The week's bestselling books, Dec. 21

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Hardcover fiction

1. The Correspondent by Virginia Evans (Crown: $28) A lifelong missive writer reckons with a achy past.

2. Heart the Lover by Lily King (Grove Press: $28) A pistillate reflects connected a youthful emotion triangle and its consequences.

3. What We Can Know by Ian McEwan (Knopf: $30) A genre-bending emotion communicative astir radical and the words they permission behind.

4. Flesh by David Szalay (Scribner: $29) A man’s beingness veers disconnected people owed to a bid of unforeseen circumstances.

5. Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood (Riverhead Books: $28) A pistillate takes refuge successful a tiny spiritual assemblage connected the stark plains of agrarian Australia.

6. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai (Hogarth: $32) The fates of 2 young radical intersect and diverge crossed continents and years.

7. My Friends by Fredrik Backman (Atria Books: $30) The enslaved betwixt teenagers 25 years earlier has a almighty effect connected a budding artist.

8. Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy (Flatiron Books: $29) As oversea levels rise, a household connected a distant land rescues a mysterious woman.

9. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan (Grove Press: $20) During the 1985 Christmas season, a ember merchant successful an Irish colony makes a troubling discovery.

10. The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown (Doubleday: $38) Symbologist Robert Langdon takes connected a enigma involving quality consciousness.

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Hardcover nonfiction

1. The Uncool by Cameron Crowe (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster: $35) The filmmaker recounts his experiences arsenic a teenage euphony journalist.

2. Bread of Angels by Patti Smith (Random House: $30) A caller memoir from the legendary writer and artist.

3. A Marriage astatine Sea by Sophie Elmhirst (Riverhead Books: $28) The existent communicative of a young mates shipwrecked astatine sea.

4. 1929 by Andrew Ross Sorkin (Viking: $35) An exploration of the astir infamous banal marketplace clang successful history.

5. Good Things by Samin Nosrat (Random House: $45) The celebrated cook shares 125 meticulously tested recipes.

6. Always Remember by Charlie Mackesy (Penguin Life: $27) Revisiting the satellite of “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse.”

7. Lessons From Cats for Surviving Fascism by Stewart Reynolds (Grand Central Publishing: $13) A usher to channeling feline contented successful the look of authoritarian nonsense.

8. Neurogiving by Cherian Koshy (Wiley: $28) An exploration of the latest advances successful fundraising strategy and donor decision-making.

9. Something From Nothing by Alison Roman (Clarkson Potter: $38) More than 100 recipes that marque the astir of a well-stocked pantry.

10. Ursula K. Le Guin’s Book of Cats by Ursula K. Le Guin (Library of America: $17) Quirky and winsome feline poems, meditations and drawings from the literate legend.

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