The week’s bestselling books, Nov. 30

Hardcover fiction

1. Correspondent Virginia Evans (Crown: $28) She spends her life writing letters and remembering her painful past.

2. Sulfur by Callie Hart (Forever: $33) This deluxe limited edition continues the fantasy adventure begun in Quicksilver.

3. The heart of a lover Lily King (Grove Press: $28) A woman reflects on a teenage love triangle and its consequences.

4. What can we know? Ian McEwan (Knopf: $30) A genre-bending love story about people and the words they leave behind.

5. Queen Esther John Irving (Simon & Schuster: $30) The writer returns to his best-selling book, The Cider House Rules.

6. The loneliness of Sonya and Sunny Kiran Desai (Hogarth: $32) The destinies of two young people intersect and diverge in different continents and years.

7. Audition Katie Kitamura (Riverhead Books: $28) The seasoned actress grapples with the varied roles she plays in her personal life.

8. Shadow ticket Thomas Pynchon (Penguin Press: $30) Private Eye, 1932. Milwaukee is hired to find a missing dairy heiress.

9. Black wolf Louise Penny (Minotaur Books: $30) The latest mystery in the Armand Gamache series.

10. Dog Show Billy Collins, Pamela Stiebel (illustrator) (Random House: $20) The former American poet laureate captures the essence of dogs in a book of poetry that includes watercolor portraits of dogs.

Nonfiction Hardcover

1. 1929 Andrew Ross Sorkin (Viking: $35) An examination of the most infamous stock market crash in history.

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

3. Nobody's Girl Virginia Roberts Giuffre (Knopf: $35) A posthumous memoir by Jeffrey Epstein and his most outspoken victim, Ghislaine Maxwell.

4. Something from nothing Alison Roman (Clarkson Potter: $38). Over 100 recipes to make the most of a well-stocked pantry.

5. Uncool Cameron Crowe (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster: $35) The director recounts his experiences as a teenage music journalist.

6. Lessons from cats for surviving fascism Stuart Reynolds (Grand Central Publishing: $13). A guide to using cat wisdom in the face of authoritarian nonsense.

7. Always remember Charlie McKee (A Penguin's Life: $27). Return to the world of “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse.”

8. Book of Lives Margaret Atwood (Doubleday: $35) The author of The Handmaid's Tale tells her story.

9. Good deeds By Samin Nosrat (Random House: $45) Celebrity chef shares 125 carefully tested recipes.

10. “Let them” theory Mel Robbins (Hay House: $30) How to Stop Wasting Energy on Things You Can't Control.

Paperback Fiction

1. On the calculation of volume (Book III) by Solvej Balle (New Destinations: $16)

2. Project “Hail Mary” Andy Weir (Ballantyne: $22)

3.Hamnet Maggie O'Farrell (vintage: $19)

4. Martyr! Kaveh Akbar (Vintage: $18)

5. I, who have never known a man Jacqueline Harpman (Transit Books: $17)

6. Frozen River Ariel Lawon (Vintage: $18)

7. Surprisingly colorful creatures Shelby Van Pelt (Ecco: $20)

8. On the calculation of volume (Book I) Solvay Balle, Barbara J. Haveland (translator) (New Directions: US$16)

9. The Princess Bride William Goldman (Harper Perennial: $22)

10. Tomorrow, tomorrow and tomorrow Gabriel Zevin (vintage: $19)

Paperback Nonfiction

1. The fight against oligarchy Senator Bernie Sanders (Crown: $15)

2. The artist's path Julia Cameron (Tarcher Perigee: $24)

3. White Album Joan Didion (Farrar, Straus and Giroux: $18)

4. Sweet grass weaving Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed editions: $22)

5. Just kids Patti Smith (Ecco: $19)

6. The most humane Adam Nimoy (Chicago Review Press: $20)

7. Art thief Michael Finkel (vintage: $18)

8. All about love on Bell Hooks (Morrow: $17)

9. Best American Essays of 2025. Jia Tolentino and Kim Dana Kupperman (editors) (Mariner Books: $19)

10. Meditations for mortals Oliver Berkman (Picador: $19)

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