PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST-SELLERS | For the week ending Jan. 8

January 16, 2011 at 12:00a.m.

HARDCOVER FICTION

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

2. “What the Night Knows” by Dean Koontz (Bantam)

3. “Dead or Alive” by Tom Clancy with Grant Blackwood (Putnam)

4. “The Confession” by John Grisham (Doubleday)

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

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

7. “Cross Fire” by James Patterson (Little, Brown)

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

9. “Secrets to the Grave” by Tami Hoag (Dutton)

10. “Three Seconds” by Anders Roslund & Borge Hellstrom (Silver Oak)

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

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

2. “Decision Points” by George W. Bush (Crown)

3. “The 7” by Glenn Beck & Keith Ablow, M.D. (Threshold)

4. “The 4-Hour Body” by Timothy Ferriss (Crown)

5. “Cleopatra” by Stacy Schiff (Little, Brown)

6. “Cinch” by Cynthia Sass (HarperOne)

7. “Life” by Keith Richards (Little, Brown)

8. “Straight Talk, No Chaser” by Steve Harvey (Amistad)

9. “Change the Culture, Change the Game” by Roger Connors & Tom Smith (Portfolio)

10. “Autobiography of Mark Twain” edited by Harriet Elinor Smith (Univ. of Calif. Press)

MASS MARKET

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

2. “Deliver Us from Evil” by David Baldacci (Vision)

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

4. “Ruthless Game” by Christine Feehan (Jove)

5. “Live to Tell” by Lisa Gardner (Bantam)

trade

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

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

3. “Cutting for Stone” by Abraham Verghese (Vintage)

4. “House Rules” by Jodi Picoult (Washington Square Press)

5. “Water for Elephants” by Sara Gruen (Algonquin)