Best-selling books

From Publishers Weekly

Sun., Jan. 30, 2011

Fiction

1. “Shadowfever,” Karen Marie Moning (Delacorte, $26)

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

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

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

5. “The Sentry,” Robert Crais (Putnam, $26.95)

6. “Call Me Irresistible,” Susan Elizabeth Phillips (Morrow, $25.99)

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

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

9. “What the Night Knows,” Dean Koontz (Bantam, $28)

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

Nonfiction

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

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

3. “Sexy Forever,” Suzanne Somers (Crown, $25.99)

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

5. “ The 7: Seven Wonders That Will Change Your Life,” Glenn Beck and Keith Ablow, M.D. (Threshold, $24.99)

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

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

8. “The Investment Answer,” Daniel C. Goldie and Gordon S. Murray (Business Plus, $18)

9. “Life,” Keith Richards (Little, Brown, $29.99)

10. “The Carb Lovers Diet,” Ellen Kunes and Frances Largeman-Roth (Oxmoor House, $24.95)

Mass-market paperback

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

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

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

4. “How to Woo a Reluctant Lady,” Sabrina Jeffries (Pocket Star, $7.99)

5. “The Lost Symbol,” Dan Brown (Anchor, $9.99)

Trade paperback

1. “True Grit,” Charles Portis (Overlook, $14.95)

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

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

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

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

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