Ernest Cline is back with Ready Player Two, his follow-up to Ready Player One, and readers were ready to take it to the top of the Apple Books store's bestseller list, where it edged out Barack Obama's A Promised Land for the #1 spot. From there through #9, it was big-name bestsellers all the way down—Patterson, Sparks, Roberts, Baldacci, Connelly, Coben, Cornwell—with Denise Grover Swank's self-published Buried in Secrets rounding out the top ten.

Apple Books US Bestseller List - 11/29/20 - Paid Books
Rank, Book Title by Author Name, ISBN, Publisher

1. Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline - 9781524761356 - (Random House Publishing Group)
2. A Promised Land by Barack Obama - 9781524763183 - (Crown)
3. Deadly Cross by James Patterson - 9780316497992 - (Little, Brown and Company)
4. The Return by Nicholas Sparks - 9781538728567 - (Grand Central Publishing)
5. The Awakening by Nora Roberts - 9781250272607 - (St. Martin's Publishing Group)
6. Daylight by David Baldacci - 9781538761687 - (Grand Central Publishing)
7. The Law of Innocence by Michael Connelly - 9780316498029 - (Little, Brown and Company)
8. The Innocent by Harlan Coben - 9781101146736 - (Penguin Publishing Group)
9. War Lord by Bernard Cornwell - 9780062563255 - (Harper)
10. Buried in Secrets by Denise Grover Swank - 9781940562391 - (DGS)
11. The Silent Wife by Karin Slaughter - 9780062858917 - (William Morrow)
12. A Time for Mercy by John Grisham - 9780385545976 - (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group)
13. Unreported Truths About Covid-19 and Lockdowns by Alex Berenson - No ISBN Available - (Blue Deep, Inc.)
14. Man in Love by Laurelin Paige - 9781942835905 - (Paige Press LLC)
15. The Sentinel by Andrew Child and Lee Child - 9781984818478 - (Random House Publishing Group)
16. Tom Clancy Shadow of the Dragon by Marc Cameron - 9780593188118 - (Penguin Publishing Group)
17. The Things We Do for Love by Kristin Hannah - 9780307548023 - (Random House Publishing Group)
18. A Will and a Way by Nora Roberts - 9781488058257 - (Silhouette)
19. Archangel's Sun by Nalini Singh - 9780593198131 - (Penguin Publishing Group)
20. The Alice Network by Kate Quinn - 9780062654205 - (William Morrow Paperbacks)