery)

6. “A**holes Finish First” by Tucker Max (Gallery)

7. “At Home” by Bill Bryson (Doubleday)

8. “Pinheads and Patriots” by Bill O’Reilly (William Morrow)

9. “Washington” by Ron Chernow (Penguin Press)

10. “The Grand Design” by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow (Bantam)