The Drop climbed to the top of the Publishers Weekly best-sellers list on Thursday.

The list is compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide.

Hardcover Fiction Last Week

1. The Drop by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown, $27.99) -

2. 11/22/63 by Stephen King (Scribner, $35) 2

3. Explosive Eighteen by Janet Evanovich (Bantam, $28) 1

4. The Litigators by John Grisham (Doubleday, $28.95) 3

5. Kill Alex Cross by James Patterson (Little, Brown, $28.99) 4

6. V Is for Vengeance by Sue Grafton (Putnam, $27.95) 5

7. The Best of Me by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central, $25.99) 7

8. Micro by Michael Crichton & Richard Preston (Harper, $28.99) 6

9. The Scottish Prisoner by Diana Gabaldon (Delacorte, $28) -

10. Zero Day by David Baldacci (Grand Central, $27.99) 8

Hardcover nonfiction

1. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster, $35) 1

2. Killing Lincoln by Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard (Holt, $28) 2

3. Being George Washington by Glenn Beck (Threshold, $26) 3

4. Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand (Random House, $27) 4

5. Go the F**k to Sleep by Adam Mansbach, illus. by Ricardo Cortés (Akashic, $14.95) 8

6. Guinness World Records 2012 (Guinness World Records, $28.95) 6

7. Jack Kennedy by Chris Matthews (Simon & Schuster, $27.50) 5

8. Throw Them All Out by Peter Schweizer (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26) 7

9. Catherine the Great by Robert K. Massie (Random House, $35) 17

10. Harry Potter Page to Screen by Bob McCabe (Harper Design, $75) 18

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