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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	2	A Promised Land Barack Obama, Author Crown Publishing Group (NY), $45.00 (768) 978-1-5247-6316-9 Last rank 1 Initial Rank 1 Initial Date 11/30/2020 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 11/30/2020 Average Rank 1.00 [details] Sales history for A Promised Land date, rank 11/30/2020, 1 12/02/2020, 1 12/07/2020, 1 LAST WEEK: 1 WEEKS ON LIST: 2 PUB DATE: Nov 2020 UNITS SOLD: 409,922 YTD: 1,244,699	Nov 2020	409,922 1,244,699
2	-	1	Ready Player Two Ernest Cline, Author Ballantine Books, $28.99 (384) 978-1-5247-6133-2 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 2 Initial Date 12/02/2020 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 12/02/2020 Average Rank 1.50 [details] Sales history for Ready Player Two date, rank 12/02/2020, 2 12/07/2020, 2 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Nov 2020 UNITS SOLD: 99,119 YTD: 99,119	Nov 2020	99,119 99,119
3	3	5	Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 15 Jeff Kinney, Author Amulet Books, $14.99 (224) 978-1-4197-4868-4 Last rank 3 Initial Rank 1 Initial Date 11/09/2020 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 11/09/2020 Average Rank 1.60 [details] Sales history for Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 15 date, rank 11/09/2020, 1 11/16/2020, 1 11/23/2020, 1 11/30/2020, 3 12/02/2020, 3 12/07/2020, 3 LAST WEEK: 3 WEEKS ON LIST: 5 PUB DATE: Oct 2020 UNITS SOLD: 83,232 YTD: 580,901	Oct 2020	83,232 580,901
4	11	13	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 11 Initial Rank 1 Initial Date 09/14/2020 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 09/14/2020 Average Rank 2.38 [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 11/02/2020, 2 11/09/2020, 4 11/16/2020, 3 11/23/2020, 3 11/30/2020, 10 12/02/2020, 4 12/07/2020, 4 LAST WEEK: 11 WEEKS ON LIST: 13 PUB DATE: Sep 2020 UNITS SOLD: 55,029 YTD: 970,796	Sep 2020	55,029 970,796
5	7	6	Greenlights Matthew McConaughey, Author Crown Publishing Group (NY), $30.00 (304) 978-0-593-13913-4 Last rank 4 Initial Rank 1 Initial Date 11/02/2020 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 11/02/2020 Average Rank 3.07 [details] Sales history for Greenlights date, rank 11/02/2020, 1 11/09/2020, 3 11/09/2020, 1 11/23/2020, 6 11/30/2020, 6 12/02/2020, 5 12/07/2020, 5 LAST WEEK: 7 WEEKS ON LIST: 6 PUB DATE: Oct 2020 UNITS SOLD: 46,825 YTD: 300,695	Oct 2020	46,825 300,695
6	-	1	Deadly Cross James Patterson, Author Little Brown and Company, $29.00 (416) 978-0-316-42025-9 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 6 Initial Date 12/02/2020 Highest Rank 2 Highest Rank Date 12/02/2020 Average Rank 4.00 [details] Sales history for Deadly Cross date, rank 12/02/2020, 6 12/07/2020, 6 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Nov 2020 UNITS SOLD: 42,100 YTD: 42,100	Nov 2020	42,100 42,100
7	-	1	Disney 5-Minute Christmas Stories Disney Storybook Artists, Author Disney Press, $12.99 (192) 978-1-4847-2741-6 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 1 Initial Date 11/21/2016 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 11/21/2016 Average Rank 11.82 [details] Sales history for Disney 5-Minute Christmas Stories date, rank 12/09/2019, 5 12/02/2020, 7 12/07/2020, 7 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Sep 2016 UNITS SOLD: 41,901 YTD: 60,410	Sep 2016	41,901 60,410
8	-	2	The Monster at the End of This Book (Sesame Street) Jon Stone, Author, Michael Smollin, Illustrator Golden Books, $4.99 (24) 978-0-307-01085-8 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 5 Initial Date 11/16/2020 Highest Rank 5 Highest Rank Date 11/16/2020 Average Rank 7.00 [details] Sales history for The Monster at the End of This Book (Sesame Street) date, rank 12/02/2020, 8 12/07/2020, 8 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 2 PUB DATE: Dec 1999 UNITS SOLD: 37,746 YTD: 143,599	Dec 1999	37,746 143,599
9	-	1	5-Minute Frozen Disney Book Group, Author, Disney Storybook Art Team, Illustrator Disney Press, $12.99 (192) 978-1-368-04195-9 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 10 Initial Date 12/02/2019 Highest Rank 7 Highest Rank Date 12/09/2019 Average Rank 11.67 [details] Sales history for 5-Minute Frozen date, rank 12/02/2020, 9 12/07/2020, 9 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Oct 2019 UNITS SOLD: 33,313 YTD: 124,267	Oct 2019	33,313 124,267
10	15	3	The Ickabog J. K. Rowling, Author Scholastic Inc., $26.99 (304) 978-1-338-73287-0 Last rank 15 Initial Rank 8 Initial Date 11/23/2020 Highest Rank 3 Highest Rank Date 11/23/2020 Average Rank 7.00 [details] Sales history for The Ickabog date, rank 11/23/2020, 8 12/02/2020, 10 12/07/2020, 10 LAST WEEK: 15 WEEKS ON LIST: 3 PUB DATE: Nov 2020 UNITS SOLD: 33,039 YTD: 101,488	Nov 2020	33,039 101,488

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NPD BookScan, week 48 of 2020 data through 11/28/2020; PW Issue of December 7, 2020