- Associated Press - Monday, December 30, 2019

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. β€˜β€™The Guardians,’’ John Grisham (Doubleday)

2. β€˜β€™The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse,’’ Charlie Mackesy (Harperone)



3. β€˜β€™The Institute,’’ Stephen King (Scribner)

4. β€˜β€™Criss Cross,’’ James Patterson (Little, Brown)

5. β€˜β€™Strange Planet, “’Nathan W. Pyle (Morrow Gift)

6. β€˜β€™A Minute to Midnight,’’ David Baldacci (Grand Central)

7. β€˜β€™Blue Moon,’’ Lee Child (Delacorte )

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8. β€˜β€™The Dutch House,’’ Ann Patchett (Harper)

9. β€˜β€™Twisted Twenty-Six,’’ Janet Evanovich (Putnam)

10. β€˜β€™The Testaments ,β€˜β€™ Margaret Atwood (Doubleday/Talese)

11. β€˜β€™The Silent Patient,’’ Alex Michaelides (Celadon )

12. β€˜β€™The Water Dance,r’’ Ta-Nehisi Coates (One World)

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13. β€˜β€™Tom Clancy: Code of Honor,’’ Marc Cameron (Putnam )

14. β€˜β€™Olive, Again,’’ Elizabeth Strout (Random House)

15. β€˜β€™The Giver of Stars,’’ Jojo Moyes (Viking/Dorman)

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

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1. β€˜β€™The Pioneer Woman Cooks,’’ Ree Drummond (Morrow)

2. β€˜β€™Guinness World Records 2020,’’ (Guinness World Records )

3. β€˜β€™Becoming: A Guided Journal for Discovering… Michelle Obama,’’ (Clarkson Potter)

4. β€˜β€™Me,’’ Elton John (Holt )

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5. β€˜β€™Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers,’’ Brian Kilmeade (Sentinel)

6. β€˜β€™Talking to Strangers,’’ Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown)

7. β€˜β€™Triggered,’’ Donald Trump Jr. (Center Street)

8. β€˜β€™The Body,’’ Bill Bryson (Doubleday)

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9. β€˜β€™The Book of Gutsy Women,’’ Hillary Rodham Clinton (Simon & Schuster)

10. β€˜β€™A Warning,’’ Anonymous (Twelve )

11. β€˜β€™I Really Needed this Today,’’ Hoda Kotb Putnam

12. β€˜β€™With All Due Respect,β€˜β€™ Nikki R. Haley (St. Martin’s)

13. β€˜β€™Mobituaries,’’ Mo Rocca (Simon & Schuster)

14. β€˜β€™The Way I Heard It,’’ Mike Rowe (Gallery)

15. β€˜β€™The Blue Zones Kitchen,’’ Dan Buettner (National Geographic)

MASS MARKET PAPERBACKS

1. β€˜β€™Silent Night,β€˜β€™Danielle Steel (Dell )

2. β€˜β€™The 13-Minute Murder’’ James Patterson (Vision)

3. β€˜β€™The First Lady,β€˜β€™ Patterson/DuBois (Grand Central)

4. β€˜β€™The House Next Door,’’ James Patterson (Grand Central )

5. β€˜β€™The Best of Us,’’ Robyn Carr (Mira)

6. β€˜β€™Running Scared,’’ Lisa Jackson (Zebra)

7. β€˜β€™Bloody Trail of the Mountain Man,’’ William W. Johnstone (Pinnacle0

8. β€˜β€™Tom Clancy: Oath of Office,’’ Marc Cameron (Berkley)

9. β€˜β€™Christmas with You,’’ Nora Roberts (Silhouette )

10. β€˜β€™Their Perfect Match,’’ Debbie Macomber (Mira)

11. β€˜β€™Winter’s Proposal,’’ Sherryl Woods (Mira )

12. β€˜β€™Sea of Greed,’’ Clive Cussler (Putnam)

13. β€˜β€™Doctor Sleep,’’ Stephen King (Pocket )

14. β€˜β€™The Reckoning,’’ John Grisham (Dell)

15. β€˜β€™You Don’t Own,’’ Me Mary Higgins Clark (Pocket)

TRADE PAPERBACKS

1. β€˜β€™The Ultimate Instant Pot Cookbook,’’ Simon Rush

2. β€˜β€™The Overstory,’’ Richard Powers (Norton)

3. β€˜β€™No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference,’’ Greta Thunberg (Penguin)

4. β€˜β€™Prayer Journal for Women,’’ Shannon Roberts (PCG )

5. β€˜β€™Every Breath,’’ Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central)

6. β€˜β€™Little Fires Everywhere,’’ Celeste Ng (Penguin)

7. β€˜β€™A Gentleman in Moscow,’’ Amor Towles (Penguin)

8. β€˜β€™The Old Farmer’s Almanac 2020,’’ Old Farmer’s Almanac (Old Farmer’s Almanac )

9. β€˜β€™Before We Were Yours,’’ Lisa Wingate (Ballantine)

10. β€˜β€™The Great Alone,’’ Kristin Hannah (St. Martin’s Griffin)

11. β€˜β€™The Irishman (movie tie-in), β€˜β€™Charles Brandt (Steerforth)

12. β€˜β€™The Woman in the Window,’’ A. J. Finn (Morrow)

13. β€˜β€™Watchmen,’’ Alan Moore (DC)

14. β€˜β€™The Cornwalls, β€˜β€™Vanish Patterson/DuBois (Grand Central)

15. β€˜β€™Born a Crime ,β€˜β€™Trevor Noah “(Spiegel & Grau)

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