Hardcover

Fiction
1	THE HELP (Amy Einhorn, $24.95) By Kathryn Stockett. A frank chronicle of the lives of several black maids working in a town in 1960s Miss.	26
2	THE LOST SYMBOL (Doubleday, $29.95) By Dan Brown. Masonic lore figures prominently in this sequel to "The Da Vinci Code"; set in D.C.	18
3	THE SWAN THIEVES (Little, Brown, $26.99) By Elizabeth Kostova. A bizarre attack on a canvas in the National Gallery of Art opens this tale of obsession.	1
4	THE FIRST RULE (Putnam, $26.95) By Robert Crais. Joe Pike's second turn as a PI features the murders of a former mercenary and his family.	1
5	NOAH'S COMPASS (Knopf, $25.95) By Anne Tyler. A home assault is the catalyst for a retired teacher to seek change in his unremarkable life.	2
6	U IS FOR UNDERTOW (Putnam, $27.95) By Sue Grafton. Millhone agrees to help a young man with suspect memories of a decades-old kidnapping.	7
7	I, ALEX CROSS (Little, Brown, $27.99) By James Patterson. A relative's murder leads Cross and his girlfriend on the hunt for a vicious killer.	9
8	PIRATE LATITUDES (Harper, $27.99) By Michael Crichton. A daring pirate captain plots to commandeer a Spanish galleon laden with treasure.	8
9	DEEPER THAN THE DEAD (Dutton, $26.95) By Tami Hoag. A serial killer preying on a California community tests the FBI's new profiling technique.	3
10	REMARKABLE CREATURES (Dutton, $26.95) By Tracy Chevalier. The discovery of unusual fossils challenges Victorian notions of faith and science.	1
Nonfiction/General
1	GAME CHANGE: OBAMA AND THE CLINTONS, MCCAIN AND PALIN, AND THE RACE OF A LIFETIME (Harper, $27.99). By John Heilemann & Mark Halperin	1
2	COMMITTED: A SKEPTIC MAKES PEACE WITH MARRIAGE (Viking, $26.95). By Elizabeth Gilbert Picking up where "Eat, Pray, Love" left off.	2
3	STONES INTO SCHOOLS: PROMOTING PEACE WITH BOOKS, NOT BOMBS, IN AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN (Viking, $26.95). By Greg Mortenson	7
4	GOING ROGUE: AN AMERICAN LIFE (Harper, $28.99). By Sarah Palin. The rising conservative political star tells her side of the story.	8
5	THE MAYO CLINIC DIET: EAT WELL. ENJOY LIFE. LOSE WEIGHT. (Good Books, $25.99). The renowned nutrition and health experts counsel moderation.	2
6	FULL THROTTLE: 122 STRATEGIES TO SUPERCHARGE YOUR PERFORMANCE AT WORK (John Wiley, $22.95). By Gregg M. Steinberg	1
7	HAVE A LITTLE FAITH: A TRUE STORY (Hyperion, $23.99). By Mitch Albom. Faith at work in both a Jewish and a Christian congregation.	16
8	DRIVE: THE SURPRISING TRUTH ABOUT WHAT MOTIVATES US (Riverhead, $26.95) By Daniel H. Pink. A look by the New Economy expert.	2
9	WHAT THE DOG SAW: AND OTHER ADVENTURES (Little, Brown, $27.99). By Malcolm Gladwell A selection of writings from the New Yorker magazine.	13
10	SUPERFREAKONOMICS: GLOBAL COOLING, PATRIOTIC PROSTITUTES . . . (Morrow, $29.99) By Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner	12

Rankings reflect sales for the week ended Jan. 17, 2010. The charts may not be reproduced without permission from Nielsen BookScan. Copyright © 2010 by Nielsen BookScan. (The right-hand column of numbers represents weeks on this list, which premiered in Book World on Jan. 11, 2004. The bestseller lists in print alternate between hardcover and paperback.)