Best-sellers for week of Sept. 3
Here are the week's best-sellers from Publishers Weekly. You can find reviews of many of these books here at The Book Nook, including "The Girl Who Played With Fire" and "That Old Cape Magic." Look for reviews of "Dreamfever" and "The White Queen" to come soon.
HARDCOVER FICTION
1. "Alex Cross's Trial" by James Patterson, Richard DiLallo (Little, Brown)
2. "South of Broad" by Pat Conroy (Nan A. Talese)
3. "The White Queen" by Philippa Gregory (Touchstone)
4. "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett (Putnam/Amy Einhorn)
5. "206 Bones: A Novel" by Kathy Reichs (Scribner)
6. "The Girl Who Played With Fire" by Stieg Larsson (Knopf)
7. "That Old Cape Magic: A Novel" by Richard Russo (Knopf)
8. "The Eleventh Victim" by Nancy Grace (Hyperion)
9. "Dead and Gone" by Charlaine Harris (Ace)
10. "Even Money" by Dick Francis, Felix Francis (Putnam Adult)
11. "Smash Cut" by Sandra Brown (Simon & Schuster)
12. "Dreamfever" by Karen Marie Moning (Dell)
13. "Star Wars: Fate Of The Jedi: Abyss" by Troy Denning (Del Rey)
14. "Best Friends Forever" by Jennifer Weiner (Atria)
15. "Resurrecting Midnight: by Eric Jerome Dickey (Dutton)
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. "Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume I" by Julia Child, Simone Beck, Louisette Bertholle (Knopf)
2. "Culture of Corruption: Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies" by Michelle Malkin (Regnery Publishing)
3. "Outliers: The Story of Success" by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown)
4. "In the President's Secret Service: Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect" by Ronald Kessler (Crown)
5. "Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment" by Steve Harvey (Amistad)
6. "Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto" by Mark R. Levin (Threshold Editions)
7. "Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen" by Christopher McDougall (Knopf)
8. "The Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow (Hyperion)
9. "Catastrophe" by Dick Morris, Eileen McGann (Harper)
10. "A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog" by Dean Koontz (Hyperion)
11. "Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care" by T.R. Reid (The Penguin Press)
12. "A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity" by Bill O'Reilly (Broadway)
13. "Debbie Macomber s Cedar Cove Cookbook" by Debbie Macomber (Harlequin)
14. "Master Your Metabolism: The 3 Diet Secrets to Naturally Balancing Your Hormones for a Hot and Healthy Body!" by Jillian Michaels and Mariska van Aalst (Crown)
15. "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers (McSweeney's)
MASS MARKET PAPERBACKS
1. "92 Pacific Boulevard: A Cedar Cove Novel" by Debbie Macomber (Mira)
2. "Hunting Ground" by Patricia Briggs (Ace)
3. "The Brass Verdict" by Michael Connelly (Grand Central)
4. "Scarpetta" by Patricia Cornwell (Berkley)
5. "Obsidian Prey" by Jayne Castle (Jove)
6. "Extreme Measures" by Vince Flynn (Pocket)
7. "Divine Justice" by David Baldacci (Vision)
8. "The Darkest Whisper" by Gena Showalter (HQN)
9. "Dead Until Dark" by Charlaine Harris (Ace)
10. "From Dead to Worse" by Charlaine Harris (Ace)
11. "The Bodies Left Behind" by Jeffery Deaver (Pocket Star)
12. "The Quickie" by James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge (Vision)
13. "Pleasure: The Shadowdwellers" by Jacquelyn Frank (Zebra)
14. "Dean Koontz's Frankenstein: Dead and Alive" by Dean Koontz (Bantam)
15. "Club Dead" by Charlaine Harris (Ace)
TRADE PAPERBACKS
1. "The Time Traveler's Wife" by Audrey Niffenegger (Mariner Books)
2. "The Shack" by William P. Young (Windblown Media)
3. "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larsson (Vintage)
4. "The Weight of Silence" by Heather Gudenkauf (Mira)
5. "Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine" by Glenn Beck (Threshold Editions)
6. "My Life in France" by Julia Child, Alex Prud'Homme, (Anchor)
7. "The Lucky One" by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing)
8. "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (Dial)
9. "Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously" by Julie Powell (Back Bay Books)
10. "Olive Kitteredge" by Elizabeth Strout (Random House Trade Paperbacks)
11. "Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time" by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (Penguin)
12. "The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel" by Garth Stein (Harper)
13. "Freakonomics" by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner (William Morrow)
14. "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" by Jane Austin and Seth Grahame-Smith (Quirk Books)
15. "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho (Harper)
