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A best-selling ‘Force’:

Star Wars fans aren’t getting their fix just at the box office — they’re getting it in bookstores, too. Eight Star Wars titles zoom into the Top 150 this week. Star

Wars: The Force Awakens, the movie, has pulled in more than $1 billion worldwide. Star Wars: The Force Awakens Visual Dictionary is the top-selling tie-in book, at No. 19. It bills itself as the “definitive guide to the characters, droids, aliens and creatures” of the movie. Also in the top 50:

Star Wars Before the Awakening at No. 46. Titles beyond the top 50 include Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You

Need to Know at

No. 56 and Star Wars: The Force Awakens Incredible Cross-Sections at No. 62.

Of course, various Star Wars titles, from novelizations to “Making of ” companions, are nothing new. Nearly 200 such books have made the top 150 since the list began in 1993, and two hit No. 1.

Holiday hits:

USA TODAY’s list highly reflects Christmas gift-giving. Out of the top 50 titles, only one — The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah at No. 26 — had higher ebook sales than print. Forty of the top 50 sold the most copies in hardcover; it’s a good bet many of them ended up wrapped under the tree. Among the week’s top sellers: Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School

by Jeff Kinney at No. 1; Killing

Reagan by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard at No. 2; and Rogue

Lawyer by John Grisham at No. 3. Several long-running hits had strong holiday sales: The Girl on

the Train by Paula Hawkins at

No. 8; All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr at No. 10; and The Life-Changing Magic of Tidy

ing Up by Marie Kondo at No. 12.