The good direction to keep yourNew Year ’s resolutionto read more is by choosingbooksyou wo n’t be able to put down . And the best stead to find those is probably on a good vendor list .
researcher at Stacker pulled data fromThe New York Timesbest trafficker listing on Barnes and Noble ’s website to compile a breakdown of 2020 ’s overall well - selling books in five different categories : hardcover fable , hardback nonfictional prose , paper-back book fiction , paperbacked nonfiction , and “ Advice , How - To , and Miscellaneous . ”
When it comes to fiction , well - establish thriller writers reign supreme : novels by John Grisham , David Baldacci , Lee Child , and Michael Connelly all rank in the top eight for hardcover fabrication . taradiddle with less crime and more personal drama — like the latest works from Danielle Steel and Nicholas Sparks — are sentence - test favorites , too .
Nonfiction readers seem to go for memoirs above all else . Barack Obama’sA Promised Landtook first lieu on the hardback nonfiction list , edging out Michelle Obama’sBecomingby just one spot . They were n’t the only political figures to make the cut ; memoirs byRuth Bader Ginsburgand Kamala Harris land on the paperback nonfiction list . Dolly Parton , the lateAlex Trebek , and several other dear entertainers also had well - selling autobiography .
But it ’s not only famous person tell - alls and high - stakes thriller that proved popular last twelvemonth . Pulitzer Prize - win diary keeper Isabel Wilkerson made two lists : her 2020 bookCastecame in third on the hardcover nonfiction list , and her 2010 work about the Great Migration — The Warmth of Other Suns — took the seventh spot on the paperback nonfiction listing .
If your New Year ’s resolutions are less about reading and more about eat , you might still find a utilitarian bulk or two . Ina Garten ’s newestrecipecollection , Modern Comfort Food , made the motley list . So did the officialDungeons & Dragonscookbook , if medieval comfort food is more your speed .
See 2020 ’s top eight bestsellers in all five category below , viaNewsweek .
Hardcover Fiction
Hardcover Nonfiction
Paperback Fiction
Paperback Nonfiction
Advice, How-To, and Miscellaneous
[ h / tNewsweek ]
