October 21, 2020

Trade Paperback Fiction



Bestseller List for October 21, 2020
Based on sales for the week ending October 18, 2020
For an independent bookstore store near you, call 1-888-266-5736,
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  Trade Paperback Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. The Overstory
Richard Powers, Norton, $18.95, 9780393356687
National Book Award-winner Powers delivers a sweeping, impassioned novel of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of--and paean to--the natural world.
1/81
2. Circe
Madeline Miller, Back Bay, $16.99, 9780316556323
Miller's masterful follow-up to The Song of Achilles is a triumph of storytelling, an intoxicating epic of family rivalry, palace intrigue, love and loss, as well as a celebration of indomitable female strength in a man's world.
2/27
3. Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi, Vintage, $16.95, 9781101971062
Gyasi's extraordinary novel illuminates slavery's troubled legacy both for those who were taken and those who stayed--and shows how the memory of captivity has been inscribed on the soul of our nation.
7/35
4. The Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead, Anchor, $15.95, 9780345804341
Whitehead's masterful and haunting novel about two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida is the winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
3/16
5. Normal People
Sally Rooney, Hogarth, $17.00, 9781984822185
Rooney brings her brilliant psychological acuity and perfectly spare prose to a story that explores the subtleties of class, the electricity of first love, and the complex entanglements of family and friendship.
6/35
6. This Tender Land
William Kent Krueger, Atria, $17.00, 9781476749303
A magnificent novel about four orphans on a life-changing odyssey during the Great Depression.
4/20
7. The Topeka School
Ben Lerner, Picador, $17.00, 9781250758002
Lerner's novel is a tender and expansive family drama set in the American Midwest at the turn of the 21st century.
5/3
8. The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller, Ecco, $16.99, 9780062060624
Miller's monumental debut novel is an action-packed adventure and epic love story that brilliantly re-imagines Homer's enduring masterwork, The Iliad.
11/7
9. The Testaments
Margaret Atwood, Anchor, $16.95, 9780525562627
Atwood's masterful sequel to her modern classic, The Handmaid's Tale.
8/7
10. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $18.00, 9780441013593
Herbert's classic masterpiece--a triumph of the imagination--is soon to be a major motion picture.
9/6
11. A Single Thread
Tracy Chevalier, Penguin, $17.00, 9780525558262
An immersive, moving novel of a woman coming into her own at the dawn of the Second World War.
13/2
12. Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng, Penguin, $17.00, 9780143135166
A riveting novel that traces the intertwined fates of a picture-perfect family and the enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives. Now a Hulu original series.
12/76
13. A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles, Penguin, $17.00, 9780143110439
Towles' transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel.
/77
14. Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler, Grand Central, $16.99, 9781538732182
A post-apocalyptic novel of hope and terror by the bestselling author of Kindred.
10/9
15. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Olga Tokarczuk, Riverhead Books, $17.00, 9780525541349
Tokarczuk's Nobel Prize-winning novel is deeply satisfying thriller cum fairy tale, and a provocative exploration of the murky borderland between sanity and madness, justice and tradition, autonomy and fate.
/8


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Trade Paperback Nonfiction



Bestseller List for October 21, 2020
Based on sales for the week ending October 18, 2020
For an independent bookstore store near you, call 1-888-266-5736,
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  Trade Paperback Nonfiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $18.00, 9781571313560
Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, and as a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear their voices.
3/45
2. My Own Words
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, S&S, $18.00, 9781501145254
Ruth Bader Ginsburg's first book after becoming a Supreme Court Justice in 1993 is a witty, engaging, and serious collection of writings and speeches.
1/41
3. White Fragility
Robin DiAngelo, Beacon Press, $16.00, 9780807047415
DiAngelo explores the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.
2/80
4. The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson, Vintage, $17.95, 9780679763888
Pulitzer Prize-winner Wilkerson's chronicle of the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South in search of a better life.
4/37
5. The Color of Law
Richard Rothstein, Liveright, $17.95, 9781631494536
Rothstein's powerful book describes how the American government systematically imposed residential segregation.
12/25
6. So You Want to Talk About Race
Ijeoma Oluo, Seal Press, $16.99, 9781580058827
Oluo guides readers of all races in an attempt to make the seemingly impossible possible: honest conversations about race and racism, and how they infect almost every aspect of American life.
7/21
7. Born a Crime
Trevor Noah, One World, $18.00, 9780399588198
Noah's compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime coming-of-age memoir is set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed.
5/84
8. The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander, New Press, $18.99, 9781620971932
The tenth-anniversary edition of Alexander's iconic book discusses the impact the book has had and the state of the criminal justice reform movement today.
10/21
9. The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin, Vintage, $13.95, 9780679744726
At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice.
11/20
10. The Truths We Hold
Kamala Harris, Penguin, $18.00, 9780525560739
Senator and Vice Presidential Nominee Harris looks at the core truths that unite us, and the long struggle to discern what those truths are and how best to act upon them.
8/8
11. Intimations
Zadie Smith, Penguin, $10.95, 9780593297612
Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of reflective essays by one of the most clear-sighted and essential writers of our time.
6/12
12. Just Mercy
Bryan Stevenson, One World, $17.00, 9780593133934
A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice.
14/41
13. Stamped from the Beginning
Ibram X. Kendi, Bold Type Books, $19.99, 9781568585987
Kendi's National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society.
/20
14. Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari, Harper Perennial, $24.99, 9780062316110
A groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be human.
13/115
15. Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee- Debut
Casey Cep, Vintage, $16.95, 9781101972052
Cep unravels the mystery surrounding Harper Lee's first and only work of nonfiction, and the shocking true crimes at the center of it.
/1


