Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Aug. 22, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by NPD BookScan (c) 2020 NPD Group.
(Reprinted from Publishers Weekly, published by PWxyz LLC. (c) 2020, PWxyz LLC.)
HARDCOVER FICTION
1. Royal. Danielle Steel. Delacorte
2. The Vanishing Half. Brit Bennett. Riverhead
3. 1st Case. Patterson/Tebbetts. Little, Brown
4. The Guest List. Lucy Foley. Morrow
5. The Jackal. J.R. Ward. Gallery
6. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse. Charlie Mackesy. HarperOne
7. 28 Summers. Elin Hilderbrand. Little, Brown
8. The Order. Daniel Silva. Harper
9. Near Dark. Brad Thor. Atria
10. American Dirt. Jeanine Cummins. Flatiron
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Live Free or Die. Sean Hannity. Threshold
2. Untamed. Glennon Doyle. Dial
3. Caste. Isabel Wilkerson. Random House
4. Too Much and Never Enough. Mary L. Trump. Simon & Schuster
5. Live in Love. Lauren Akins. Ballantine
6. Lose Weight Like Crazy Even If You Have a Crazy Life! Autumn Calabrese. Galvanized Media
7. Blitz. David Horowitz. Humanix
8. Return from Siberia. John Shallman. Skyhorse
9. Doesn't Hurt to Ask. Trey Gowdy. Crown Forum
10. The Answer Is... Alex Trebek. Simon & Schuster
MASS MARKET
1. Outfox. Sandra Brown. Grand Central
2. Child's Play. Danielle Steel. Dell
3. The Last Odyssey. James Rollins. Morrow
4. Paranoid. Lisa Jackson. Zebra
5. Golden in Death. J.D. Robb. St. Martin's
6. The Cowboy's Lady. Debbie Macomber. Harlequin
7. The Guardians. John Grisham. Dell
8. Heart of Gold. B.J. Daniels. HQN
9. Redemption. David Baldacci. Grand Central
10. Finding You Again. Debbie Macomber. Mira
TRADE PAPERBACK
1. Publication Manual of the APA (7th ed.). APA
2. The Midwife Murders. Patterson/DiLallo. Grand Central
3. The Distance Learning Playbook (Grades K-12). Fisher/Frey/Hattie. Corwin
4. So You Want to Talk About Race. Ijeoma Oluo. Seal
5. The New Jim Crow. Michelle Alexander. New Press
6. Critical Role: Vox Machina Origins Vol. II. Matthew Mercer et al. Dark Horse
7. Cajun Justice. Patterson/Axum. Grand Central
8. The Truths We Hold. Kamala Harris. Penguin Books
9. Fire & Blood. Martin/Wheatley. Bantam
10. Rand McNally 2021 Large Scale Road Atlas. Rand McNally
