For those of you who keep up, you know that it’s quite difficult for a first time novelist to make it onto the New York Time’s esteemed bestsellers list amongst the authors who churn out one or two mysteries a year but our native daughter, Katherine Stockett has done just that. Not only has Stockett’s book, The Help, made it on the list, it is showing some staying power and it is still moving up on the list. Last week The Help ranked #13 on the the NYT’s list and this week it has moved up to #11!

Stay up to date on all your favorite authors’ new bestsellers below:

This Week Last Week Weeks   on List
1 THE 8TH CONFESSION, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women”s Murder Club investigate a pair of killings. 1
2 LOVER AVENGED, by J. R. Ward. (New American Library, $24.95.) A vampire ally hides his mixed blood; Book 7 of the Black Dagger Brotherhood series. 1
3 FIRST FAMILY, by David Baldacci. (Grand Central, $27.99.) Former Secret Service agents, now P.I.’s, search for a child abducted from a party at Camp David. 1 2
4 SUMMER ON BLOSSOM STREET, by Debbie Macomber. (Mira, $24.95.) More stories of life and love from a Seattle knitting class. 1
5 TEA TIME FOR THE TRADITIONALLY BUILT, by Alexander McCall Smith. (Pantheon, $23.95.) The 10th novel in the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series. 2 2
6 JUST TAKE MY HEART, by Mary Higgins Clark. (Simon & Schuster, $25.95.) An assistant prosecutor who has had a heart transplant discovers that her life is at risk. 4 4
7 LOITERING WITH INTENT, by Stuart Woods. (Putnam, $25.95.) Stone Barrington takes a case in Key West. 3 2
8 THE HOST, by Stephenie Meyer. (Little, Brown, $25.99.) Aliens have taken control of the minds and bodies of most humans, but one woman won’t surrender. 6 51
9 THE LANGUAGE OF BEES, by Laurie R. King. (Bantam, $25.) Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, help a painter search for his missing wife and child. 1
10 LOOK AGAIN, by Lisa Scottoline. (St. Martin’s, $26.95.) A reporter learns that her adopted son may have been abducted from his birth mother. 7 3
11* THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett. (Amy Einhorn/Putnam, $24.95.) A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s ­Mississippi. 13 6
12 THE PERFECT POISON, by Amanda Quick. (Putnam, $24.95.) A Victorian botanist investigates a poisoning; an Arcane Society novel. 5 2
13* LONG LOST, by Harlan Coben. (Dutton, $27.95.) Myron Bolitar helps an ex-lover search for her daughter. 9 5
14 HOME SAFE, by Elizabeth Berg. (Random House, $25.) A widow and her daughter cope with grief and discovery. 1
15 THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. (Dial, $22.) A journalist meets the island’s old Nazi resisters. 14 33
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