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The week’s bestselling books, Dec. 15

EntertainmentThe week’s bestselling books, Dec. 15


Hardcover fiction

1. James by Percival Everett (Doubleday: $28) An action-packed reimagining of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.”

2. Wind and Fact by Brandon Sanderson (Tor Books: $40) The fifth guide within the bestselling epic fantasy sequence Stormlight Archive.

3. Intermezzo by Sally Rooney (Farrar, Straus & Giroux: $29) Two grieving brothers come to phrases with their historical past and the folks they love.

4. All Fours by Miranda July (Riverhead Books: $29) A lady upends her home life on this irreverent and tender novel.

5. Small Issues Like These by Claire Keegan (Grove Press: $20) Through the 1985 Christmas season, a coal service provider in an Irish village makes a troubling discovery.

6. The Metropolis and Its Unsure Partitions by Haruki Murakami (Knopf: $35) The acclaimed author returns with a love story and ode to books and the libraries that home them.

7. Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner (Scribner: $30) A seductive and crafty American lady infiltrates an anarchist collective in France.

8. The God of the Woods by Liz Moore (Riverhead Books: $30) Two worlds collide when a youngster vanishes from her Adirondacks summer season camp.

9. Playground by Richard Powers (W.W. Norton & Co.: $30) The Pacific Ocean-set novel explores one of many final wild locations now we have but to colonize.

10. The Ready by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown & Co.: $30) LAPD Det. Renee Ballard tracks a serial rapist whose path has gone chilly.

Hardcover nonfiction

1. The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.) (Scribner: $20) The “Braiding Sweetgrass” creator on gratitude, reciprocity and group, and the teachings to take from the pure world.

2. The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates (One World: $30) The Nationwide Ebook Award winner travels to 3 websites of battle to discover how the tales we inform, and those we don’t, form our realities.

3. Be Prepared When the Luck Occurs by Ina Garten (Crown: $34) The Barefoot Contessa shares the story of her rise within the meals world.

4. Didion and Babitz by Lili Anolik (Scribner: $30) Eve Babitz’s diary-like letters present a window into her fellow literary titan, Joan Didion.

5. Cher by Cher (Dey Avenue Books: $36) The celebrity reveals her true story within the first a part of a two-part memoir.

6. The Extensive Extensive Sea by Hampton Sides (Doubleday: $35) An epic account of Capt. James Cook dinner’s ultimate voyage.

7. Revenge of the Tipping Level by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown & Co.: $32) The bestselling creator reframes the teachings of his first guide 25 years later.

8. Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari (Random Home: $35) How the move of data has formed our world.

9. Patriot by Alexei Navalny (Knopf $35) The memoir of a political opposition chief who paid the final word worth for his beliefs.

10. Ottolenghi Consolation by Yotam Ottolenghi (Ten Velocity Press: $38) The favored chef reimagines consolation meals with greater than 100 private recipes.

Paperback fiction

1. Orbital by Samantha Harvey (Grove Press: $17)

2. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (Classic: $19)

3. North Woods by Daniel Mason (Random Home Commerce Paperbacks: $18)

4. The Vegetarian by Han Kang (Hogarth: $17)

5. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper Perennial: $22)

6. The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon (Classic: $18)

7. Depraved by Gregory Maguire (William Morrow Paperbacks: $20)

8. The Finest American Brief Tales 2024 by Lauren Groff, Heidi Pitlor (Editors) (Mariner Books: $20)

9. The Overstory by Richard Powers (Norton: $19)

10. The Thursday Homicide Membership by Richard Osman (Penguin: $18)

Paperback nonfiction

1. The Yard Chicken Chronicles by Amy Tan (Knopf: $35)

2. On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder (Crown: $12)

3. The Artwork Thief by Michael Finkel (Classic: $18)

4. The 4 Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz (Amber-Allen: $13)

5. All About Love by bell hooks (Morrow: $17)

6. Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe (Classic: $20)

7. The Finest American Essays 2024 by Wesley Morris, Kim Dana Kupperman (Editors) (Mariner Books: $19)

8. The Artist’s Method by Julia Cameron (TarcherPerigee: $20)

9. It’s OK to Be Offended About Capitalism by Sen. Bernie Sanders (Crown: $20)

10. Democracy Awakening by Heather Cox Richardson (Penguin: $18)

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