Best-sellers: Patterson on top again

Publishers Weekly best-sellers list for the week of Feb. 21

Fiction

1. “Tick Tock” by James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge (Little, Brown)

2. “A Discovery of Witches” by Deborah Harkness (Viking)

3. “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest” by Stieg Larsson (Knopf)

4. “The Help” by Kathryn Stockett (Putnam/Amy Einhorn)

5. “Dead or Alive” by Tom Clancy and Grant Blackwood (Putnam Adult)

6. “The Inner Circle” by Brad Meltzer (Grand Central Publishing)

7. “The Secret Soldier” by Alex Berenson (Putnam)

8. “The Confession” by John Grisham (Doubleday)

9. “Strategic Moves” by Stuart Woods (Putnam Adult)

10. “A Red Herring Without Mustart” by Alan Bradley (Delacorte)

Nonfiction

1. “Known and Unknown” by Donald Rumsfeld (Sentinel)

2. “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption” by Laura Hillenbrand (Random House)

3. “Cleopatra: A Life” by Stacy Schiff (Little, Brown)

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

5. “The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommom Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman” by Timothy Ferriss (Crown Archetype)

6. “Decision Points” by George W. Bush (Crown)

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

8. “Veganist” by Kathy Freston (Weinstein Books)

9. “The Pioneer Woman” by Ree Drummond (Morrow)

10. “The Hidden Reality” by Brian Greene (Knopf)