Appearing on the bestseller lists for the first time this week are some familiar authors with new releases, including John Green’s adult fiction debut, Hollywood, Ending. We also have some celebrity memoirs, including The Perilous Fight by Colin Kaepernick. (Check out this excerpt from The Perilous Fight about the books that changed Colin Kaepernick’s life.)
This list continues to lack diversity on many levels, including being disproportionately by white authors. Some Indie Bestsellers you should know about are Happy Snacking, Don’t Die!: Foraging and Vegan Recipes with Black Forager (a Cookbook) by Alexis Nikole Nelson, The Disappearers by Marlon James, Taipei Story by R. F. Kuang, and Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy.
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.
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Books On All Five Bestseller Lists:
Theo of Golden by Allen Levi
Hollow Bones by Jodi Picoult
Books On Four Bestseller Lists:
Protocols: An Operating Manual for the Human Body by Andrew D. Huberman (Publishers Weekly, USA Today, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)
The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett (Publishers Weekly, NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)
Books On Three Bestseller Lists:
Hollywood, Ending by John Green (USA Today, NYT, Indie Bestsellers)
The Perilous Fight by Colin Kaepernick (NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)
Swan Song: Diana, My Sister by Charles Spencer (NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)
Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman (NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)
Verity by Colleen Hoover (USA Today, NYT, Amazon)
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