Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Dec. 18, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by NPD BookScan © 2021 NPD Group.
(Reprinted from Publishers Weekly, published by PWxyz LLC. © 2021, PWxyz LLC.)
HARDCOVER FICTION
1. The Judge’s List. John Grisham. Doubleday
2. The Wish. Nicholas Sparks. Grand Central
3. The Stranger in the Lifeboat. Mitch Albom. Harper
4. The Lincoln Highway. Amor Towles. Viking
5. Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone. Diana Gabaldon. Delacorte
6. Fear No Evil. James Patterson. Little, Brown
7. Wish You Were Here. Jodi Picoult. Ballantine
8. Cloud Cuckoo Land. Anthony Doerr. Scribner
9. Billy Summers. Stephen King. Scribner
10. The Last Thing He Told Me. Laura Dave. Simon & Schuster
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Atlas of the Heart. Brené Brown. Random House
2. Call Us What We Carry. Amanda Gorman. Viking
3. The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Super Easy! Ree Drummond. Morrow
4. The Real Anthony Fauci. Robert F. Kennedy. Skyhorse
5. The Storyteller. Dave Grohl. Dey Street
6. The 1619 Project. Nikole Hannah-Jones. One World
7. Jesus Listens. Sarah Young. Thomas Nelson
8. Guinness World Records 2022. Guinness World Records
9. All American Christmas. Campos-Duffy/Duffy. Broadside
10. Will. Will Smith. Penguin Press
MASS MARKET
1. Neighbors. Danielle Steel. Dell
2. Lost. Patterson/Born. Grand Central
3. Thick as Thieves. Sandra Brown. Grand Central
4. The Rescue. Nicholas Sparks. Grand Central
5. Winter Weddings. Debbie Macomber. Mira
6. All That Glitters. Danielle Steel. Dell
7. Texarkana. Johnstone/Johnstone. Pinnacle
8. Slaughter of the Mountain Man. Johnstone/Johnstone. Pinnacle
9. Little Lies. Nora Roberts. Silhouette
10. Snowfall in Cold Creek. RaeAnne Thayne. Harlequin
TRADE PAPERBACK
1. Heaven Official’s Blessing. Mo Xiang Tong Xiu. Seven Seas
2. Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation. Mo Xiang Tong Xiu. Seven Seas
3. Verity. Colleen Hoover. Grand Central
4. Where the Crawdads Sing. Delia Owens. Putnam
5. The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System. Mo Xiang Tong Xiu. Seven Seas
6. The Love Hypothesis. Ali Hazelwood. Berkley
7. People We Meet on Vacation. Emily Henry. Berkley
8. The Ultimate Bathroom Reader. Bill O’Neill. LAK
9. The Silent Patient. Alex Michaelides. Celadon
10. The Old Farmer’s Almanac 2022. Old Farmer’s Almanac
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