Bestsellers: The Week's Hottest Reads From Publishers Weekly

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. "Tick Tock" by James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge (Little, Brown)

2. "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest" by Stieg Larsson (Knopf)

3. "Strategic Moves" by Stuart Woods (Putnam Adult)

4. "The Inner Circle" by Brad Meltzer (Grand Central Publishing)

5. "Shadowfever" by Karen Marie Moning (Delacorte Press)

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

7. "The Sentry" by Robert Crais (Putnam Adult)

8. "Dead or Alive" by Tom Clancy and Grant Blackwood (Putnam Adult)

9. "Call Me Irrestible: A Novel" by Susan Elizabeth Phillips (William Morrow)

10. "The Confession" by John Grisham (Doubleday)

11. "What the Night Knows: A Novel" by Dean Koontz (Bantam)

12. "Room: A Novel" by Emma Donoghue (Little, Brown)

13. "Freedom: A Novel" by Jonathan Franzen (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

14. "The Red Garden" by Alice Hoffman (Crown)

15. "The Weird Sisters" by Eleanor Brown (Putnam/Amy Einhom)

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. "Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption" by Laura Hillenbrand (Random House)

2. "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother" by Amy Chua (Penguin Press)

3. "The Hidden Reality" by Brian Greene (Knopf)

4. "The Next Decade" by George Friedman (Doubleday)

5. "The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommom Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman" by Timothy Ferriss (Crown Archetype)

6. "Decision Points" by George W. Bush (Crown)

7. "The Investment Answer" by Daniel C. Goldie and Gordon S. Murray (Business Plus)

8. "Cleopatra: A Life" by Stacy Schiff (Little, Brown)

9. "Sexy Forever: How to Fight Fat after Forty" by Suzanne Somers and Michael Galitzer (Crown Archetype)

10. "Autobiography of Mark Twain" by Ed. by Harriet Elinor Smith (Univ. of Calif. Press)

11. "Life" by Keith Richards (Little, Brown)

12. "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot (Crown)

13. "Neptune's Inferno" by James D. Hornfischer (Bantam)

14. "400 Calorie Fix" by Liz Vaccariello with Mindy Hermann (Rodale)

15. "Decoded" by Jay-Z (Spiegel & Grau)

MASS MARKET PAPERBACKS

1. "Marrying Daisy Bellamy" by Susan Wiggs (MIRA)

2. "Wild Man Creek" by Robyn Carr (MIRA)

3. "Here to Stay" by Catherine Anderson (Signet)

4. "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larsson (Vintage)

5. "Deliver Us From Evil" by David Baldacci (Vision)

6. "The Girl Who Played with Fire" by Stieg Larsson (Vintage)

7. "How to Woo a Reluctant Lady" by Sabrina Jeffries (Pocket Star)

8. "Swimsuit" by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro (Grand Central Publishing)

9. "Archangel's Consort" by Nalini Singh (Berkley)

10. "When Beauty Tamed the Beast" by Eloisa James (Avon)

11. "Sizzle" by Julie Garwood (Ballantine)

12. "Live To Tell: A Detective D.D. Warren Novel" by Lisa Gardner (Bantam)

13. "Broken" by Karin Slaughter (Dell)

14. "A Secret Affair" by Mary Balogh (Dell)

15. "The Lost Symbol" by Dan Brown (Anchor)

TRADE PAPERBACKS

1. "Water for Elephants: A Novel" by Sara Gruen (Algonquin)

2. "Cutting for Stone" by Abraham Verghese (Vintage)

3. "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larsson (Vintage)

4. "Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back" by Todd Burpo, Sonja Burpo, Colton Burpo and Lynn Vincent (Thomas Nelson)

5. "Winter Garden" by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin's Griffin)

6. "True Grit" by Charles Portis (Overlook)

7. "The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have" by Mark Nepo (Conari Press)

8. "Little Bee" by Chris Cleave (Simon & Schuster)

9. "The Girl Who Played with Fire" by Stieg Larsson (Vintage)

10. "The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel" by Garth Stein (Harper)

11. "Inside of a Dog" by Alexandra Horowitz (Scribner)

12. "Sarah's Key" by Tatiana de Rosnay (St. Martin's Griffin)

13. "House Rules" by Jodi Picoult (Washington Square Press)

14. "The Imperfectionists: A Novel" by Tom Rachman (The Dial Press)

15. "Just Kids" by Patti Smith (Ecco)

Comments

[LittleMs Random]

04:31 PM on 02/06/2011

I must say that I'm amazed to see the Lost Symbol still clinging to the bottom of a list. It barely sold when it came out and there were plenty of returns.

[LittleMs Random]

04:29 PM on 02/06/2011

So, Shadowfever was utterly fantastic. And I am dying to read the Weird Sisters.

[thebigbike]

12:21 AM on 02/06/2011

what?? no palin?? WHOO HOO~ I begin to have a little hope for America after all!

[David Kingman]

09:59 PM on 02/05/2011

Jukegirl, what would you have it say? Have you read all these books? I read "Cutting for Stone" and can't imagine a more inspirational up lifting read. I am just curious what a snide quip such as yours is suppoased to mean.

[Allen Schatz]

10:06 PM on 02/04/2011

Give someone else a try... visit http://bit.ly/g0sGiD for my first novel, released today in multi-format eBook versions at Smashwords.

[52tucker]

03:14 PM on 02/05/2011

Bold, my friend, and appreciated. I'll give it a try just because of the hustle. Good luck!

[Allen Schatz]

04:40 PM on 02/05/2011

Thanks!

[jukesgrrl]

07:10 PM on 02/04/2011

Wow, those lists don't say much about us as a culture, do they?

[Dharmakitri]

02:19 PM on 02/07/2011

The first thing I thought of when I read this was Edward Docx.
Did you read the Edward Docx's piece "“Are Stieg Larsson and Dan Brown a match for literary fiction?” published in the Guardian back in December? ( http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/dec/12/genre-versus-literary-fiction-edward-docx )

I found Docx piece to be repulsive. Canadian author R. Scott Bakker has a great response to this type of thinking (literary trumps genre) at his blog, The Three Pound Brain. It is a great read ( http://rsbakker.wordpress.com/2011/01/05/the-myth-of-the-vulgar-cage-ii/ )

[KalNJ]

08:48 AM on 02/04/2011

A book coming out next is is We, The Drowned by Carsten Jensen - it was one of the most enjoyable books I've ever read: http://manoflabook.com/wp/?p=1353