Dan Brown and Kamala Harris are back on all five bestseller lists this week, and that’s just about where the similarities to last week’s bestellers end. Most of the top titles from last week have fallen off completely or topped only one or two lists, replaced by special editions of books from the Empyrean series. There is one newcomer, and it’s from an author who’s topped the charts before: the latest installment in the Thursday Murder Club series by Richard Osman made it to four of the bestseller lists. Cozy crime and dragons: they get the people going!
I know you’ll be shocked to hear this, but this list continues to lack diversity on many levels, including being disproportionately by white authors. Some Indie Bestsellers you should know about are Katabasis by R. F. Kuang, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai, Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love by Samin Nosrat, and A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna.
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:
The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown
107 Days by Kamala Harris
Alchemised by SenLinYu
Books On Four Bestseller Lists:
The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman (Publishers Weekly, USA Today, NYT, Indie Bestsellers)
Books On Three Bestseller Lists:
Iron Flame (Wing and Claw Collection) by Rebecca Yarros (Publishers Weekly, USA Today, NYT)
Fourth Wing (Wing and Claw Collection) by Rebecca Yarros (Publishers Weekly, USA Today, NYT)
The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins (Publishers Weekly, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)
Poems & Prayers by Matthew McConaughey (NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)
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