Bestsellers: 'Hornet's Nest' is abuzz again

January 13, 2011

A list of national bestsellers compiled by Publishers Weekly for the week ending Jan. 16.

1. THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET'S NEST, by Stieg Larsson (Knopf)

2. WHAT THE NIGHT KNOWS, by Dean Koontz (Bantam)

3. DEAD OR ALIVE, by Tom Clancy with Grant Blackwood (Putnam)

4. THE CONFESSION, by John Grisham (Doubleday)

5. THE OUTLAWS, by W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV (Putnam)

6. THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett (Putnam/Amy Einhorn)

7. CROSS FIRE, by James Patterson (Little, Brown)

8. FREEDOM, by Jonathan Franzen (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

9. SECRETS TO THE GRAVE, by Tami Hoag (Dutton)

10. THREE SECONDS, by Anders Roslund and Borge Hellström (Silver Oak)

2. DECISION POINTS, by George W. Bush (Crown)

3. THE 7, by Glenn Beck and Keith Ablow, M.D. (Threshold)

4. THE 4-HOUR BODY, by Timothy Ferriss (Crown)

5. CLEOPATRA, by Stacy Schiff (Little, Brown)

6. CINCH, by Cynthia Sass (HarperOne)

7. LIFE, by Keith Richards (Little, Brown)

8. STRAIGHT TALK, NO CHASER, by Steve Harvey (Amistad)

9. CHANGE THE CULTURE, CHANGE THE GAME, by Roger Connors and Tom Smith (Portfolio)

10. AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARK TWAIN, edited by Harriet Elinor Smith (University of California Press)

1. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, by Stieg Larsson (Vintage)

2. THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE, by Stieg Larsson (Vintage)

3. CUTTING FOR STONE, by Abraham Verghese (Vintage)

4. HOUSE RULES, by Jodi Picoult (Washington Square Press)

5. WATER FOR ELEPHANTS, by Sara Gruen (Algonquin)

7. LITTLE BEE, by Chris Cleave (Simon & Schuster)

8. THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN, by Garth Stein (Harper)

9. INSIDE OF A DOG, by Alexandra Horowitz (Scribner)

10. TRUE GRIT, by Charles Portis (Overlook)

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