12/5/2021
| fiction | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the judge's list | 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 | mercy | David Baldacci | The fourth book in the Atlee Pine series. Atlee discovers her twin sister survived an abduction at the age of 6. |
| 3 | the stranger in the lifeboat | Mitch Albom | After a ship explodes, 10 people struggling to survive pull a man who claims to be the Lord out of the sea. |
| 4 | the wish | Nicholas Sparks | Maggie Dawes, a renowned travel photographer, struggles with a medical diagnosis over Christmas. |
| 5 | the lincoln highway | 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 | the dark hours | Michael Connelly | A death on New Year’s Eve, an unsolved murder and a hunt for serial rapists bring Bosch and Ballard back together. |
| 7 | better off dead | Lee Child and Andrew Child | The 26th book in the Jack Reacher series. Reacher helps an F.B.I. agent look for her missing brother and takes on a foe named Dendoncker. |
| 8 | game on | Janet Evanovich | The 28th book in the Stephanie Plum series. Diesel and Stephanie track the international computer hacker Oswald Wednesday. |
| 9 | clive cussler's the devil's sea | Dirk Cussler | Dirk Pitt’s latest adventure involves a missing Buddhist artifact, a failed hypersonic missile and a hijacked ship. |
| 10 | cloud cuckoo land | Anthony Doerr | An interconnected cast of dreamers and outsiders are in dangerous and disparate settings past, present and future. |
| 11 | never | Ken Follett | Tensions escalate around the globe as President Pauline Green works to prevent a world war. |
| 12 | billy summers | Stephen King | A killer for hire who only takes out bad guys seeks redemption as he does one final job. |
| 13 | tom clancy: chain of command | Marc Cameron | The 21st book in the Jack Ryan series. A shadowy billionaire plans to kidnap the first lady to get President Jack Ryan out of his way. |
| 14 | the midnight library | 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. |
| 15 | the last thing he told me | Laura Dave | Hannah Hall discovers truths about her missing husband and bonds with his daughter from a previous relationship. |
| nonfiction | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the 1619 project | edited 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. |
| 2 | all american christmas | Rachel Campos-Duffy and Sean Duffy | A collection of holiday memories from members of the staff of Fox News. |
| 3 | will | Will Smith with Mark Manson | The actor, producer and musician tells his life story and lessons he learned along the way. |
| 4 | betrayal | Jonathan Karl | The ABC News' chief Washington correspondent gives an account of the end of the Trump presidency. |
| 5 | the lyrics: 1956 to the present | Paul McCartney | A two-volume celebration of 154 songs, with handwritten texts, paintings and photographs from the songwriter’s archives. |
| 6 | the storyteller | Dave Grohl | A memoir by the musician known for his work with Foo Fighters and Nirvana. |
| 7 | the real anthony fauci | Robert F. Kennedy Jr | The anti-vaccine advocate gives his take on the chief medical advisor to the president. |
| 8 | the president and the freedom fighter | Brian Kilmeade | The Fox News host gives an account of the relationship between Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. |
| 9 | the dawn of everything | David Graeber and David Wengrow | A reinvestigation of social evolution and suggestions for new ways of organizing society. |
| 10 | welcome to dunder mifflin | Brian Baumgartner and Ben Silverman | An oral history of the TV series “The Office” by one of its stars and one of its producers. |
| 11 | taste | Stanley Tucci | The award-winning actor reflects on his career, Italian-American heritage, meals and mishaps. |
| 12 | renegades | Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen | Conversations between the 44th president and the multiple award-winning musician on a range of topics. |
| 13 | the beatles: get back | the Beatles | The story of the making of the band’s final album, gathered from transcripts of their conversations. |
| 14 | going there | Katie Couric | The former anchor of the “CBS Evening News” and “Today” describes some of the personal and professional challenges she faced. |
| 15 | immune | Philipp Dettmer | The founder of the YouTube channel Kurzgesagt gives an overview of elements of the body’s immune system. |