Best-sellers from Publishers Weekly

By McClatchy-Tribune News Service

Here is the best-selling fiction for the week ending Saturday, Oct. 23, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide.

1. “Worth Dying For,” by Lee Child

2. “American Assassin,” by Vince Flynn

3. “In the Company of Others,” by Jan Karon

4. “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest,” by Stieg Larsson

5. “Fall of Giants,” by Ken Follett

6. “Safe Haven,” by Nicholas Sparks

7. “The Reversal,” by Michael Connelly

8. “The Twelfth Imam,” by Joel C. Rosenberg

9. “Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk,” by David Sedaris

10. “Don’t Blink,” by James Patterson & Howard Roughan

11. “Freedom,” by Jonathan Franzen

12. “The Help,” by Kathryn Stockett

13. “Our Kind of Traitor,” by John le Carre

14. “Chasing the Night,” by Iris Johansen

15. “The Templar Salvation,” by Raymond Khoury