Top Ten in Books

Antigone Books' best-sellers for the week ending Aug. 26, 2011

1. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

Jamie Ford, Ballantine ($15)

2. The Help

Kathryn Stockett, Berkley ($16)

3. Island Beneath the Sea: A Novel

Isabel Allende, Harper ($14.99)

4. A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1

George R.R. Martin, Bantam ($8.99)

5. Raw Art Journaling

Quinn McDonald, North Light ($24.99)

6. The 12 Secrets of Highly Successful Women: A Portable Life Coach for Creative Women

Gail McMeekin, Conari ($17.95)

7. A Kite in the Wind: Fiction Writers on Their Craft

Edited by Andrea Barrett and Peter Turchi, Trinity University ($19.95)

8. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope

William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer, Harper ($14.99)

9. El Sicario: The Autobiography of a Mexican Assassin

Edited by Molly Molloy and Charles Bowden, Nation ($15.99)

10. Cutting for Stone

Abraham Verghese, Vintage ($15.95)