PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLERS
Publishers Weekly bestsellers for week ending Jan. 14.
HARDCOVER FICTION
1. “The House of Wolves” by Patterson/Lupica (Little, Brown)
2. “Hell Bent” by Leigh Bardugo (Flatiron)
3. “Lessons in Chemistry” by Bonnie Garmus (Doubleday)
4. “The House in the Pines” by Ana Reyes (Dutton)
5. “Tomorrow, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow” by Gabrielle Zevin (Knopf)
6. “The Boys from Biloxi” by John Grisham (Doubleday)
7. “Without a Trace” by Danielle Steel (Delacorte)
8. “Demon Copperhead” by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper)
9. “Fairy Tale” by Stephen King (Scribner)
10. “Just the Nicest Couple” by Mary
Kubica (Park Row)
11. “Mad Honey” by Picoult/Boylan (Ballantine)
12. “Verity” by Colleen hoover (Grand Central Publishing)
13. “Dreamland” by Nicholas Sparks (Random House)
14. “Desert Star” by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown)
15. “Triple Cross” by James Patterson (Little, Brown)
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. “Spare” by Prince Harry (Random House)
2. “The Light We Carry” by Michelle Obama (Crown)
3. “One: Simple One-Pan Wonders” by Jamie Oliver (Flatiron)
4. “The Good Life” by Waldinger/ Schultz (Simon & Schuster)
5. “I’m Glad My Mom Died” by Jennette McCurdy (Simon & Schuster)
6. “The Galveston Diet” by Mary Claire Haver (Rodale)
7. “The Nazi Conspiracy” by Meltzer/ Mensch (Flatiron)
8. “Good Boundaries and Goodbyes” by Lysa TerKeurst (Thomas Nelson)
9. “Faith Still Moves Mountains” by Harris Faulkner (Broadside)
10. “Go-to Dinners” by Ina Garten (Clarkson Potter)
11. “An Immense World” by Ed Yong (Random House)
12. “Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing” by Matthew Perry (Flatiron)
13. “The Elven Cookbook” by Robert Tuesley Anderson (Thunder Bay)
14. “Fast Like a Girl” by Mindy Pelz (Hay House)
15. “Lighter” by Yung Pueblo (Harmony)
MASS MARKET PAPERBACK
1. “Rich Dad Poor Dad” by Robert T. Kiyosake (Plata)
2. “High Stakes” by Danielle Steel (Dell)
3. “Desperation in Death” by J.D. Robb (St. Martin’s Press)
4. “The Mysterious Amish Nanny” by Patrice Lewis (Love Inspired)
5. “Preacher’s Purge” by Johnstone/ Johnstone (Pinnacle)
6. “A Gambling Man” by David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing)
7. “Smoke Screen” by Sandra Brown (Pocket)
8. “The Judge’s List” by John Grisham (Vintage)
9. “Steal” by Patterson/Roughan (Grand Central Publishing)
10. “Navy Grooms” by Debbie Macomber (Mira)
11. “Invisible” by Danielle Steel (Dell)
12. “A Face to Die For” by Iris Johansen (Grand Central Publishing)
13. “Secret Getaway” by Nora Roberts (Silhouette)
14. “A Slow Fire Burning” by Paula Hawkins (Riverhead)
15. “Bad Days for Bad Men” by Johnstone/Johnstone (Pinnacle)
TRADE PAPERBACKS
1. “It Starts with Us” by Colleen Hoover (Atria)
2. “Reminders of Him” by Colleen Hoover (Montlake) demonstrates how well she can fold real substance into a charming story.
So it sounds churlish to raise reservations about a novel as tender as “Sam,” but there’s something increasingly restrained
3. “Things We Never Got Over” by Lucy Score (Bloom)
4. “Kaiju No. 8, Vol. 5” by Naoya Matsumoto (Viz)
5. “The Maid” by Nita Prose (Ballantine)
6. “Loathe to Love You” by Ali Hazelwood (Berkley)
7. “Twisted Love” by Ana Huang (Bloom)
8. “Hour Game” by David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing)
9. “Maybe Now” by Colleen Hoover (Atria)
10. “Spare” (large-print ed.) by Prince Harry (Random House)
11. “Spare” (Spanish ed.) by Prince Harry (Plaza & Janes)
12. “Book Lovers” by Emily Henry (Berkley)
13. “You Just Need to Lose Weight” by Aubrey Gordon (Beacon)
14. “The Housemaid” by Freida McFadden (Grand Central Publishing)
15. “A Court of Silver Flames” by Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury)
— ASSOCIATED PRESS about this book that’s out of style with its modern plot. What feels adorable and raw in the early chapters grows merely moody as Sam comes of age.
If only the author would take as many risks on the page as Sam does on the boulders. This is, after all, a story that involves exploitation, divorce, addiction, death and guilt, but “Sam” never free solos. We know the novel’s prettiness will always be there to belay this heroine to a gentle landing.