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Hardcover Fiction



Bestseller List for October 21, 2020
Based on sales for the week ending October 18, 2020
For an independent bookstore store near you, call 1-888-266-5736,
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  Hardcover Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. The Searcher
Tana French, Viking, $27.00, 9780735224650
In French's latest novel of suspense, a former Chicago police officer retreats to a bucolic Irish village and starts to realize that even small towns shelter dangerous secrets.
1/2
2. A Time for Mercy- Debut
John Grisham, Doubleday, $29.95, 9780385545969
Jake Brigance returns in John Grisham's most powerful courtroom drama yet.
/1
3. The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett, Riverhead Books, $27.00, 9780525536291
Bennett's beautiful new novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white. A June 2020 Indie Next List Great Read.
4/20
4. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
V.E. Schwab, Tor, $26.99, 9780765387561
France, 1714: In a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever--and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. The #1 Indie Next List Great Read for October 2020.
2/2
5. Anxious People
Fredrik Backman, Atria, $28.00, 9781501160837
An ingeniously constructed novel about the enduring power of friendship, forgiveness, and hope--the things that save us, even in the most anxious times. The #1 Indie Next List Great Read for September 2020.
5/6
6. Leave the World Behind
Rumaan Alam, Ecco, $27.99, 9780062667632
A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong. An October 2020 Indie Next List Great Read.
3/2
7. The Evening and the Morning
Ken Follett, Viking, $36.00, 9780525954989
Follett's thrilling and addictive new Kingsbridge novel is a prequel to The Pillars of the Earth.
6/5
8. Jack
Marilynne Robinson, FSG, $27.00, 9780374279301
Pulitzer Prize-winner Robinson returns to the world of Gilead with Jack, the latest novel in one of the great works of contemporary American fiction.
9/3
9. Transcendent Kingdom
Yaa Gyasi, Knopf, $27.95, 9780525658184
Gyasi's stunning follow-up to Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama. A September 2020 Indie Next List Great Read.
8/7
10. All the Devils Are Here
Louise Penny, Minotaur, $28.99, 9781250145239
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache investigates a sinister plot in the City of Light.
7/7
11. The Once and Future Witches- Debut
Alix E. Harrow, Redhook, $28.00, 9780316422048
In the late 1800s, three sisters use witchcraft to change the course of history in Harrow's powerful novel of magic and the suffragette movement.
/1
12. Magic Lessons
Alice Hoffman, S&S, $27.99, 9781982108847
Hoffmans's unforgettable new novel unveils the story of Maria Owens, accused of witchcraft in Salem, and matriarch of a line of the amazing Owens women and men featured in Practical Magic and The Rules of Magic.
13/2
13. The Book of Two Ways
Jodi Picoult, Ballantine, $28.99, 9781984818355
Picoult's riveting new novel about the choices that alter the course of our lives.
10/4
14. The Lying Life of Adults
Elena Ferrante, Europa Editions, $26.00, 9781609455910
Ferrante's powerful and gripping new novel about the transition from childhood to adolescence to adulthood is a September 2020 Indie Next List Great Read.
14/7
15. Piranesi
Susanna Clarke, Bloomsbury Publishing, $27.00, 9781635575637
The intoxicating, hypnotic new novel by the bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell is a September 2020 Indie Next List Great Read.
11/5


