The Week's Hottest Reads: Publishers Weekly Bestsellers
-- HARDCOVER FICTION
1. "The Drop" by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown)
2. "11/22/63" by Stephen King (Scribner)
3. "Explosive Eighteen" by Janet Evanovich (Bantam)
4. "The Litigators" by John Grisham (Doubleday)
5. "Kill Alex Cross" by James Patterson (Little, Brown)
6. "V Is for Vengeance" by Sue Grafton (Marian Wood)
7. "The Best of Me" by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing)
8. "Micro: A Novel" by Michael Crichton and Richard Preston (Harper)
9. "The Scottish Prisoner: A Novel" by Diana Gabaldon (Delacorte Press)
10. "Zero Day" by David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing)
11. "Devil's Gate" by Clive Cussler and Graham Brown (Putnam Adult)
12. "IQ84" by Haruki Murakami (Knopf)
13. "A Dance with Dragons" by George R.R. Martin (Bantam)
14. "The Christmas Wedding" by James Patterson, Richard DiLallo (Little, Brown)
15. "The Marriage Plot: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux)
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. "Steve Jobs: A Biography" by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster)
2. "Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard (Henry Holt and Co.)
3. "Being George Washington: The Indispensable Man, As You've Never Seen Him" by Glenn Beck (Threshold Editions)
4. "Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption" by Laura Hillenbrand (Random House)
5. "Go the F--k to Sleep" by Adam Mansbach (Akashic)
6. "Guinness World Records 2012" (Guinness World Records)
7. "Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero" by Chris Matthews (Simon & Schuster)
8. "Throw Them All Out" by Peter Schweizer (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
9. "Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman" by Robert K. Massie (Random House)
10. "Harry Potter Page to Screen: The Complete Filmaking Journey" by Bob McCabe (Harper Design)
11. "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman (Ferrar, Straus & Giroux)
12. "Back to Work" by Bill Clinton (Knopf)
13. "Nearing Home" by Billy Graham (Thomas Nelson)
14. "Imperfect Justice: Prosecuting Casey Anthony" by Jeff Ashton and Lisa Pulitzer (Morrow)
15. "Then Again" by Diane Keaton (Random House)
MASS MARKET PAPERBACKS
1. "Smokin' Seventeen" by Janet Evanovich (Bantam)
2. "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larsson (Vintage)
3. "Toys" by James Patterson and Neil McMahon (Vision)
4. "Learning to Love: Sugar/Love by Degree" by Debbie Macomber (Mira)
5. "The Land of Painted Caves" by Jean M. Auel (Bantam)
6. "Quinn" by Iris Johansen (St. Martin's Paperbacks)
7. "The Girl Who Played with Fire" by Stieg Larsson (Vintage)
8. "Don't Look Behind You: Ann Rule's Crime Files 15" by Ann Rule (Pocket Books)
9. "True Blue" by Diana Palmer (Harlequin)
10. "The Perfect Christmas" by Debbie Macomber (Mira)
11. "One for the Money" by Janet Evanovich (St. Martin's Paperbacks)
12. "Cross Fire" by James Patterson (Vision)
13. "Fate's Edge" by Ilona Andrews (Ace)
14. "Crescent Dawn" by Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler (Berkley)
15. "Gabriella & Alexander" by Nora Roberts (Silhouette)
TRADE PAPERBACKS
1. "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett (Putnam Adult)
2. "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)
3. "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larsson (Vintage)
4. "The Next Always" by Nora Roberts (Berkley)
5. "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot (Broadway)
6. "The Next Always" by Nora Roberts (Berkley)
7. "The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel" by Garth Stein (Harper)
8. "Unlikely Friendships: 47 Remarkable Stories from the Animal Kingdom" by Jennifer S. Holland (Workman)
9. "The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead" by Max Brooks (Three Rivers)
10. "Sing You Home" by Jodi Picoult (Atria/Emily Bestler Books)
11. "Sarah's Key" by Tatiana de Rosnay (St. Martin's Griffin)
12. "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell (LB/Back Bay)
13. "Cutting for Stone" by Abraham Verghese (Vintage)
14. "Moneyball" by Michael Lewis (Norton)
15. "The Girl Who Played with Fire" by Stieg Larsson (Vintage)




By The Associated Press 12/ 8/11 05:18 PM ET Associated Press