Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Dec. 25, 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: A Novel" by John Grisham (Doubleday) Last week: 1
2. "The Stranger in the Lifeboat: A Novel" by Mitch Albom (Harper) Last week: 3
3. "The Wish" by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central) Last week: 2
4. "The Lincoln Highway" by Amor Towles (Viking) Last week: 4
5. "Fear No Evil" by James Patterson (Little, Brown) Last week: 6
6. "Wish You Were Here: A Novel" by Jodi Picoult (Ballantine) Last week: 7
7. "Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone: A Novel (Outlander)" by Diana Gabaldon (Delacorte) Last week: 5
8. "Billy Summers" by Stephen King (Scribner) Last week: 9
9. "Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel" by Anthony Doerr (Scribner) Last week: 8
10. "The Last Thing He Told Me: A Novel" by Laura Dave (Simon & Schuster) Last week: 10
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. "Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience" by Brene Brown (Random House) Last week: 1
2. "Call Us What We Carry: Poems" by Amanda Gorman (Viking) Last week: 2
3. "The Pioneer Woman Cooks — Super Easy!: 120 Shortcut Recipes for Dinners, Desserts, and More" by Ree Drummond (Morrow) Last week: 3
4. "The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music" by Dave Grohl (Dey Street) Last week: 5
5. "Will" by Will Smith (Penguin Press) Last week: 10
6. "The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story" by Nikole Hannah-Jones (One World) Last week: 6
7. "Jesus Listens: Daily Devotional Prayers of Peace, Joy, and Hope (the NEW 365-day Prayer Book)" by Sarah Young (Thomas Nelson) Last week: 7
8. "Guinness World Records 2022" (Guinness World Records) Last week: 8
9. "All American Christmas" by Rachel Campos-Duffy and Sean Duffy (Broadside) Last week: 9
10. "The President and the Freedom Fighter: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America's Soul" by Brian Kilmeade (Sentinel) Last week: 11