PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST-SELLERS

By Associated Press Lexington

PUBLISHED 4:36 PM ET Dec. 17, 2020

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. “Ready Player Two” by Ernest Cline (Ballantine)

2. “A Time for Mercy” by John Grisham (Doubleday)

3. “Deadly Cross” by James Patterson (Little, Brown)

4. “The Return” by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central)

5. “The Vanishing Half” by Brit Bennett (Riverhead)

6. “Daylight” by David Baldacci (Grand Central)

7. “The Awakening” by Nora Roberts (St. Martin’s)

8. “The Sentinel” by Child/Child (Delacorte)

9. “The Law of Innocence” by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown)

10.“Fortune and Glory” by Janet Evanovich (Atria)

11.“Anxious People” by Fredrik Backman (Atria)

12.“Tom Clancy: Shadow of the Dragon” by Marc Cameron (Putnam)

13.“Rhythm of War” by Brandon Sanderson (Tor)

14.“The Evening and the Morning” by Ken Follett (Viking)

15.“If It Bleeds” by Stephen King (Scribner)

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. “A Promised Land” by Barack Obama (Crown)

2. “Greenlights” by Matthew McConaughey (Crown)

3. “Bag Man” by Maddow/Yarvitz (Crown)

4. “Modern Comfort Food” by Ina Garten (Clarkson Potter)

5. “The Last Days of John Lennon” by James Patterson (Little, Brown)

6. “Guinness World Records 2021″ (Guinness World Records)

7. “Caste” by Isabel Wilkerson (Random House)

8. “Modern Warriors” by Pete Hegseth (Broadside)

9. “Untamed” by Glennon Doyle (Dial)

10.“Killing Crazy Horse” by O’Reilly/Dugard (Holt)

11.“Is This Anything?” by Jerry Seinfeld (Simon & Schuster)

12.“Forgiving What You Can’t Forget” by Lysa TerKeurst (Nelson )

13.“The Happy in a Hurry Cookbook” by Doocy/Doocy (Morrow )

14.“The Splendid and the Vile” by Erik Larson (Crown)

15.“Humans” by Brandon Stanton (St. Martin’s)

MASS MARKET PAPERBACKS

1. “Moral Compass” by Danielle Steel ( Dell)

2. “Texas Kill of the Mountain Man” by William W. Johnstone (Pinnacle)

3. “Unsolved” by Patterson/Elllis (Grand Central)

4. “The River Murders” by Patterson/Born (Grand Central)

5. “A Christmas Message” by Debbie Macomber (Mira)

6. “The Morning After” by Lisa Jackson (Zebra)

7. “The Shotgun Wedding” by William W. Johnstone (Pinnacle)

8. “Wyoming True” by Diana Palmer (HQN)

9. “White Hot” by Sandra Brown (Pocket)

10.“Light the Stars” by RaeAnne Thayne (Harlequin)

11.“A MacGregor Christmas” by Nora Roberts (Silhouette)

12.“Spy” by Danielle Steel (Dell)

13.“The Deserter” by DeMille/DeMille (Pocket)

14.“Someday with You” by Nora Roberts (Silhouette)

15.“Spirit of the Season” by Fern Michaels (Zebra)

TRADE PAPERBACKS

1. “Interesting Stories for Curious People” by Bill O’Neill (LAK)

2. “Home Body” by Rupi Kaur (Andrews McMeel)

3. “The MeatEater Guide to Wilderness Skills and Survival” by Steven Rinella (Random House)

4. “Air Fryer Cookbook” by Jenson William (Jenson William)

5. “Burn After Writing (pink)” by Sharon Jones (TarcherPerigee)

6. “The Step-by-Step Instant Pot Cookbook” by Jeffrey Eisner (Voracious)

7. “Layla” by Colleen Hoover (Montlake)

8. “A Promised Land” by Barack Obama (Random House Large Print)

9. “The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2021” by Sarah Janssen (World Almanac)

10.“Hillbilly Elegy (movie tie-in)” by J.D. Vance (Harper)

11.“Texas Outlaw” by Patterson/Bourelle (Grand Central)

12.“The Truths We Hold” by Kamala Harris (Penguin Books)

13.“The Chicken Sisters” by KJ Dell’Antonia (Putnam)

14.“The Old Farmer’s Almanac 2021″ (Old Farmer’s Almanac)

15.“Circe” by Madeline Miller (Back Bay)