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Hardcover Fiction: December 5, 2020
| Rank | Title | Author | Publisher | List Price | Last week's rank | Weeks on List |
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| 1 | Home Body | Rupi Kaur | Simon & Schuster | $22.00 | 1 | 1 |
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| 2 | Ready Player Two | Ernest Cline | Ballantine | $38.99 | - | - |
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| 3 | Invisible Girl | Lisa Jewell | Atria | $24.99 | 5 | 7 |
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| 4 | A Time for Mercy | John Grisham | Doubleday | $39.00 | 3 | 7 |
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| 5 | The Vanishing Half | Brit Bennett | Riverhead Books | $36.00 | 6 | 6 |
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| 6 | The Awakening | Nora Roberts | St. Martins's Press | $35.99 | - | - |
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| 7 | Deadly Cross | James Patterson | Little Brown & Co. | $39.00 | - | - |
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| 8 | The Law of Innocence | Michael Connelly | Little Brown & Co. | $37.00 | 4 | 2 |
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| 9 | Daylight | David Baldacci | Grand Central | $37.00 | 8 | 1 |
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| 10 | Anxious People | Fredrik Backman | Simon & Schuster | $24.99 | - | - |
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Hardcover Non-Fiction: December 5, 2020
| Rank | Title | Author | Publisher | List Price | Last Week's rank |
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| 1 | A Promised Land | Barack Obama | Crown | $55.00 | 1 |
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| 2 | Extraordinary Canadians | Peter Mansbridge | Simon & Schuster | $36.99 | 3 |
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| 3 | No Time Like the Future | Michael J. Fox | Flatiron | $37.99 | 2 |
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| 4 | If I Knew Then | Jann Arden | Random House Canda | $32.00 | 4 |
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| 5 | Is This Anything? | Jerry Seinfeld | Simon & Schuster | $40.00 | 5 |
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| 6 | Burke's Law | Brian Burke and Stephen Brunt | Viking | $35.00 | 6 |
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| 7 | All Together Now | Alan Doyle | Doubleday Canada | $27.00 | - |
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| 8 | Untamed | Glennon Doyle | The Dial | $37.00 | 9 |
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| 9 | Beauties | James Duthie | HarperCollins Canada | $34.99 | 7 |
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| 10 | The Answer Is ... | Alex Trebek | Simon & Schuster | $32.00 | - |
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Paperback Fiction: December 5, 2020
| Rank | Title | Author | Publisher | List Price | Last Week's rank |
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| 1 | The River Murders | James Patterson and James O. Born | Grand Central | $12.99 | 2 |
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| 2 | The Night Fire | Michael Connelly | Grand Central | $12.99 | 1 |
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| 3 | Spy | Danielle Steel | Dell | $11.99 | 3 |
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| 4 | The Institute | Stephen King | Gallery Books | $26.99 | 7 |
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| 5 | Criss Cross | James Patterson | Grand Central | $12.99 | 5 |
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| 6 | The Wife Between Us | Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen | Saint Martin's Paperbacks | $12.99 | 4 |
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| 7 | The Last Widow | Karin Slaughter | William Morrow & Co. | $12.99 | 6 |
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| 8 | The Nightingale | Kristin Hannah | Saint Martin's Griffin | $23.50 | - |
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| 9 | Cilka's Journey | Heather Morris | Saint Martin's Griffin | $22.99 | - |
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| 10 | Little Fires Everywhere | Celeste Ng | Penguin | $23.00 | - |
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Canadian Fiction: December 5, 2020
| Rank | Title | Author | Publisher | List Price | Last Week's rank |
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| 1 | Home Body | Rupi Kaur | Simon & Schuster | $22.00 | 1 |
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| 2 | How to Pronounce Knife | Souvankham Thammavongsa | McClelland & Stewart | $24.95 | 2 |
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| 3 | The Forgotten Daughter | Joanna Goodman | Harper Paperbacks | $21.99 | 3 |
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| 4 | Indians on Vacation | Thomas King | HarperCollins Canada | $32.99 | 4 |
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| 5 | All the Devils are Here | Louise Penny | Minotaur | $36.99 | 5 |
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| 6 | Dearly | Margaret Atwood | McClelland & Stewart | $32.95 | 8 |
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| 7 | Elevator Pitch | Linwood Barclay | Seal | $12.99 | 6 |
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| 8 | The Glass Hotel | Emily St. John Mandel | HarperCollins Canada | $24.99 | 7 |
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| 9 | The Pull of the Stars | Emma Donoghue | Harper Avenue | $33.99 | 9 |
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| 10 | Milk and Honey | Rupi Kaur | Andrews McMeel | $19.99 | 10 |
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Canadian Non-Fiction: December 5, 2020
