The fiction room at Turn of the Corkscrew bookstore in...

The fiction room at Turn of the Corkscrew bookstore in Rockville Centre. Credit: Marisol Diaz

Publisher’s Weekly’s U.S. list powered by NPD BookScan for the week ending Dec. 15.

HARDCOVER

FICTION

1. THE RECKONING, by John Grisham (Doubleday)

2. FIRE & BLOOD, by George R.R. Martin (Bantam)

3. EVERY BREATH, by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central)

4. TARGET: ALEX CROSS, by James Patterson (Little, Brown)

5. THE NEXT PERSON YOU MEET IN HEAVEN, by Mitch Albom (Harper)

6. WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING, by Delia Owens (Putnam)

7. LONG ROAD TO MERCY, by David Baldacci (Grand Central)

8. PAST TENSE, by Lee Child (Delacorte)

9. OF BLOOD AND BONE, by Nora Roberts (St. Martin’s)

10. LOOK ALIVE TWENTY-FIVE, by Janet Evanovich (Putnam)

NONFICTION

1. BECOMING, by Michelle Obama (Crown)

2. THE POINT OF IT ALL, by Charles Krauthammer (Crown Forum)

3. HOMEBODY, by Joanna Gaines (Harper Design)

4. GIRL, WASH YOUR FACE, by Rachel Hollis (Nelson)

5. WHOSE BOAT IS THIS BOAT?, by The Late Show (Simon & Schuster)

6. MAGNOLIA TABLE, by Joanna Gaines (Morrow)

7. EDUCATED, by Tara Westover (Random House)

8. GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS 2019 (Guinness World Records)

9. KILLING THE SS, by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard (Holt)

10. COOK LIKE A PRO, by Ina Garten (Clarkson Potter)

PAPERBACK

1. THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ, by Heather Morris (Harper)

2. A DOG’S WAY HOME (movie tie-in), by W. Bruce Cameron (Forge)

3. SAPIENS, by Yuval Noah Harari (Harper Perennial)

4. ELEANOR OLIPHANT IS COMPLETELY FINE, by Gail Honeyman (Penguin Books)

5. ONE DAY IN DECEMBER, by Josie Silver (Broadway)

6. BECOMING (large print ed.), by Michelle Obama (Random House)

7. TEXAS RANGER, by James Patterson and Andrew Bourelle (Grand Central)

8. THE WORLD ALMANAC AND BOOK OF FACTS 2019 (World Almanac)

9. INSTANT POT MIRACLE: 6 INGREDIENTS OR LESS, by Ivy Manning (HMH)

10. LESS, by Andrew Sean Greer (Back Bay)

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