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Hardcover Nonfiction



Bestseller List for October 21, 2020
Based on sales for the week ending October 18, 2020
For an independent bookstore store near you, call 1-888-266-5736,
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  Hardcover Nonfiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. Caste
Isabel Wilkerson, Random House, $32.00, 9780593230251
Beautifully written, original, and revealing, Caste is an eye-opening story of people and history, and a reexamination of what lies under the surface of ordinary lives and of American life today.
2/11
2. Modern Comfort Food
Ina Garten, Clarkson Potter, $35.00, 9780804187060
From cocktails to dessert, from special weekend breakfasts to quick weeknight dinners, you'll find yourself making these cozy and delicious recipes over and over again.
1/2
3. How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi, One World, $27.00, 9780525509288
Kendi's book is an essential work for anyone who wants to go beyond the awareness of racism to the next step: contributing to the formation of a just and equitable society.
8/28
4. Untamed
Glennon Doyle, The Dial Press, $28.00, 9781984801258
In Doyle's most revealing and powerful memoir yet, she explores the joy and peace we discover when we stop striving to meet the expectations of the world, and start trusting the voice deep within us.
6/32
5. Solutions and Other Problems
Allie Brosh, Gallery Books, $30.00, 9781982156947
The bestselling author of Hyperbole and a Half returns with a new collection of comedic, autobiographical, and illustrated essays. An October 2020 Indie Next List Great Read.
7/4
6. Rage
Bob Woodward, S&S, $30.00, 9781982131739
Woodward's new book is an unprecedented and intimate tour de force of new reporting on the Trump presidency facing a global pandemic, economic disaster, and racial unrest.
3/5
7. Is This Anything?
Jerry Seinfeld, S&S, $35.00, 9781982112691
The first book in 25 years from Jerry Seinfeld features his best work across five decades in comedy.
5/2
8. Ottolenghi Flavor: A Cookbook- Debut
Yotam Ottolenghi, Ixta Belfrage, Ten Speed Press, $35.00, 9780399581755
Ottolenghi teams up with Ottolenghi Test Kitchen's Ixta Belfrage to reveal how flavor is created and amplified through 100+ super-delicious, plant-based recipes.
/1
9. The 99% Invisible City
Roman Mars, Kurt Kohlstedt, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $30.00, 9780358126607
A beautifully designed guidebook to the unnoticed yet essential elements of our cities, from the creators of the wildly popular 99% Invisible podcast.
4/2
10. The Splendid and the Vile
Erik Larson, Crown, $32.00, 9780385348713
Larson's fresh and compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz is a March 2020 Indie Next List Great Read.
9/34
11. Vesper Flights
Helen MacDonald, Grove Press, $27.00, 9780802128812
Macdonald's new collection of essays is a captivating and foundational book about observation, fascination, time, memory, love, and loss and how we make sense of the world around us. A September 2020 Indie Next List Great Read.
/7
12. How to Write One Song: Loving the Things We Create and How They Love Us Back- Debut
Jeff Tweedy, Dutton, $23.00, 9780593183526
Tweedy brings readers into the intimate process of writing one song--lyrics, music, and putting it all together--and accesses the deep sense of wonder that remains at the heart of this curious, yet incredibly fulfilling, artistic act.
/1
13. Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World- Debut
Fareed Zakaria, Norton, $26.95, 9780393542134
Zakaria helps readers to begin thinking beyond the immediate effects of COVID-19.
/1
14. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants- Debut
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $35.00, 9781571311771
Updated with a new introduction from Robin Wall Kimmerer, the special edition of Braiding Sweetgrass, reissued in honor of the 40th anniversary of Milkweed Editions, celebrates the book as an object of meaning that will last the ages.
/1
15. Trust
Pete Buttigieg, Liveright, $23.95, 9781631498770
Refusing to give in to the despair that threatens our foundations, Buttigieg seeks to inspire Americans to build a powerful movement that will define all of us in the years to come.
11/2


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Mass Market



Bestseller List for October 21, 2020
Based on sales for the week ending October 18, 2020
For an independent bookstore store near you, call 1-888-266-5736,
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  Mass Market Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780441172719
1/48
2. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935
2/224
3. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
4/15
4. Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780593098233
5/5
5. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou, Ballantine, $7.99, 9780345514400
9/31
6. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcom X, Ballantine, $7.99, 9780345350688
/15
7. The Shining
Stephen King, Anchor, $8.99, 9780307743657
3/8
8. The Guardians
John Grisham, Dell, $9.99, 9780525620945
7/16
9. The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $9.99, 9780756404741
6/56
10. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $7.99, 9780553577129
/9


