Dan Brown's 'The Lost Symbol' released in paperback

It’s Sunday, so that means that it’s time for my weekly review of this week’s Publishers Weekly Best-Seller List. According to the list, we’ve got two new books at the top of the four major best-seller lists this week.

“Worth Dying For” by Lee Child replaced “American Assassin” by Vince Flynn as the No. 1 book on the hardcover fiction list.

“The Lost Symbol” by Dan Brown replaced “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” by Stieg Larsson as the top book on the mass market paperbacks list.

“The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents Earth: A Visitor’s Guide to the Human Race” by Jon Stewart retained the No. 1 spot this week on the hardcover nonfiction list.

“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” retained the top spot this week on the trade paperbacks list.

There are five books on this week’s hardcover fiction best seller list that weren’t on that list last week. Those books (and their positions on this week’s list) include “Worth Dying For” by Lee Child (1), “In the Company of Others” by Jan Karon (3), “The Twelfth Imam” by Joel C. Rosenberg (8), “Chasing the Night” by Iris Johansen (14) and “The Templar Salvation” by Raymond Khoury (15).

There are five books on this week’s hardcover nonfiction best seller list that weren’t on that list last week. Those books are “Autobiography of Mark Twain,” edited by Harriet Smith (3), “Sh*t My Dad Says” by Justin Halpern (11), “Delivering Happiness” by Tony Hsieh (13), Bobby Flay’s Throwdown by Bobby Flay with Stephanie Banyas and Miriam Garron (14) and “Oogy” by Larry Levin (15).

There are three books on this week’s mass market paperbacks list that weren’t on the list last week. Those books are “The Lost Symbol” by Dan Brown (1), “Blood Trinity” by Sherrilyn Kenyon (9) and “O’Hurley Born” by Nora Roberts (15).

There is one book on this week’s trade paperbacks list that wasn’t on that list last week – “The Finkler Question” by Howard Jacobson, which was No. 14 on this week’s list.

Below you’ll find all four of this week’s best-seller lists. As a reminder, I’m posting these lists each Sunday because they, as a whole, represent a great, contemporary recommended reading list. They are initially released each week on Thursday, and if you’re interested in reading them then, visit Publishers Weekly’s Web site at www.publishersweekly.com.

HARDCOVER FICTION
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 Nornet'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: A Modest Bestiary" by David Sedaris
10. "Don't Blink" by James Patterson and 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

HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents Earth: A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race" by Jon Stewart
2. "Trickle Up Poverty" by Michael Savage
3. "Autobiography of Mark Twain" by Ed. by Harriet Elinor Smith
4. "The Last Boy" by Jane Leavy
5. "Pinheads and Patriots: Where You Stand in the Age of Obama" by Bill O'Reilly
6. "At Home" by Bill Bryson
7. "Extraordinary, Ordinary People" by Condoleezza Rice
8. "A--holes Finish First" by Tucker Max
9. "Obama's Wars" by Bob Woodward
10. "Washington" by Ron Chernow
11. "Sh t My Dad Says" by Justin Halpern
12. "The Grand Design" by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
13. "Delivering Happiness" by Tony Hsieh
14. "Bobby Flay's Throwdown" by Bobby Flay with Stephanie Banyas & Miriam Garron
15. "Oogy" by Larry Levin

MASS MARKET PAPERBACKS
1. "The Lost Symbol" by Dan Brown
2. "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larsson
3. "The Girl Who Played with Fire" by Stieg Larsson
4. "61 Hours: A Reacher Novel" by Lee Child
5. "I, Alex Cross" by James Patterson
6. "Play Dead" by Harlen Coben
7. "Pirate Latitudes" by Michael Crichton
8. "Rough Country" by John Sandford
9. "Blood Trinity" by Sherrilyn Kenyon & Dianna Love
10. "Crave" by J.R. Ward
11. "Gathering Storm" by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
12. "Ford County: Stories" by John Grisham
13. "True Blue" by David Baldacci
14. "Styx's Storm" by Lora Leigh
15. "O'Hurley Born" by Nora Roberts

TRADE PAPERBACKS
1. "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larsson
2. "The Girl Who Played with Fire" by Stieg Larsson
3. "Little Bee" by Chris Cleave
4. "Eat, Pray, Love" by Elizabeth Gilbert
5. "Cutting for Stone" by Abraham Verghese
6. "Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel" by Jeannette Walls
7. "The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel" by Garth Stein
8. "Sarah's Key" by Tatiana de Rosnay
9. "Unlocked" by Karen Kingsbury
10. "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
11. "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho
12. "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
13. "Worst Case" by James Patterson
14. "The Finkler Question" by Howard Jacobson
15. "Three Cups of Tea" by Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin

In the end, let me know if you’ve had a chance to read any of these books. What did you think about them? Which would you recommend? Let us know in the comments section below.