Best sellers for the week of Dec. 23

1. "The Racketeer" by John Grisham (Doubleday)

2. "Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn (Crown)

3. "Threat Vector" by Tom Clancy (Putnam)

4. "The Casual Vacancy" by J.K. Rowling (Little, Brown)

5. "Merry Christmas, Alex Cross" by James Patterson (Little, Brown)

6. "Notorious Nineteen: A Stephanie Plum Novel" by Janet Evanovich (Bantam)

7. "The Forgotten" by David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing)

8. "The Time Keeper" by Mitch Albom (Hyperion)

9. "Cross Roads" by Wm. Paul Young (Faith/Words)

10. "The Last Man: A Novel" by Vince Flynn (Atria/Emily Bestler Books)

11. "The Black Box" by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown)

12. "Agenda 21" by Glenn Beck and Harriet Parke (Threshold Editions)

13. "Flight Behavior" by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper)

14. "The Twelve Tribes of Hattie" by Ayana Mathis (Knopf)

15. "Winter of the World" by Ken Follett (Dutton)

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. "Killing Kennedy" by Bill O'Reilly (Henry Holt and Co.)

2. "Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power" by Jon Meachum (Random House)

3. "Guinness World Records 2013" by Guinness World Records (Guinness World Records)

4. "Barefoot Contessa Foolproof: Recipes You Can Trust" by Ina Garten (Clarkson Potter)

5. "No Easy Day" by Mark Owen (Dutton)

6. "America Again" by Stephen Colbert (Grand Central Publishing)

7. "Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers (Faith/Words)

8. "The Signal and the Noise" by Nate Silver (Penguin)

9. "I Declare: 31 Promises to Speak" by Joel Osteen (Faith/Words)

10. "Ripley's Believe It of Not!" by Geoff Tibballs (Ripley Publishing)

11. "The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook" by Deb Perelman (Knopf)

12. "Waging Heavy Peace" by Neil Young (Blue Rider Press)

13. "Fifty Shades of Chicken" by F.L. Fowler (Clarkson Potter)

14. "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (Daniel Falconer)

15. "Bruce" by Peter Ames Carlin (Touchstone Books)

MASS MARKET PAPERBACKS

1. "Safe Haven" by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central)

2. "Big Sky River" by Linda Lael Miller (Harlequin HQN)

3. "10th Anniversary" by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro (Vision)

4. Kill Alex Cross" by James Patterson (Vision)

5. "Locked On" by Janet Evanovich (Bantam)

6. "Jack Reacher: One Shot: A Novel" by Lee Child (Dell)

7. "Wicked Business: A Lizzy and Diesel Novel" by Janet Evanovich (Bantam)