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Early & Middle Grade Readers



Bestseller List for October 21, 2020
Based on sales for the week ending October 18, 2020
For an independent bookstore store near you, call 1-888-266-5736,
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  Early & Middle Grade Readers  
1. Class Act
Jerry Craft, Quill Tree Books, $12.99, 9780062885500
 
2. Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Adventure
Jeff Kinney, Amulet, $14.99, 9781419749094
 
3. The One and Only Bob
Katherine Applegate, Patricia Castelao (Illus.), Harper, $18.99, 9780062991317
 
4. Skunk and Badger
Amy Timberlake, Jon Klassen (Illus.), Algonquin Young Readers, $18.95, 9781643750057
 
5. Twins
Varian Johnson, Shannon Wright (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338236132
 
6. New Kid
Jerry Craft, Harper, $12.99, 9780062691194
 
7. The One and Only Ivan
Katherine Applegate, Patricia Castelao (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780061992278
 
8. Guts
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9780545852500
 
9. Witches of Brooklyn
Sophie Escabasse, Random House Graphic, $12.99, 9780593119273
 
10. A Whale of the Wild
Rosanne Parry, Lindsay Moore (Illus.), Greenwillow Books, $17.99, 9780062995926
 
11. When Stars Are Scattered
Victoria Jamieson, Omar Mohamed, Dial Books, $12.99, 9780525553908
 
12. Smile
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $10.99, 9780545132060
 
13. Ghosts
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $10.99, 9780545540629
 
14. Charlotte's Web
E.B. White, Harper, $8.99, 9780064400558
 
15. The Witches: The Graphic Novel
Roald Dahl, Penelope Bagieu (Illus.), Scholastic, $14.99, 9781338677430
 


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Young Adult



Bestseller List for October 21, 2020
Based on sales for the week ending October 18, 2020
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  Young Adult  
1. Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780316453691
 
2. The Hate U Give
Angie Thomas, Balzer + Bray, $18.99, 9780062871350
 
3. Legendborn (An Indies Introduce Title)
Tracy Deonn, Margaret K. McElderry Books, $18.99, 9781534441606
 
4. Long Way Down: The Graphic Novel- Debut
Jason Reynolds, Danica Novgorodoff (Illus.), Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, $19.99, 9781534444959
 
5. Dear Justyce
Nic Stone, Crown Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9781984829665
 
6. Skyhunter
Marie Lu, Roaring Brook Press, $19.99, 9781250221681
 
7. Punching the Air
Ibi Zoboi, Yusef Salaam, Balzer + Bray, $19.99, 9780062996480
 
8. One of Us Is Lying
Karen M. McManus, Delacorte Press, $17.99, 9781524714680
 
9. We Were Liars
E. Lockhart, Ember, $10.99, 9780385741279
 
10. Dear Martin (An Indies Introduce Title)
Nic Stone, Ember, $9.99, 9781101939529
 
11. Clap When You Land
Elizabeth Acevedo, Quill Tree Books, $18.99, 9780062882769
 
12. The Left-Handed Booksellers of London
Garth Nix, Katherine Tegen Books, $19.99, 9780062683250
 
13. The Book Thief
Markus Zusak, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9780385754729
 
14. The Lives of Saints
Leigh Bardugo, Daniel J. Zollinger (Illus.), Imprint, $24.99, 9781250765208
 
15. They Both Die at the End
Adam Silvera, Quill Tree Books, $11.99, 9780062457806
 


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Children's Illustrated



Bestseller List for October 21, 2020
Based on sales for the week ending October 18, 2020
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  Children's Illustrated  
1. Room on the Broom Push-Pull-Slide Board Book
Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.), Dial Books, $8.99, 9780593110409
 
2. Antiracist Baby
Ibram X. Kendi, Ashley Lukashevsky (Illus.), Kokila, $8.99, 9780593110508
 
3. What We'll Build: Plans For Our Together Future
Oliver Jeffers, Philomel Books, $19.99, 9780593206751
 
4. Little Blue Truck's Halloween
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), HMH Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9780544772533
 
5. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780694003617
 
6. Gustavo, the Shy Ghost
Flavia Z. Drago, Candlewick, $16.99, 9781536211146
 
7. Bunheads
Misty Copeland, Setor Fiadzigbey (Illus.), G.P. Putnam's Sons (BYR), $17.99, 9780399547645
 
8. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, Putnam, $10.99, 9780399226908
 
9. The Snowy Day
Ezra Jack Keats, Viking Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780670012701
 
10. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $19.95, 9780060254926
 
11. Becoming a Good Creature
Sy Montgomery, Rebecca Green (Illus.), HMH Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9780358252108
 
12. Happy Halloween from The Very Busy Spider
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $12.99, 9780593097106
 
13. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Bill Martin, Eric Carle (Illus.), Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), $8.99, 9780805047905
 
14. Unicorns Are the Worst!
Alex Willan, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9781534453838
 
15. The Little Ghost Who Was a Quilt
Riel Nason, Byron Eggenschwiler (Illus.), Tundra Books, $17.99, 9780735264472
 


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Children's Series



Bestseller List for October 21, 2020
Based on sales for the week ending October 18, 2020
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  Children's Series  
1. Dog Man (hardcover)
Dav Pilkey, Graphix
 
2. Wings of Fire (hardcover and paperback)
Tui T. Sutherland, Scholastic
 
3. Who Was/Is...? (paperback)
Ellen Morgan, et al., Penguin Workshop
 
4. Harry Potter (hardcover and paperback)
J.K. Rowling, Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine Books
 
5. Elephant & Piggie (hardcover)
Mo Willems, Hyperion
 
6. Spy School (hardcover and paperback)
Stuart Gibbs, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
 
7. Magic Tree House (hardcover and paperback)
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House
 
8. Diary of a Wimpy Kid (hardcover)
Jeff Kinney, Amulet
 
9. The Trials of Apollo (hardcover and paperback)
Rick Riordan, Hyperion
 
10. The Bad Guys (hardcover and paperback)
Aaron Blabey, Scholastic
 


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Extended Paperback Fiction

Based on sales for the week ending October 18, 2020

16. Nothing to See Here
Kevin Wilson, Ecco, $16.99, 9780062913494

17. The Institute
Stephen King, Gallery Books, $19.99, 9781982110581

18. Girl, Woman, Other
Bernardine Evaristo, Grove Press/Black Cat, $17.00, 9780802156983

19. The World That We Knew
Alice Hoffman, S&S, $17.00, 9781501137587

20. Red at the Bone
Jacqueline Woodson, Riverhead Books, $16.00, 9780525535287

21. When No One Is Watching
Alyssa Cole, Morrow, $16.99, 9780062982650

22. There There
Tommy Orange, Vintage, $16.00, 9780525436140

23. The Starless Sea
Erin Morgenstern, Anchor, $16.95, 9781101971383

24. The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Heather Morris, Harper, $16.99, 9780062797155

25. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
Kim Michele Richardson, Sourcebooks Landmark, $15.99, 9781492671527

26. Lovecraft Country
Matt Ruff, Harper Perennial, $16.99, 9780062292070

27. City of Girls
Elizabeth Gilbert, Riverhead Books, $17.00, 9781594634741

28. The Fifth Season
N.K. Jemisin, Orbit, $15.99, 9780316229296

29. Walk the Wire
David Baldacci, Grand Central, $16.99, 9781538761472

30. Still Life
Louise Penny, St. Martin's, $17.99, 9780312541538

31. Shuggie Bain
Douglas Stuart, Grove Press, $17.00, 9780802148506

32. The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho, HarperOne, $16.99, 9780062315007

33. The Good Lord Bird
James McBride, Riverhead, $16.00, 9781594632785

34. The Memory Police
Yoko Ogawa, Vintage, $16.00, 9781101911815

35. The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood, Anchor, $15.95, 9780525435006

36. Grand Union
Zadie Smith, Penguin, $17.00, 9780525559016

37. The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin's Griffin, $17.99, 9781250080400

38. The Ten Thousand Doors of January
Alix E. Harrow, Redhook, $16.99, 9780316421973

39. Gideon the Ninth
Tamsyn Muir, Tordotcom, $17.99, 9781250313188

40. All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr, Scribner, $18.00, 9781501173219

41. Beach Read
Emily Henry, Berkley, $16.00, 9781984806734

42. Cilka's Journey
Heather Morris, St. Martin's Griffin, $16.99, 9781250265692

43. Disappearing Earth
Julia Phillips, Vintage, $16.95, 9780525436225

44. The Guest Book
Sarah Blake, Flatiron Books, $17.99, 9781250110275

45. The Shadow King
Maaza Mengiste, Norton, $17.95, 9780393358513

46. Pachinko
Min Jin Lee, Grand Central, $16.99, 9781455563920

47. Daisy Jones & The Six
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine, $17.00, 9781524798642

48. The Island of Sea Women
Lisa See, Scribner, $18.00, 9781501154867

49. The Alice Network
Kate Quinn, Morrow, $16.99, 9780062654199

50. Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury, S&S, $17.00, 9781451673319

