Michael Connelly’s latest, Ree Drummond’s ‘Pioneer Woman Cooks’ top best-sellers lists

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HARDCOVER FICTION
  1. “The Night Fire” by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown)
  2. “The Guardians” by John Grisham (Doubleday)
  3. “The Deserter” by Demille/DeMille (Simon & Schuster)
  4. “The 19th Christmas” by James Patterson and Mixine Paetro (Little, Brown)
  5. “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy (HarperOne)
  6. “The Water Dancer” by Ta-Nehisi Coates (One World)
  7. “Agent Running in the Field” by John le Carre (Viking)
  8. “The Institute” by Stephen King (Scribner)
  9. “The Dutch House” by Ann Patchett (Harper)
  10. “The Burning White” by Brent Weeks (Orbit)
  11. “The Testaments” by Margaret Atwood (Nan A. Talese)
  12. “To the Land of Long Lost Friends” by Alexander McCall Smith (Pantheon)
  13. “Olive, Again” by Elizabeth Strout (Random House)
  14. “Bloody Genius” by John Sandford (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
  15. “Ninth House” by Leigh Bardugo (Flatiron Books)
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
  1. “The Pioneer Woman Cooks” by Ree Drummond (Morrow)
  2. “Me” by Elton John (Holt)
  3. “Catch and Kill” by Ronan Farrow (Little, Brown)
  4. “Bining with Babish” by Andrew Rea (HMH)
  5. “Trump vs. China” by Newt Gingrich (Center Street)
  6. “The Way I Heard It” by Mike Rowe (Gallery)
  7. “I Really Needed This Today” by Hoda Kolb (Putnam)
  8. “Three Days at the Brink” by Bret Baier (Morrow)
  9. “Nothing Fancy” by Alison Roman (Clarkson Potter)
  10. “Blowout” by Rachel Maddow (Crown Publishing)
  11. “Dumpty” by John Lithglow (Chronicle Prism)
  12. “Talking to Strangers” by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown)
  13. “Food: What the Heck Should I Cook? by Mark Hyman (Little, Brown, Spark)
  14. “The Book of Gutsy Women” by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton (Simon & Schuster)
  15. “The Official Bright Line Eating Cookbook” by Susan Peirce Thompson (Hay House)
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