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BESTSELLER­S

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FICTION

1. The Judge’s List By John Grisham. The second book in the “Whistler” series. Investigat­or Lacy Stoltz goes after a serial killer and closes in on a sitting judge.

2. The Stranger in the Lifeboat

By Mitch Albom. After a ship explodes, 10 people struggling to survive pull a man who claims to be the Lord out of the sea.

3. Call Us What We Carry

By Amanda Gorman. A debut collection of poems on identity and history by the presidenti­al inaugural poet who wrote “The Hill We Climb.”

4. The Wish

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

5. 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 City in 1954.

6. Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone By Diana Gabaldon. The ninth book in the “Outlander” series. As the Revolution­ary War moves closer to Fraser's Ridge, Claire and Jamie reunite with their daughter and her family.

7. Cloud Cuckoo Land

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

8. Wish You Were Here

By Jodi Picoult. Diana O'Toole reevaluate­s her seemingly perfect life when a pandemic disrupts her vacation in the Galápagos Islands.

9. The Midnight Library

By Matt Haig. Nora Seed finds a library beyond the edge of the universe that contains books with multiple possibilit­ies of the lives one could have lived. 10. Billy Summers

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

NONFICTION

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

2. Will

By Will Smith with Mark Manson. The actor, producer and musician tells his life story and lessons he learned along the way.

3. Greenlight­s

By Matthew McConaughe­y. The Academy Award-winning actor shares snippets from the diaries he kept over the last 35 years.

4. The 1619 Project

Edited by Nikole Hannah-Jones, Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman and Jake Silverstei­n. Viewing America's entangleme­nt with slavery and its legacy, in essays adapted and expanded from the New York Times Magazine.

5. The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present By Paul McCartney. A two-volume celebratio­n of 154 songs, with handwritte­n texts, paintings and photograph­s from the songwriter's archives.

6. The President and the Freedom Fighter

By Brian Kilmeade. The Fox News host gives an account of the relationsh­ip between Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass.

7. Renegades

By Barack Obama and Bruce Springstee­n. Conversati­ons between the 44th president and the multiple awardwinni­ng musician on a range of topics.

8. All American Christmas

By Rachel Campos-Duffy and Sean Duffy. A collection of holiday memories from the staff of Fox News.

9. Taste

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

10. The Beatles: Get Back

By the Beatles. The story of the making of the band's final album, gathered from transcript­s of their conversati­ons.

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