PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST-SELLERS Week ending Sept. 3

September 11, 2011 at 12:00a.m.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. “Kill Me If You Can” by James Patterson & Marshall Karp (Little, Brown)

2. “A Dance with Dragons” by George R.R. Martin (Bantam)

3. “The Sookie Stackhouse Companion” by Charlaine Harris (Ace)

4. “Flash and Bones” by Kathy Reichs (Scribner)

5. “A Trick of the Light” by Louise Penny (Minotaur)

6. “The Leftovers” by Tom Perrotta (St. Martin’s)

7. “Only Time Will Tell” by Jeffrey Archer (St. Martin’s)

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

9. “The Omen Machine” by Terry Goodkind (Tor)

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

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. “In My Time” by Dick Cheney with Liz Cheney (Threshold)

2. “A Stolen Life” by Jaycee Dugard (Simon & Schuster)

3. “The 17 Day Diet” by Dr. Mike Moreno (Free Press)

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

5. “Go the F*** to Sleep” by Adam Mansbach, illus. by Ricardo Cortes (Akashic)

6. “In the Garden of Beasts” by Erik Larson (Crown)

7. “The Greater Journey” by David McCullough (Simon & Schuster)

8. “The Dukan Diet” by Dr. Pierre Dukan (Crown)

9. “Prime Time” by Jane Fonda (Random House)

9. “The Greater Journey” by David McCullough (

10. “1493” by Charles C. Mann (Knopf)

MASS MARKET

1. “The Reversal” by Michael Connelly (Vision)

2. “1105 Yakima Street” by Debbie Macomber (Mira)

3. “Port Mortuary” by Patricia Cornwell (Berkley)

4. “American Assassin” by Vince Flynn (Pocket)

5. “Canyons of Night” by Jayne Castle (Jove)

6. “Wicked Appetite” by Janet Evanovich (St. Martin’s)

TRADE

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

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

3. “One Day” by David Nicholls (Vintage)

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

5. “Sarah’s Key” by Tatiana de Rosnay (St. Martin’s Griffin)

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