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Top 10 Overall

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Rank	Last Week	Weeks on List	Bibliographical Information (Click title for review)	Pub Date	Units 2020 YTD
1	-	1	A Time for Mercy John Grisham, Author Doubleday Books, $29.95 (480) 978-0-385-54596-9 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 1 Initial Date 10/26/2020 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 10/26/2020 Average Rank 1.00 [details] Sales history for A Time for Mercy date, rank 10/26/2020, 1 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Oct 2020 UNITS SOLD: 87,914 YTD: 87,914	Oct 2020	87,914 87,914
2	4	7	Dog Man: Grime and Punishment: From the Creator of Captain Underpants (Dog Man #9), Volume 9 Dav Pilkey, Author, Dav Pilkey, Illustrator Graphix, $12.99 (240) 978-1-338-53562-4 Last rank 2 Initial Rank 1 Initial Date 09/14/2020 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 09/14/2020 Average Rank 1.64 [details] Sales history for Dog Man: Grime and Punishment: From the Creator of Captain Underpants (Dog Man #9), Volume 9 date, rank 09/14/2020, 1 09/21/2020, 2 09/28/2020, 2 10/05/2020, 2 10/12/2020, 2 10/19/2020, 4 10/26/2020, 2 LAST WEEK: 4 WEEKS ON LIST: 7 PUB DATE: Sep 2020 UNITS SOLD: 58,678 YTD: 698,076	Sep 2020	58,678 698,076
3	1	2	Modern Comfort Food Ina Garten, Author Clarkson Potter Publishers, $35.00 (272) 978-0-8041-8706-0 Last rank 1 Initial Rank 1 Initial Date 10/19/2020 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 10/19/2020 Average Rank 1.50 [details] Sales history for Modern Comfort Food date, rank 10/19/2020, 1 10/26/2020, 3 LAST WEEK: 1 WEEKS ON LIST: 2 PUB DATE: Oct 2020 UNITS SOLD: 53,500 YTD: 183,647	Oct 2020	53,500 183,647
4	5	3	The Return Nicholas Sparks, Author Grand Central Publishing, $28.00 (368) 978-1-5387-2857-4 Last rank 1 Initial Rank 1 Initial Date 10/12/2020 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 10/12/2020 Average Rank 2.33 [details] Sales history for The Return date, rank 10/12/2020, 1 10/19/2020, 5 10/26/2020, 4 LAST WEEK: 5 WEEKS ON LIST: 3 PUB DATE: Sep 2020 UNITS SOLD: 40,003 YTD: 195,808	Sep 2020	40,003 195,808
5	-	1	This Just Speaks to Me: Words to Live by Every Day Hoda Kotb, Author G.P. Putnam's Sons, $24.00 (384) 978-0-593-19108-8 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 5 Initial Date 10/26/2020 Highest Rank 2 Highest Rank Date 10/26/2020 Average Rank 3.50 [details] Sales history for This Just Speaks to Me: Words to Live by Every Day date, rank 10/26/2020, 5 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Oct 2020 UNITS SOLD: 36,110 YTD: 36,110	Oct 2020	36,110 36,110
6	12	6	Room on the Broom Julia Donaldson, Author, Axel Scheffler, Illustrator Puffin Books, $6.99 (32) 978-0-14-250112-2 Last rank 3 Initial Rank 7 Initial Date 09/17/2012 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 10/01/2012 Average Rank 3.71 [details] Sales history for Room on the Broom date, rank 10/26/2020, 6 LAST WEEK: 12 WEEKS ON LIST: 6 PUB DATE: Aug 2003 UNITS SOLD: 31,158 YTD: 131,450	Aug 2003	31,158 131,450
7	7	3	The Happy in a Hurry Cookbook: 101 Fast and Easy New Recipes That Taste Like Home Steve Doocy, Author, Kathy Doocy, Author William Morrow & Company, $29.99 (256) 978-0-06-296839-5 Last rank 3 Initial Rank 4 Initial Date 10/12/2020 Highest Rank 2 Highest Rank Date 10/12/2020 Average Rank 4.33 [details] Sales history for The Happy in a Hurry Cookbook: 101 Fast and Easy New Recipes That Taste Like Home date, rank 10/12/2020, 4 10/19/2020, 7 10/26/2020, 7 LAST WEEK: 7 WEEKS ON LIST: 3 PUB DATE: Sep 2020 UNITS SOLD: 31,080 YTD: 110,005	Sep 2020	31,080 110,005
8	13	11	Midnight Sun Stephenie Meyer, Author Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $27.99 (672) 978-0-316-70704-6 Last rank 1 Initial Rank 1 Initial Date 08/17/2020 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 08/17/2020 Average Rank 3.10 [details] Sales history for Midnight Sun date, rank 08/17/2020, 1 08/24/2020, 1 08/31/2020, 1 09/07/2020, 1 09/14/2020, 4 09/21/2020, 3 09/28/2020, 9 10/05/2020, 6 10/12/2020, 10 10/26/2020, 8 LAST WEEK: 13 WEEKS ON LIST: 11 PUB DATE: Aug 2020 UNITS SOLD: 24,633 YTD: 1,033,020	Aug 2020	24,633 1,033,020
9	3	2	The Tower of Nero (Trials of Apollo, the Book Five) Rick Riordan, Author Disney-Hyperion, $19.99 (448) 978-1-4847-4645-5 Last rank 1 Initial Rank 3 Initial Date 10/19/2020 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 10/19/2020 Average Rank 4.00 [details] Sales history for The Tower of Nero (Trials of Apollo, the Book Five) date, rank 10/19/2020, 3 10/26/2020, 9 LAST WEEK: 3 WEEKS ON LIST: 2 PUB DATE: Oct 2020 UNITS SOLD: 20,808 YTD: 69,589	Oct 2020	20,808 69,589
10	18	7	Little Blue Truck's Halloween Alice Schertle, Author, Jill McElmurry, Illustrator HMH, $12.99 (16) 978-0-544-77253-3 Last rank 4 Initial Rank 13 Initial Date 07/18/2016 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 09/19/2016 Average Rank 4.00 [details] Sales history for Little Blue Truck's Halloween date, rank 09/19/2016, 8 09/26/2016, 5 10/03/2016, 7 10/10/2016, 8 10/26/2020, 10 LAST WEEK: 18 WEEKS ON LIST: 7 PUB DATE: Jul 2016 UNITS SOLD: 19,235 YTD: 108,740	Jul 2016	19,235 108,740

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Note: Some print unit sales volume for this week (w/e 10-17-20) was estimated due to late retailer feeds.

NPD BookScan, week 42 of 2020 data through 10/17/2020; PW Issue of October 26, 2020