The weeks bestselling books, Dec. 7

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1.The Correspondent by Virginia Evans (Crown: $28) A lifelong letter writer reckons with a painful past.

2.Heart the Lover by Lily King (Grove Press: $28) A woman reflects on a youthful love triangle and its consequences.

3.What We Can Know by Ian McEwan (Knopf: $30) A genre-bending love story about people and the words they leave behind.

4.Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon (Penguin Press: $30) A private eye in 1932 Milwaukee is hired to find a missing dairy heiress.

5.Dog Show by Billy Collins, Pamela Sztybel (illustrator) (Random House: $20) The former U.S.

poet laureate captures the essence of dogs in a collection of poems that includes watercolor canine portraits.6.The Widow by John Grisham (Doubleday: $32) A small-time lawyer accused of murder races to find the real killer to clear his name.7.

Katabasis by R.F.

Kuang (Harper Voyager: $35) The deluxe limited edition of a dark academia fantasy about two rival graduate students’ descent into hell.8.The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai (Hogarth: $32) The fates of two young people intersect and diverge across continents and years.

9.The Strength of the Few by James Islington (S&S/Saga Press: $34) Book 2 of fantasy series the Hierarchy Quartet.10.

The Proving Ground by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown & Co.: $32) The Lincoln Lawyer is back with a case against an AI company for its role in a girl’s killing.…1.Bread of Angels by Patti Smith (Random House: $30) A new memoir from the legendary writer and artist.

2.1929 by Andrew Ross Sorkin (Viking: $35) An exploration of the most infamous stock market crash in history.

3.One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad (Knopf: $28) Reckoning with what it means to live in a West that betrays its fundamental values.4.

The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins (Hay House: $30) How to stop wasting energy on things you can’t control.5.

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