Extended Paperback Nonfiction

Based on sales for the week ending October 18, 2020

16. Shade
Pete Souza, Voracious, $19.99, 9780316458214

17. The Body Keeps the Score
Bessel van der Kolk, Penguin, $19.00, 9780143127741

18. Say Nothing
Patrick Radden Keefe, Anchor, $16.95, 9780307279286

19. My Grandmother's Hands
Resmaa Menakem, Central Recovery Press, $17.95, 9781942094470

20. The Old Farmer's Almanac 2021
Old Farmer's Almanac, $8.95, 9781571988485

21. The Yellow House
Sarah M. Broom, Grove Press, $17.00, 9780802149039

22. A Woman of No Importance
Sonia Purnell, Penguin, $18.00, 9780735225312

23. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Jane Sherron de Hart, Vintage, $18.00, 9781984897831

24. Year of the Monkey
Patti Smith, Vintage, $16.00, 9781984898920

25. Know My Name
Chanel Miller, Penguin, $18.00, 9780735223721

26. Trick Mirror
Jia Tolentino, Random House, $18.00, 9780525510567

27. Life Undercover
Amaryllis Fox, Vintage, $16.95, 9780525564089

28. The Pioneers
David McCullough, S&S, $18.00, 9781501168703

29. Welcoming the Unwelcome
Pema Chödrön, Shambhala, $16.95, 9781611808681

30. Dear Girls
Ali Wong, Random House, $18.00, 9780525508854

31. All About Love
bell hooks, Morrow, $15.99, 9780060959470

32. What Unites Us
Dan Rather, Elliot Kirschner, Algonquin Books, $16.95, 9781616209940

33. Wow, No Thank You.
Samantha Irby, Vintage, $15.95, 9780525563488

34. On Tyranny
Timothy Snyder, Tim Duggan Books, $9.99, 9780804190114

35. Burnout
Emily Nagoski, Amelia Nagoski, Ballantine , $17.00, 9781984818324

36. Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?
Caitlin Doughty, Dianne Ruz (Illus.), Norton, $15.95, 9780393358490

37. The Four Agreements
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310

38. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Beacon Press, $16.00, 9780807057834

39. A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn, Harper Perennial Modern Classics, $21.99, 9780062397348

40. Erosion
Terry Tempest Williams, Picador, $18.00, 9781250758248

41. Underland
Robert Macfarlane, Norton, $17.95, 9780393358094

42. The Devil in the White City
Erik Larson, Vintage, $16.00, 9780375725609

43. White Tears/Brown Scars
Ruby Hamad, Catapult, $16.95, 9781948226745

44. Be Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi, One World, $15.99, 9780593233009

45. Three Women
Lisa Taddeo, Avid Reader Press/S&S, $17.00, 9781451642308

46. March: Book One
John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell (Illus.), Top Shelf Productions, $14.95, 9781603093002

47. The Soul of an Octopus
Sy Montgomery, Atria, $16.99, 9781451697728

48. Hillbilly Elegy
J.D. Vance, Harper, $16.99, 9780062300553

49. Decisions and Dissents of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Corey Brettschneider (Ed.), Penguin Classics, $15.00, 9780143135111

50. How to Change Your Mind
Michael Pollan, Penguin, $18.00, 9780735224155

Extended Hardcover Fiction

Based on sales for the week ending October 18, 2020

16. Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens, Putnam, $26.00, 9780735219090

17. A Deadly Education
Naomi Novik, Del Rey, $28.00, 9780593128480

18. Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Del Rey, $27.00, 9780525620785

