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The week’s bestselling books, Dec. 29

EntertainmentThe week’s bestselling books, Dec. 29


Hardcover fiction

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

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

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

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

5. The Metropolis and Its Unsure Partitions by Haruki Murakami (Knopf: $35) A love story and ode to books and the libraries that home them.

6. The Ladies by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin’s Press: $30) An intimate portrait of coming of age in a harmful time.

7. The God of the Woods by Liz Moore (Riverhead Books: $30) Two worlds collide when an adolescent vanishes from her Adirondacks summer time camp.

8. Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar (Knopf: $28) An orphaned son of Iranian immigrants embarks on a seek for a household secret.

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

10. The Wedding ceremony Individuals by Alison Espach (Henry Holt & Co.: $29) An surprising wedding ceremony visitor will get shock assistance on her journey to beginning anew.

Hardcover nonfiction

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

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

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

4. Patriot by Alexei Navalny (Knopf $35) The memoir of a political opposition chief who paid the last word worth.

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

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

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

8. Carson the Magnificent by Invoice Zehme (Simon & Schuster: $30) A biography 20 years within the making of the entertainer who redefined late-night tv and reshaped American tradition.

9. The Wager by David Grann (Doubleday: $30) The story of the shipwreck of an 18th century British warship and a mutiny among the many survivors.

10. The Broad Broad Sea by Hampton Sides (Doubleday: $35) An epic account of Capt. James Cook dinner’s remaining voyage.

Paperback fiction

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

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

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

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

5. Mission Hail Mary by Andy Weir (Ballantine: $20)

6. The Greatest American Quick Tales 2024 by Lauren Groff, Heidi Pitlor (Editors) (Mariner Books: $20)

7. My Good Good friend by Elena Ferrante (Europa Editions: $17)

8. The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters (Catapult: $18)

9. The Hunter by Tana French (Penguin: $19)

10. Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros (Entangled: Purple Tower Books: $21)

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

5. All of the Magnificence within the World by Patrick Bringley (Simon & Schuster: $19)

6. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed Editions: $20)

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

8. World Journey by Anthony Bourdain, Laurie Woolever (Ecco: $22)

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

10. Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey (Crown: $20)

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