Best-selling books

From Publishers Weekly

Sun., Feb. 20, 2011

Fiction

1. “Tick Tock,” James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge (Little, Brown, $27.99)

2. “A Discovery of Witches,” Deborah Harkness (Viking, $28.95)

3. “ The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest,” Stieg Larsson (Knopf, $27.95)

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

5. “Dead or Alive,” Tom Clancy with Grant Blackwood (Putnam, $28.95)

6. “The Inner Circle,” Brad Meltzer (Grand Central, $26.99)

7. “The Secret Soldier,” Alex Berenson (Putnam, $25.95)

8. “The Confession,” John Grisham (Doubleday, $28.95)

9. “Strategic Moves,” Stuart Woods (Putnam, $25.95)

10. “A Red Herring Without Mustard,” Alan Bradley (Delacorte, $23)

Nonfiction

1. “Known and Unknown,” Donald Rumsfield (Sentinel, $36)

2. “Unbroken,” Laura Hillenbrand (Random House, $27)

3. “Cleopatra,” Stacy Schiff (Little, Brown, $29.99)

4. “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,” Amy Chua (Penguin Press, $25.95)

5. “The 4-Hour Body,” Timothy Ferriss (Crown, $27)

6. “Decision Points,” George W. Bush (Crown, $35)

7. “I Beat the Odds,” Michael Oher with Don Yaeger (Gotham, $26)

8. “Veganist,” Kathy Freston (Weinstein Books, $25)

9. “The Pioneer Woman,” Ree Drummond (Morrow, $25.99)

10. “The Hidden Reality,” Brian Greene (Knopf, $29.95)

Mass-market paperback

1. “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” Stieg Larsson (Vintage, $7.99)

2. “Swimsuit,” James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (Grand Central, $9.99)

3. “The Girl Who Played with Fire,” Steig Larsson (Vintage, $7.99)

4. “Deliver Us From Evil,” David Baldacci (Vision, $9.99)

5. “Marrying Daisy Bellamy,” Susan Wiggs (Mire, $7.99)

Trade paperback

1. “Water for Elephants,” Sara Gruen (Algonquin, $14.95)

2. “Cutting for Stone,” Abraham Verghese (Vintage, $15.95)

3. “Little Bee,” Chris Cleave (Simon & Schuster, $14)

4. “Heaven Is for Real,” Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent (Thomas Nelson, $16.99)

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

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