Bestsellers for the week ending Dec. 26

Publishers Weekly’s U.S. list powered by NPD BookScan for the week ending Dec. 26.

HARDCOVER

FICTION

1. A TIME FOR MERCY, by John Grisham (Doubleday)

2. READY PLAYER TWO, by Ernest Cline (Ballantine)

3. THE RETURN, by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central)

4. THE VANISHING HALF, by Brit Bennett (Riverhead)

5. DEADLY CROSS, by James Patterson (Little, Brown)

6. IF IT BLEEDS, by Stephen King (Scribner Book)

7. DAYLIGHT, by David Baldacci (Grand Central)

8. THE SENTINEL, by Lee Child and Andrew Child (Delacorte)

9. THE AWAKENING, by Nora Roberts (St. Martin’s)

10. THE LAW OF INNOCENCE, by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown)

NONFICTION

1. A PROMISED LAND, by Barack Obama (Crown)

2. GREENLIGHTS, by Matthew McConaughey (Crown)

3. MODERN COMFORT FOOD, by Ina Garten (Clarkson Potter)

4. GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS 2021 (Guinness World Records)

5. UNTAMED, by Glennon Doyle (Dial)

6. MAGNOLIA TABLE, Vol. 2, by Joanna Gaines (Morrow)

7. CASTE, by Isabel Wilkerson (Random House)

8. HUMANS, by Brandon Stanton (St. Martin’s)

9. BAG MAN, by Rachel Maddow and Michael Yarvitz (Crown)

10. IS THIS ANYTHING?, by Jerry Seinfeld (Simon & Schuster)

PAPERBACK

1. INTERESTING STORIES FOR CURIOUS PEOPLE, by Bill O’Neill (LAK)

2. HOME BODY, by Rupi Kaur (Andrews McMeel)

3. BURN AFTER WRITING (pink), by Sharon Jones (TarcherPerigee)

4. THE INSTITUTE, by Stephen King (Gallery)

5. THE STEP-BY-STEP INSTANT POT COOKBOOK, by Jeffrey Eisner (Voracious)

6. THE TRUTHS WE HOLD, by Kamala Harris (Penguin Books)

7. THE STAND (TV tie-in), by Stephen King (Anchor)

8. NYPD RED 6, by James Patterson and Marshall Karp (Grand Central)

9. CIRCE, by Madeline Miller (Back Bay)

10. THE OLD FARMER’S ALMANAC 2021 (Old Farmer’s Almanac)