The Country Bookshop's Best-Sellers for 2020

2. American Dirt, by Jeanine Cummins (Macmillan $27.99)

3. Big Lies in a Small Town, by Diane Chamberlain (Macmillan $27.99)

4. Camino Winds, by John Grisham (Random House $28.95)

5. Where the Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens (Penguin Book Group $26)

6. The Exiles, by Christina Baker Kline (Harper Collins $27.99)

7. Migrations, by Charlotte McConaghy (Macmillan $26.99)

8. A Time for Mercy, by John Grisham (Random House $29.95)

9. The Dutch House, by Ann Patchett (Harper Collins $27.99)

10. A Good Neighborhood, by Therese Ann Fowler (Macmillan $28.99)

Hardcover Nonfiction

1. Everything Beautiful in Its Time: Seasons of Love and Loss, by Jenna Bush Hager (Harper Collins $26.99)

2. Live in Love: Growing Together Through Life’s Changes, by Lauren Akins (Random House $28)

3. The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Blitz, by Erik Larson (Random House $32)

4. A Promised Land, by Barack Obama (Random House $45)

5. How to be an Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi (Random House $27)

6. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, by Charlie Mackesy (Harper Collins $22.99)

7. House of Kennedy, by James Patterson (Hachette Book Group $29)

8. Carthage Police Chief Bunn Cameron Murdered, by John S. Frye (John S. Frye $20)

9. Untamed, by Glennon Doyle (Random House $28)

10. Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy, by David Zucchino (Atlantic Monthly Press $28)

Paperback Fiction

1. Feels Like Falling by Kristy Woodson Harvey (Simon and Schuster $16.99)

2. A Woman is No Man, by Etaf Rum (Harper Collins $16.99)

3. Overstory, by Richard Powers (W.W. Norton $18.95)

4. The Only Woman in the Room, by Marie Benedict (Sourcebooks $16.99)

5. Little Fires Everywhere, by Celeste Ng (Penguin Book Group $17)

6. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, by Kim Michele Richardson (Sourcebooks $15.99)

7. A Gentleman in Moscow, by Amor Towles (Penguin Book Group $17)

8. This Tender Land, by William Kent Krueger (Simon and Schuster $17)

9. The Tattooist of Auschwitz, by Heather Morris (Harper Collins $16.99)

10. News of the World, by Paulette Jiles (Harper Collins $15.99)

Paperback Nonfiction

1. Just Mercy, by Bryan Stevenson (Random House $17)

2. Death of a Pinehurst Princess: The 1935 Elva Statler Davidson Mystery, by Steve Bouser (History Press $19.99)

3. The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss and American Royalty in the Nation’s Largest Home, by Denise Kiernan (Simon and Schuster $18)

4. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism, by Robin Diangelo (Random House $16)

5. Ashley’s War, by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (Harper Collins $15.99)

6. Rules for the Southern Rule Breaker: Missteps and Lessons Learned, by Katherine Snow Smith (She Writes Press $16.95)

7. Alone at Dawn: Medal of Honor Recipient John Chapman and the Untold Story of the World’s Deadliest Special Operations Force, by Dan Schilling (Hachette Book Group $17.99)

8. Mothers and Strangers: Essays on Motherhood from the New South, by Lee Smith and Samia Seragelsin (UNC Press $22)

9. Every Man a Hero: A Memoir of D-Day, the First Wave at Omaha Beach, and a World at War, by Ray Lambert and Jim DeFelice (Harper Collins $17.99)

10. Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed Edition $18)

Children’s Books

1. Fins, by Randy Wayne White (Macmillan $16.99)

2. Caterpillar Summer, by Gillian McDunn (Macmillan $16.99)

3. Twins No. 1, by Varian Johnson (Scholastic Book Group $12.99)

4. Cozy, by Jan Brett (Penguin Book Group $18.99)

5. City Spies, by James Ponti (Simon & Schuster $17.99)

6. The Best of Iggy, by Annie Barrows (Penguin Book Group $13.99)

7. Mac B., Kid Spy No. 5: Sound of Danger, by Mac Barnett (Scholastic Book Group $12.99)

8. Hum and Swish, by Matt Myers (Penguin Book Group $18.99)

9. Dog Man No. 9: Grime and Punishment, by Dav Pilkey (Scholastic Book Group $12.99)

10. Ashlords, by Scott Reintgen (Random House $17.99)

This list was compiled by The Country Bookshop, in Southern Pines, which is owned by The Pilot.