PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST-SELLERS For the week ending Dec. 17

December 25, 2011 at 12:00a.m.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. “11/22/63” by Stephen King (Scribner)

2. “Locked On” by Tom Clancy with Mark Greaney (Putnam)

3. “The Litigators” by John Grisham (Doubleday)

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

5. “Death Comes to Pemberley” by P.D. James (Knopf)

6. “The Best of Me” by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central)

7. “Red Mist” by Patricia Cornwell (Putnam)

8. “Explosive Eighteen” by Janet Evanovich (Bantam)

9. “The Drop” by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown)

10. “V Is for Vengeance” by Sue Grafton (Putnam,)

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. “Steve Jobs” by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster)

2. “Killing Lincoln” by Bill O’Reilly & Martin Dugard (Holt)

3. “Unbroken” by Laura Hillenbrand (Random House)

4. “Go the F--k to Sleep” by Adam Mansbach, illus. by Ricardo Cortes (Akashic)

5. “Jack Kennedy” by Chris Matthews (Simon & Schuster)

6. “Nearing Home” by Billy Graham (Thomas Nelson)

7. “Being George Washington” by Glenn Beck (Threshold)

8. “Paula Deen’s Southern Cooking Bible” by Paula Deen with Melissa Clark (Simon & Schuster)

9. “Guinness World Records 2012” by Guinness World Records

10. “Through My Eyes” by Tim Tebow with Nathan Whitaker (HarperOne)

mass market

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

2. “Toys” by James Patterson & Neil McMahon (Vision)

3. “The Girl Who Played with Fire” by Stieg Larsson (Vintage)

4. “The Land of Painted Caves” by Jean M. Auel (Bantam)

5. “Lawe’s Justice” by Lora Leigh (Berkley)

6. “Storm of Swords” by George R.R. Martin (Bantam)

7. “Smokin’ Seventeen” by Janet Evanovich (Bantam)

trade

1. “The Help” by Kathryn Stockett (Berkley)

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

3. “Heaven Is for Real” by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent (Thomas Nelson)

4. “The Tiger’s Wife” by Tea Obreht (Random House)

5. “The Art of Racing in the Rain” by Garth Stein (Harper)

6. “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot (Broadway)

7. “The Next Always” by Nora Roberts (Berkley)