PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLERS
Publishers Weekly bestsellers for week ending Dec. 24.
HARDCOVER FICTION
1. “Lessons in Chemistry” by Bonnie Garmus (Doubleday)
2. “The Boys from Biloxi” by John Grisham (Doubleday)
3. “Fairy Tale” by Stephen King (Scribner)
4. “Dreamland” by Nicholas Sparks (Random House)
5. “Demon Copperhead” by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper)
6. “Triple Cross” by James Patterson (Little, Brown)
7. “Mad Honey” by Picoult/Boylan (Ballantine)
8. “Tom Clancy: Red Winter” by Marc Cameron (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
9. “No Plan B” by Child/Child (Delacorte)
10. “Verity” by Colleen hoover (Grand Central Publishing)
11. “A World of Curiosities” by Louise Penny (Minotaur)
12. “Desert Star” by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown)
13. “Going Rogue” by Janet Evanovich (Atria)
14. “Tomorrow, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow” by Gabrielle Zevin (Knopf)
15. “Long Shadows” by David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing)
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. “The Light We Carry” by Michelle Obama (Crown)
2. “Go-to Dinners”
(Clarkson Potter)
3. “Faith Still Moves Mountains” by Harris Faulkner (Broadside)
4. “I’m Glad My Mom Died” by Jennette McCurdy (Simon & Schuster)
5. “Guinness World Records 2023” (Guinness World Records)
6. “The Simply Happy Cookbook” by Doocy/Doocy (William Morrow Cookbooks)
7. “Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing” by Matthew Perry
by Ina Garten (Flatiron)
8. “The Stories We Tell” by Joanna Gaines (Harper Select)
9. “Radio’s Greatest of All Time” by Rush Limbaugh (Threshold)
10. “And There Was Light” by Jon Meacham (Random House)
11. “Surrender” by Bono (Knopf)
12. “The Revolutionary” by Stacy Schiff (Little, Brown)
13. “Half Baked Harvest Every Day” by Tieghan Gerard (Clarkson Potter)
14. “An Immense World” by Ed Yong (Random House)
15. “So Help Me God” by
(Simon & Schuster)
Mike Pence
MASS MARKET PAPERBACK
1. “The Judge’s List” by John Grisham (Vintage)
2. “A Gambling Man” by David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing)
3. “Rich Dad Poor Dad” by Robert T. Kiyosake (Plata)
4. “Invisible” by Danielle Steel (Dell)
5. “Steal” by Patterson/Roughan (Grand Central Publishing)
6. “The Awakening” by Nora Roberts (St. Martin’s Press)
7. “A Bend in the Road” by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing)
8. “The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary” (Merriam-Webster)
9. “Written in the Stars” by Nora Roberts (Silhouette)
10. “Bad Days for Bad Men” by Johnstone/Johnstone (Pinnacle)
11. “Flying Angels” by Danielle Steel (Dell)
12. “Cruel Winter of the Mountain Man” by Johnstone/Johnstone (Pinnacle)
13. “One Step Too Far” by Lisa Gardner (Dutton)
14. “Twice Kissed” by Lisa Jackson (Zebra)
15. “Blind Tiger” by Sandra Brown (Grand Central Publishing)
TRADE PAPERBACKS
1. “It Starts with Us” by Colleen Hoover (Atria)
2. “Interesting Facts for Curious Minds” by Jordan Moore (Red Panda) In addition to having an emotionally remote father, the beloved movie dad is twice divorced. (He has been married since 1984 to his third wife, Winnie Holzman, who later created the series “My So-Called Life” and the Tony Award-winning libretto to the Broadway musical
3. “Reminders of Him” by Colleen Hoover (Montlake)
4. “The Ultimate Serial Killer Trivia Book” by Jack Rosewood (LAK)
5. “Jujutsu Kaisen, Vol. 18” by Gege Akutami (Viz)
6. “Never Finished” by David Goggins (Lioncrest)
7. “Things We Never Got Over” by Lucy Score (Bloom)
8. “The 2023 Old Farmer’s Almanac” (Old Farmer’s Almanac)
9. “Maybe Now” by Colleen Hoover (Atria)
10. “Heavens’ Official Blessing, Vol. 5” by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu (Seven Seas)
11. “One Piece, Vol. 101” by Eiichiro Oda (Viz)
12. “Queen of Myth and Monsters” by Scarlett St. Clair (Bloom)
13. “Twisted Love” by Ana Huang (Bloom)
14. “Book Lovers” by Emily Henry (Berkley)
15. “Project Hail Mary” by Andy Weir (Ballantine)
“Wicked.”) His second wife disappeared with their children following their divorce.
Spoiler alert: There is a happy ending to this offscreen drama.
It’s in the capacity of a movie dad that Dooley’s work has most resonated for generations. “Hundreds of young women,”
While both are terrific movies, they hardly provide a full picture of Italian-American life in the borough. “Saturday Night Fever,” which showed young Tony Manero torn between loyalty to the neighborhood and dreams of Manhattan, was probably closer to most bridgeand-tunnel kids’ experiences. Although touched by tragedy, the movie brims with a cocky joy
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he writes, “have written to me, or stopped me on the street, saying, ‘I wish you were my dad.’ ” beginning with the opening scene of John Travolta strutting through Bensonhurst as the king of disco.