| Rank | Title | Author | Publisher | List Price | Last Week's rank |
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| 1 | Extraordinary Canadians | Peter Mansbridge | Simon & Schuster | $36.99 | 2 |
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| 2 | No Time Like the Future | Michael J. Fox | Flatiron | $37.99 | 1 |
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| 3 | If I Knew Then | Jann Arden | Random House Canda | $32.00 | 3 |
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| 4 | Burke's Law | Brian Burke and Stephen Brunt | Viking | $35.00 | 4 |
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| 5 | All Together Now | Alan Doyle | Doubleday Canada | $27.00 | - |
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| 6 | Beauties | Duthie, James | HarperCollins Canada | $34.99 | 5 |
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| 7 | The Answer Is ... | Alex Trebek | Simon & Schuster | $32.00 | 6 |
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| 8 | War: How Conflict Shaped Us | Margaret MacMillan | Allen Lane | $35.00 | 7 |
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| 9 | From the Ashes | Jesse Thistle | Simon & Schuster | $24.99 | 10 |
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| 10 | Everyday Hockey Heroes, Volume II | McKenzie, Bob; Lang, Jim | Simon & Schuster | $34.99 | 8 |
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Juvenile: December 5, 2020
| Rank | Title | Author | Publisher | List Price | Last Week's rank |
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| 1 | Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Deep End | Jeff Kinney | Amulet | $17.99 | 1 |
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| 2 | The Ickabog | J. K. Rowling | Scholastic | $36.99 | 2 |
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| 3 | Dog Man: Grime and Punishment | Dav Pilkey | Graphix | $15.99 | 3 |
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| 4 | How the Grinch Stole Christmas! | Dr. Seuss | Random House Book for Young Readers | $21.99 | - |
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| 5 | I Love You to the Moon and Back | Amelia Hepworth and Tim Warnes | Tiger Tales | $10.99 | 8 |
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| 6 | The Couch Potato | Jory John and Pete Oswald | HarperCollins Canada | $23.99 | 6 |
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| 7 | Sounds Like Christmas | Robert Munsch and Michael Martchenko | North Wind | $19.99 | - |
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| 8 | Elf | Kim Smith | Quirk | $19.99 | 10 |
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| 9 | The Grinny Granny Donkey | Craig Smith and Katz Crowley | Scholastic | $9.99 | 4 |
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| 10 | Dear Girl | Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Holly Hatam and Paris Rosenthal | HarperCollins Canada | $21.99 | - |
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Self Improvement: December 5, 2020
| Rank | Title | Author | Publisher | List Price | Last Week's rank |
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| 1 | Think Like a Monk | Jay Shetty | Simon & Schuster | $34.99 | 1 |
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| 2 | The Greatest Secret | Rhonda Byrne | HarperOne | $33.50 | - |
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| 3 | Wreck This Journal | Keri Smith | Penguin | $16.00 | 2 |
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| 4 | Burn After Writing | Sharon Jones | TarcherPerigee | $19.00 | 3 |
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| 5 | The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F*ck | Mark Manson | HarperCollins Canada | $23.99 | 4 |
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| 6 | Chicken Soup for the Soul: Christmas is in the Air | Amy Newmark | Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing | $17.95 | 5 |
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| 7 | The Intelligent Investor | Benjamin Graham | Harper | $31.00 | 7 |
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| 8 | Rich Dad Poor Dad | Robert T. Kiyosaki | Plata | $11.99 | - |
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| 9 | Didn't See That Coming | Rachel Hollis | Dey Street | $25.00 | 8 |
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| 10 | The 48 Laws of Power | Robert Greene | Penguin | $34.00 | 6 |
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Historical Fiction: December 5, 2020
| Rank | Title | Author | Publisher | List Price |
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| 1 | The Evening and the Morning | Ken Follett | Viking | $48.00 |
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| 2 | The Henna Artist | Aika Joshi | Mira | $23.99 |
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| 3 | Cilka's Journey | Heather Morris | Saint Martin's Griffin | $22.99 |
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| 4 | Dark Tides | Philippa Gregory | Atria | $37.00 |
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| 5 | The Tattooist Of Auschwitz | Heather Morris | Harper Paperbacks | $24.99 |
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| 6 | A Gentleman in Moscow | Towles, Amor | Penguin Books | $23.00 |
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| 7 | The Pull of the Stars | Emma Donoghue | Harper Avenue | $33.99 |
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| 8 | Circe | Madeline Miller | Back Bay | $22.99 |
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| 9 | The Song of Achilles | Madeline Miller | Ecco | $21.00 |
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| 10 | The Woman Before Wallis | Bryn Turnbull | Mira | $22.99 |
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