PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST-SELLERS | For the week ending Dec. 24

HARDCOVER FICTION

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. “Micro” by Michael Crichton & Richard Preston (Harper)

13. “1Q84” by Haruki Murakami (Knopf)

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

15. “The Art of Fielding” by Chad Harbach (Little, Brown)

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. “Guinness World Records 2012” by Guinness World Records

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

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

8. “Every Day a Friday” by Joel Osteen (FaithWords)

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

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

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

12. “Thinking, Fast and Slow” by Daniel Kahneman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

13. “Catherine the Great” by Robert K. Massie (Random House)

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

15. “Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Strikingly True” by Geoff Tibballs (Ripley)

mass market

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

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

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

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

5. “A Game of Thrones” by George R.R. Martin (Bantam)

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

7. “A Feast for Crows” by George R.R. Martin (Bantam)

8. “The Shack” by William P. Young (Windblown Media)

9. “Crescent Dawn” by Clive Cussler & Dirk Cussler (Berkley)

10. “The Confession” by John Grisham (Dell)

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 Zombie Survival Guide” by Max Brooks (Three Rivers)

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

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

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

9. “Unlikely Friendships” by Jennifer S. Holland (Workman)

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