BESTSELLERS

Fiction

1. The Lincoln Highway

by Amor Towles. Two friends who escaped from a juvenile work farm take Emmett Watson on an unexpected journey to New York in 1954.

2. The Wish

by Nicholas Sparks. Maggie Dawes, a renowned travel photographer, struggles with a medical diagnosis over Christmas.

3. Cloud Cuckoo Land

by Anthony Doerr. An interconnected cast of dreamers and outsiders are in dangerous and disparate settings past, present and future.

4. Crossroads

by Jonathan Franzen. Members of a Midwestern family find themselves at a pivotal moment of moral crisis in 1971.

5. Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty. The Delaney siblings suspect their father of causing the disappearance of their mother.

6. Harlem Shuffle

by Colson Whitehead. Ray Carney, a family man who sells furniture on 125th Street, gets a new clientele made up of vicious and unsavory characters.

7. The Butler

by Danielle Steel. The working relationship between a man and woman from different worlds develops into something new for them.

8. The Last Thing He Told Me

by Laura Dave. Hannah Hall discovers truths about her missing husband and bonds with his daughter from a previous relationship.

9. Billy Summers

by Stephen King. A killer for hire who only takes out bad guys seeks redemption as he does one final job.

10. The Jailhouse Lawyer

by James Patterson and Nancy Allen. A young lawyer winds up in an Alabama jail that remains mysteriously crowded.

Nonfiction

1. The Storyteller

by Dave Grohl. A memoir by the musician known for his work with Foo Fighters and Nirvana.

2. Peril

by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa. The Washington Post journalists detail the dangers and challenges during the transition to the Joe Biden presidency.

3. Taste

by Stanley Tucci. The award-winning actor reflects on his career, Italian American heritage, meals and mishaps.

4. I’ll Take Your Questions Now

by Stephanie Grisham. The former White House press secretary and communications director recounts her time in President Donald Trump’s inner circle.

5. Vanderbilt

by Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe. The CNN host and descendant of the Vanderbilt family charts the rise and fall of this American dynasty.

6. American Marxism

by Mark R. Levin. The Fox News host gives his take on the Green New Deal, critical race theory and social activism.

7. The Dying Citizen

by Victor Davis Hanson. The author of “The Case for Trump” gives his take on globalization and tribalism.

8. A Carnival of Snackery

by David Sedaris. Public and private moments chronicled from the humorist’s 2003-20 diaries.

9. There Is Nothing for You Here

by Fiona Hill. The foreign policy expert traces her life from being a coal miner’s daughter in northern England to her testimony in the first impeachment inquiry of former President Donald Trump.

10. A Confederacy of Dumptys

by John Lithgow. An illustrated collection of poems and illustrations profiling scoundrels from America’s past and present.