19. The Return
Nicholas Sparks, Grand Central, $28.00, 9781538728574

20. The Midnight Library
Matt Haig, Viking, $26.00, 9780525559474

21. The Guest List
Lucy Foley, Morrow, $27.99, 9780062868930

22. Squeeze Me
Carl Hiaasen, Knopf, $28.95, 9781524733452

23. Troubles in Paradise
Elin Hilderbrand, Little, Brown, $28.00, 9780316435581

24. Snow
John Banville, Hanover Square Press, $27.99, 9781335230003

25. Black Sun
Rebecca Roanhorse, Gallery/Saga Press, $27.99, 9781534437678

26. One by One
Ruth Ware, Gallery/Scout Press, $27.99, 9781501188817

27. Monogamy
Sue Miller, Harper, $28.99, 9780062969651

28. Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell, Knopf, $26.95, 9780525657606

29. Troubled Blood
Robert Galbraith, Mulholland Books, $29.00, 9780316498937

30. Just Like You
Nick Hornby, Riverhead Books, $27.00, 9780593191385

31. American Dirt
Jeanine Cummins, Flatiron Books, $27.99, 9781250209764

32. To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
Christopher Paolini, Tor, $29.99, 9781250762849

33. The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman, Pamela Dorman Books, $26.00, 9781984880963

34. The Dutch House
Ann Patchett, Harper, $27.99, 9780062963673

35. Battle Ground
Jim Butcher, Ace, $28.00, 9780593199305

36. The City We Became
N.K. Jemisin, Orbit, $28.00, 9780316509848

37. Homeland Elegies
Ayad Akhtar, Little, Brown, $28.00, 9780316496421

38. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong, Penguin Press, $26.00, 9780525562023

39. Luster
Raven Leilani, FSG, $26.00, 9780374194321

40. A Song for the Dark Times
Ian Rankin, Little, Brown and Company, $27.00, 9780316479257

41. Such a Fun Age
Kiley Reid, Putnam, $26.00, 9780525541905

42. Invisible Girl
Lisa Jewell, Atria , $28.00, 9781982137335

43. The Exiles
Christina Baker Kline, Custom House, $27.99, 9780062356345

44. What Are You Going Through
Sigrid Nunez, Riverhead Books, $26.00, 9780593191415

45. Whale Day: And Other Poems
Billy Collins, Random House, $26.00, 9780399589751

46. The Giver of Stars
Jojo Moyes, Pamela Dorman Books, $28.00, 9780399562488

47. The Only Good Indians
Stephen Graham Jones, Gallery/Saga Press, $26.99, 9781982136451

48. Ring Shout
P. Djèlí Clark, Tor.com, $19.99, 9781250767028

49. Missionaries
Phil Klay, Penguin Press, $28.00, 9781984880659

50. The Pull of the Stars
Emma Donoghue, Little, Brown, $28.00, 9780316499019

Extended Hardcover Nonfiction

Based on sales for the week ending October 18, 2020

16. Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown
John Lithgow, Chronicle Prism, $22.95, 9781797209463

17. This Just Speaks to Me
Hoda Kotb, Putnam, $24.00, 9780593191088

18. Too Much and Never Enough
Mary L. Trump, Ph.D., S&S, $28.00, 9781982141462

19. Eat a Peach
David Chang, Gabe Ulla, Clarkson Potter, $28.00, 9781524759216

20. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Charlie Mackesy, HarperOne, $22.99, 9780062976581

21. Humans
Brandon Stanton, St. Martin's, $35.00, 9781250114297

22. Notorious RBG
Irin Carmon, Shana Knizhnik, Dey Street, $25.99, 9780062415837

23. Keep Moving
Maggie Smith, Atria/One Signal Publishers, $24.00, 9781982132071

24. Guinness World Records 2021
Guinness World Records, $28.95, 9781913484002

25. Men to Avoid in Art and Life
Nicole Tersigni, Chronicle Books, $14.95, 9781797202839

26. Breath
James Nestor, Riverhead Books, $28.00, 9780735213616

27. The Man Who Ran Washington
Peter Baker, Susan Glasser, Doubleday, $35.00, 9780385540551

28. Me and White Supremacy
Layla Saad, Sourcebooks, $25.99, 9781728209807

29. She Come By It Natural
Sarah Smarsh, Scribner, $22.00, 9781982157289

30. Culture Warlords
Talia Lavin, Hachette Books, $27.00, 9780306846434

31. The Luckiest Man
Mark Salter, S&S, $35.00, 9781982120931

32. Educated
Tara Westover, Random House, $28.00, 9780399590504

33. Just Us
Claudia Rankine, Graywolf Press, $30.00, 9781644450215

34. Think Like a Monk
Jay Shetty, S&S, $27.00, 9781982134488

35. Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates, One World, $26.00, 9780812993547

