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HARDCOVER FICTION

1. ‘’The Guardians,” John Grisham (Doubleday)

2. ‘’The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse,” Charlie Mackesy (Harperone)

3. ‘’The Institute,” Stephen King (Scribner)

4. ‘’Criss Cross,” James Patterson (Little, Brown)

5. ‘’Strange Planet, “‘Nathan W. Pyle (Morrow Gift)

6. ‘’A Minute to Midnight,” David Baldacci (Grand Central)

7. ‘’Blue Moon,” Lee Child (Delacorte )

8. ‘’The Dutch House,” Ann Patchett (Harper)

9. ‘’Twisted Twenty-Six,” Janet Evanovich (Putnam)

10. ‘’The Testaments ,‘’ Margaret Atwood (Doubleday/Talese)

11. ‘’The Silent Patient,” Alex Michaelides (Celadon )

12. ‘’The Water Dance,r” Ta-Nehisi Coates (One World)

13. ‘’Tom Clancy: Code of Honor,” Marc Cameron (Putnam )

14. ‘’Olive, Again,” Elizabeth Strout (Random House)

15. ‘’The Giver of Stars,” Jojo Moyes (Viking/Dorman)

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. ‘’The Pioneer Woman Cooks,” Ree Drummond (Morrow)

2. ‘’Guinness World Records 2020,” (Guinness World Records )

3. ‘’Becoming: A Guided Journal for Discovering… Michelle Obama,” (Clarkson Potter)

4. ‘’Me,” Elton John (Holt )

5. ‘’Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers,” Brian Kilmeade (Sentinel)

6. ‘’Talking to Strangers,” Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown)

7. ‘’Triggered,” Donald Trump Jr. (Center Street)

8. ‘’The Body,” Bill Bryson (Doubleday)

9. ‘’The Book of Gutsy Women,” Hillary Rodham Clinton (Simon & Schuster)

10. ‘’A Warning,” Anonymous (Twelve )

11. ‘’I Really Needed this Today,” Hoda Kotb Putnam

12. ‘’With All Due Respect,‘’ Nikki R. Haley (St. Martin’s)

13. ‘’Mobituaries,” Mo Rocca (Simon & Schuster)

14. ‘’The Way I Heard It,” Mike Rowe (Gallery)

15. ‘’The Blue Zones Kitchen,” Dan Buettner (National Geographic)

MASS MARKET PAPERBACKS

1. ‘’Silent Night,‘’Danielle Steel (Dell )

2. ‘’The 13-Minute Murder” James Patterson (Vision)

3. ‘’The First Lady,‘’ Patterson/DuBois (Grand Central)

4. ‘’The House Next Door,” James Patterson (Grand Central )

5. ‘’The Best of Us,” Robyn Carr (Mira)

6. ‘’Running Scared,” Lisa Jackson (Zebra)

7. ‘’Bloody Trail of the Mountain Man,” William W. Johnstone (Pinnacle0

8. ‘’Tom Clancy: Oath of Office,” Marc Cameron (Berkley)

9. ‘’Christmas with You,” Nora Roberts (Silhouette )

10. ‘’Their Perfect Match,” Debbie Macomber (Mira)

11. ‘’Winter’s Proposal,” Sherryl Woods (Mira )

12. ‘’Sea of Greed,” Clive Cussler (Putnam)

13. ‘’Doctor Sleep,” Stephen King (Pocket )

14. ‘’The Reckoning,” John Grisham (Dell)

15. ‘’You Don’t Own,” Me Mary Higgins Clark (Pocket)

TRADE PAPERBACKS

1. ‘’The Ultimate Instant Pot Cookbook,” Simon Rush

2. ‘’The Overstory,” Richard Powers (Norton)

3. ‘’No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference,” Greta Thunberg (Penguin)

4. ‘’Prayer Journal for Women,” Shannon Roberts (PCG )

5. ‘’Every Breath,” Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central)

6. ‘’Little Fires Everywhere,” Celeste Ng (Penguin)

7. ‘’A Gentleman in Moscow,” Amor Towles (Penguin)

8. ‘’The Old Farmer’s Almanac 2020,” Old Farmer’s Almanac (Old Farmer’s Almanac )

9. ‘’Before We Were Yours,” Lisa Wingate (Ballantine)

10. ‘’The Great Alone,” Kristin Hannah (St. Martin’s Griffin)

11. ‘’The Irishman (movie tie-in), ‘’Charles Brandt (Steerforth)

12. ‘’The Woman in the Window,” A. J. Finn (Morrow)

13. ‘’Watchmen,” Alan Moore (DC)

14. ‘’The Cornwalls, ‘’Vanish Patterson/DuBois (Grand Central)

15. ‘’Born a Crime ,‘’Trevor Noah “(Spiegel & Grau)

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