Dan Brown's "Inferno" stands proud on the top spot of Publisher Weekly's bestseller list for yet another week.

Dan Brown's "Inferno" lost its number one position to "Second Honeymoon" by James Patterson last week but has returned to claim the spot again this week. James Patterson's novel dropped to the second spot and Khaled Hosseini's "And the Mountains Echoed" came in at number three. Laurell K. Hamilton's "Affliction" was the only new entry to the list this week and was placed in the fourth position. The rest of the hardcover fiction bestsellers reads:

1. "Inferno" by Dan Brown (Doubleday Books, $29.95) - Last week: 2

2. "Second Honeymoon" by James Patterson and Howard Roughan (Little Brown and Company, $28.00) - Last week: 1

3. "And the Mountains Echoed" by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead Books, $28.95) - Last week: 3

4. "Affliction" by Laurell K. Hamilton (Berkley Publishing Group, $28.95) - Last week: NA

5. "The Heist" by Janet Evanovich and Goldberg Lee (Bantam, $28.00) - Last week: 4

6. "Bad Monkey" by Carl Hiaasen (Knopf Publishing Group, $26.95) - Last week: 8

7. "The Ocean at the End of the Lane" by Neil Gaiman (William Morrow & Company, $25.99) - Last week: 5

8. "Beautiful Day" by Elin Hilderbrand (Reagan Arthur Books, $28.00) - Last week: 6

9. "The Eye of God: A SIGMA Force Novel" by James Rollins (William Morrow & Company, $27.99) - Last week: 7

10. "The Silver Star" by Jeannette Walls (Scribner Book Company, $26.00)  - Last week: 9