The bestsellers this week include a couple of new releases appearing on this list for the first time: What to Cook When You Don’t Feel Like Cooking: Make It Fast by Caroline Chambers and The Butcher Legacy by Alaina Urquhart. We also have some returning favorites—books that fell off the bestseller lists in recent weeks, but have climbed the ranks again: The Wedding People by Alison Espach and Carl’s Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman.
This list continues to lack diversity on many levels, including being disproportionately by white authors. Some Indie Bestsellers and Independent Press bestsellers you should know about are Death Card by Jasmine Smith, Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead, and Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur. Assata: An Autobiography is a 1988 title that has renewed attention this year following the death of the author.
To get these numbers, we look at The New York Times, both Combined Print & E-Book Fiction and Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction lists; Amazon Charts, both Fiction and Nonfiction; Publishers Weekly; USA Today; and Indie Bestsellers, Fiction and Nonfiction, both Paperback and Hardcover.
Books On All Five Bestseller Lists:
Theo of Golden by Allen Levi
Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
Whistler by Ann Patchett
Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett
Books On Four Bestseller Lists:
None.
Books On Three Bestseller Lists:
What to Cook When You Don’t Feel Like Cooking: Make It Fast by Caroline Chambers (Publishers Weekly, USA Today, Indie Bestsellers)
Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan (NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)
Strangers by Belle Burden (NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (Publishers Weekly, NYT, Indie Bestsellers)
The Wedding People by Alison Espach (Publishers Weekly, USA Today, Indie Bestsellers)
The Butcher Legacy by Alaina Urquhart (Publishers Weekly, USA Today, NYT)
Carl’s Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman (NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)
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