Best-selling books

From Publishers Weekly

Sun., Aug. 30, 2009

1. “South of Broad,” Pat Conroy (Doubleday/Nan A. Talese, $29.95)

2. “The White Queen,” Philippa Gregory (Touchstone, $25.99)

3. “Dreamfever,” Karen Marie Moning (Delacorte, $26)

4. “The Help,” Kathryn Stockett (Putnam/Amy Einhorn, $24.95)

5. “That Old Cape Magic,” Richard Russo (Knopf, $25.95)

6. “Star Wars (Fate of the Jedi): Abyss,” Troy Denning (Del Rey, $27)

7. “The Girl Who Played with Fire,” Stieg Larsson (Knopf, $25.95)

8. “The Eleventh Victim,” Nancy Grace (Hyperion, $25.99)

9. “Smash Cut,” Sandra Brown (Simon and Schuster $26.99)

10. “The Law of Nines,” Terry Goodkind (Putnam, $27.95)

1. “Culture of Corruption,” Michelle Malkin (Regnery, $27.95)

2. “Mastering the Art of French Cooking,” Julia Child et al. (Knopf, $40)

3. “In the President’s Secret Service,” Ronald Kessler (Crown, $26)

4. “Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man,” Steve Harvey (Amistad, $23.99)

5. “Outliers,” Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown, $27.99)

6. “Flat Belly Diet! Cookbook,” Liz Vaccariello with Cynthia Sass (Rodale, $27.99)

7. “Born to Run,” Christopher McDougall (Knopf, $24.95)

8. “Liberty and Tyranny,” Mark R. Levin (Threshold Editions, $25)

9. “Catastrophe,” Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Harper, $26)

10. “Zeitoun,” Dave Eggers (McSweeney’s, $24)

1. “ The Brass Verdict,” Michael Connelly (Grand Central, $9.99)

2. “The Quickie,” James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge (Vision, $7.99)

3. “ Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein: Dead and Alive,” Dean Koontz (Bantam, $9.99)

3. “ My Life in France,” Julia Child with Alex Prud’homme (Anchor, $7.99)

5. “ From Dead to Worse,” Charlaine Harris (Ace, $7.99)

1. “The Time Traveler’s Wife,” Audrey Niffenegger (Mariner, $14.95)

2. “The Shack,” William P. Young (Windblown Media, $14.99)

3. “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” Stieg Larsson (Vintage, $14.95)

4. “Glenn Beck’s Common Sense,” Glenn Beck (Threshold Editions, $11.99)

5. “The Weight of Silence,” Heather Gudenkauf (Mira, $13.95)