Here are the best sellers for the week ending Saturday, Sept. 12, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide. The list is from Publishers Weekly magazine.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. The Last Song. Nicholas Sparks. Grand Central, $24.99

Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1

2. Alex Cross’s Trial. James Patterson & Richard DiLallo. Little, Brown, $27.99

Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 3

3. South of Broad. Pat Conroy. Doubleday/Nan A. Talese, $29.95

Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 5

4. The Help. Kathryn Stockett. Putnam/Amy Einhorn, $24.95

Last Week: 5; Weeks on List: 15

5. Spartan Gold. Clive Cussler. Putnam, $26.95

Last Week: 4; Weeks on List: 2

6. The White Queen. Philippa Gregory. Touchstone, $25.99

Last Week: 6; Weeks on List: 4

7. Dark Slayer. Christine Feehan. Berkley, $25.95

Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 2

8. The Girl Who Played with Fire. Stieg Larsson. Knopf, $25.95

Last Week: 9; Weeks on List: 7

9. Dead and Gone. Charlaine Harris. Ace, $25.95

Last Week: 10; Weeks on List: 19

10. Dexter by Design. Jeff Lindsay. Doubleday, $25

Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1

11. 206 Bones. Kathy Reichs. Scribner, $26.99

Last Week: 8; Weeks on List: 3

12. Homer & Langley. E.L. Doctorow. Random House, $26

Last Week: 7; Weeks on List: 2

13. The Eleventh Victim. Nancy Grace. Hyperion, $25.99

Last Week: 11; Weeks on List: 5

14. A Gate at the Stairs. Lorrie Moore. Knopf, $25.95

Last Week: 14; Weeks on List: 2

15. That Old Cape Magic. Richard Russo. Knopf, $25.95

Last Week: 13; Weeks on List: 6

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Official Book Club Selection. Kathy Griffin. Ballantine, $25

Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1

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

Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 6

3. Culture of Corruption. Michelle Malkin. Regnery, $27.95

Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 7

4. Outliers. Malcolm Gladwell. Little, Brown, $27.99

Last Week: 4; Weeks on List: 42

5. Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man. Steve Harvey. Amistad, $23.99

Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 33

6. The Conversation. Hill Harper. Gotham, $22.50

Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1

7. In the President’s Secret Service. Ronald Kessler. Crown, $26

Last Week: 5; Weeks on List: 6

8. The Last Lecture. Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow. Hyperion, $21.95

Last Week: 9; Weeks on List: 74

9. The 50th Law. 50 Cent & Robert Greene. HarperStudio, $19.99

Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1

10. Liberty and Tyranny. Mark R. Levin. Threshold Editions, $25

Last Week: 7; Weeks on List: 25

11. Strength in What Remains. Tracy Kidder. Random House, $26

Last Week: 6; Weeks on List: 2

12. Born to Run. Christopher McDougall. Knopf, $24.95

Last Week: 8; Weeks on List: 4

13. A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity. Bill O’Reilly. Broadway, $26

Last Week: 10; Weeks on List: 26

14. Half the Sky. Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn. Knopf, $27.95

Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1

15. Traveling with Pomegranates. Sue Monk Kidd &Ann Kidd Taylor. Viking, $25.95

Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1

MASS MARKET

1. Scarpetta. Patricia Cornwell. Berkley, $9.99

Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 3

2. 92 Pacific Boulevard. Debbie Macomber. Mira, $7.99

Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 3

3. Divine Justice. David Baldacci. Vision, $9.99

Last Week: 4; Weeks on List: 3

4. Extreme Measures. Vince Flynn. Pocket, $9.99

Last Week: 5; Weeks on List: 3

5. The Brass Verdict. Michael Connelly. Grand Central, $9.99

Last Week: 8; Weeks on List: 4

6. From Dead to Worse. Charlaine Harris. Ace, $7.99

Last Week: 10; Weeks on List: 22

7. Hunting Ground. Patricia Briggs. Ace, $7.99

Last Week: 6; Weeks on List: 3

8. Dead Until Dark. Charlaine Harris. Ace, $7.99

Last Week: 11; Weeks on List: 37

9. Storm of Shadows. Christina Dodd. Signet, $7.99

Last Week: 7; Weeks on List: 2

10. A Good Woman. Danielle Steel. Dell, $7.99

Last Week: 13; Weeks on List: 2

11. Shutter Island. Dennis Lehane. Harper, $7.99

Last Week: 14; Weeks on List: 2

12. The Quickie. James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge. Vision, $7.99

Last Week: 15; Weeks on List: 7

13. Dead to the World. Charlaine Harris. Ace, $7.99

Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 8

14. Club Dead. Charlaine Harris. Ace, $7.99

Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 13

15. Heat Seeker. Lora Leigh. St. Martin’s, $7.99

Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 2

TRADE

1. The Time Traveler’s Wife. Audrey Niffenegger. Mariner Books, $14.95

Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 62

2. The Shack. William P. Young. Windblown Media, $14. 99

Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 75

3. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Stieg Larsson. Vintage, $14.95

Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 12

4. Glenn Beck’s Common Sense. Glenn Beck. Threshold Editions, $11.99

Last Week: 5; Weeks on List: 13

5. My Life in France. Julia Child with Alex Prud’homme. Anchor, $15

Last Week: 4; Weeks on List: 6

6. Olive Kitteridge. Elizabeth Strout. Random House, $14

Last Week: 9; Weeks on List: 18

7. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Mary Ann Shafferand Annie Barrows. Dial, $14

Last Week: 11; Weeks on List: 19

8. The Lucky One. Nicholas Sparks. Grand Central, $13.99

Last Week: 7; Weeks on List: 5

9. Three Cups of Tea. Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin. Penguin, $15

Last Week: 8; Weeks on List: 106

10. Julie and Julia. Julie Powell. L,B/Back Bay, $14.99

Last Week: 10; Weeks on List: 11

11. The Weight of Silence. Heather Gudenkauf. Mira, $13.95

Last Week: 6; Weeks on List: 7

12. The Art of Racing in the Rain. Garth Stein. Harper, $14.99

Last Week: 12; Weeks on List: 14

13. The Glass Castle. Jeannette Walls. Scribner, $15

Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 73

14. Home. Marilynne Robinson. Picador, $14

Last Week: 15; Weeks on List: 2

15. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Jane Austen & Seth Grahame-Smith. Quirk, $12.95

Last Week: 13; Weeks on List: 22