36. His Truth Is Marching On
Jon Meacham, Random House, $30.00, 9781984855022

37. What It's Like to Be a Bird
David Allen Sibley, Knopf, $35.00, 9780307957894

38. Eleanor
David Michaelis, S&S, $35.00, 9781439192016

39. Disloyal
Michael Cohen, Skyhorse, $32.50, 9781510764699

40. American Crisis
Andrew Cuomo, Crown, $30.00, 9780593239261

41. His Very Best
Jonathan Alter, S&S, $37.50, 9781501125485

42. Undaunted
John O. Brennan, Celadon Books, $30.00, 9781250241771

43. Killing Crazy Horse
Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard, Holt, $30.00, 9781627797047

44. Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat
Samin Nosrat, Wendy MacNaughton (Illus.), S&S, $35.00, 9781476753836

45. Didn't See That Coming
Rachel Hollis, Dey Street Books, $20.00, 9780063010529

46. Agent Sonya
Ben Macintyre, Crown, $28.00, 9780593136300

47. Becoming
Michelle Obama, Crown, $32.50, 9781524763138

48. Everything Beautiful in Its Time
Jenna Bush Hager, Morrow, $26.99, 9780062960627

49. The Meaning of Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey, Andy Cohen Books, $29.99, 9781250164681

50. Pocket RBG Wisdom
Hardie Grant Books, Hardie Grant, $9.99, 9781784882877

Extended Mass Market

Based on sales for the week ending October 18, 2020

11. The Stand
Stephen King, Anchor, $9.99, 9780307743688

12. Lord of the Flies
William Golding, Perigee, $11.00, 9780399501487

13. One Good Deed
David Baldacci, Grand Central, $9.99, 9781538750544

14. The Outsider
Stephen King, Pocket, $10.99, 9781501180996

15. American Gods
Neil Gaiman, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062572110

16. The Wise Man's Fear
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $9.99, 9780756407919

17. Criss Cross
James Patterson, Grand Central, $9.99, 9781538715406

18. Lethal Agent
Vince Flynn, Kyle Mills, Pocket, $9.99, 9781501190636

19. Blue Moon
Lee Child, Dell, $9.99, 9780399593567

20. Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Laurel Leaf, $7.99, 9780440180296

21. 'Salem's Lot
Stephen King, Anchor , $8.99, 9780307743671

22. Final Option
Clive Cussler, Boyd Morrison, Putnam, $9.99, 9780525541837

23. Good Omens
Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062836977

24. The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488

25. Tom Clancy Code of Honor
Marc Cameron, Berkley, $9.99, 9780525541738

26. Women Who Run With the Wolves
Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ballantine, $8.99, 9780345409874

27. The Last Widow
Karin Slaughter, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062858894

28. Outlander
Diana Gabaldon, Dell, $9.99, 9780553393699

29. Nine Perfect Strangers
Liane Moriarty, Flatiron Books, $9.99, 9781250755834

30. Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $8.99, 9781250318541

31. The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin, Ace, $9.99, 9780441478125

32. Carrie
Stephen King, Anchor, $7.99, 9780307743664

33. Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck, Penguin, $12.00, 9780140177398

34. The Last Wish
Andrzej Sapkowski, Orbit, $8.99, 9780316029186

35. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey, Signet, $9.99, 9780451163967

36. Kiss the Girls and Make Them Cry
Mary Higgins Clark, Pocket, $8.99, 9781501171772

37. The Last Odyssey
James Rollins, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062892928

38. The Girl Who Lived Twice
David Lagercrantz, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, $9.99, 9780593082522

39. Foundation
Isaac Asimov, Spectra, $7.99, 9780553293357

40. Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin, Vintage, $7.99, 9780345806543

41. The Martian Chronicles
Ray Bradbury, S&S, $7.99, 9781451678192

42. The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $9.99, 9780765365279

43. Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng, Penguin, $9.99, 9780143135661

44. The Reckoning
John Grisham, Dell, $9.99, 9780525620938

45. The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345534835

46. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $7.99, 9780345391803

47. Outfox
Sandra Brown, Grand Central, $9.99, 9781455572205

48. Winter in Paradise
Elin Hilderbrand, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316435529

49. Still Life
Louise Penny, St. Martin's, $7.99, 9781250068736

50. A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $9.99, 9780553593716

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