This week’s best-sellers from Publishers Weekly

  • Tribune News Service
  • Sunday, December 16, 2018 1:30am
  • Life

Here are the best-sellers for the week that ended Saturday, Dec. 8, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. The Reckoning. John Grisham. Doubleday

2. Of Blood and Bone. Nora Roberts. St. Martin’s

3. Fire & Blood. George R.R. Martin. Bantam

4. Every Breath. Nicholas Sparks. Grand Central

5. Target: Alex Cross. James Patterson. Little, Brown

6. Long Road to Mercy. David Baldacci. Grand Central

7. Past Tense. Lee Child. Delacorte

8. The Next Person You Meet in Heaven. Mitch Albom. Harper

9. Look Alive Twenty-Five. Janet Evanovich. Putnam

10. Tom Clancy: Oath of Office. Marc Cameron. Putnam

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Becoming. Michelle Obama. Crown

2. The Point of It All. Charles Krauthammer. Crown Forum

3. Homebody. Joanna Gaines. Harper Design

4. Girl, Wash Your Face. Rachel Hollis. Nelson

5. Whose Boat Is This Boat? The Late Show. Simon & Schuster

6. Magnolia Table. Joanna Gaines. Morrow

7. Guinness World Records 2019. Guinness World Records

8. Killing the SS. O’Reilly/Dugard. Holt

9. Educated. Tara Westover. Random House

10. Cook Like a Pro. Ina Garten. Clarkson Potter

MASS MARKET

1. Accidental Heroes. Danielle Steel. Dell

2. Torture of the Mountain Man. William W. Johnstone. Pinnacle

3. See How She Dies. Lisa Jackson. Zebra

4. A Dog’s Way Home (movie tie-in). W. Bruce Cameron. Forge

5. Princess. Patterson/Jones. Grand Central

6. Die by the Gun. William W. Johnstone. Pinnacle

7. The Switch. Sandra Brown. Grand Central

8. Someone to Trust. Mary Balogh. Berkley

9. The Other Miss Bridgerton. Julia Quinn. Avon

10. Tom Clancy: Power and Empire. Marc Cameron. Berkley

TRADE PAPERBACK

1. The Tattooist of Auschwitz. Heather Morris. Harper

2. A Dog’s Way Home (movie tie-in). W. Bruce Cameron. Forge

3. One Day in December. Josie Silver. Broadway

4. Becoming (large print ed.). Michelle Obama. Random House

5. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine. Gail Honeyman. Penguin Books

6. Sapiens. Yuval Noah Harari. Harper Perennial

7. The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2019. World Almanac

8. Milkman. Anna Burns. Graywolf

9. Uncommon Type. Tom Hanks. Vintage

10. My Hero Academia, Vol. 16. Kohei Horikoshi. Viz

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