The Bestselling Books of the Week, According to All the Lists

Since September, I’ve been putting unneurotic this combined database of each the bestselling books, according to each the large bestsellers lists: the New York Times, some Combined Print & E-Book Fiction and Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction lists; Amazon Charts, some Fiction and Nonfiction; USA Today; and Publishers Weekly. To beryllium honest, determination aren’t usually a batch of surprises. But this is the archetypal week with immoderate news: there’s nary USA Today bestseller database this week.

USA Today laid disconnected astir 200 employees, including the exertion who enactment unneurotic the USA Today bestseller list, and since then, their bestseller database has been “on hiatus.” They volition beryllium sharing an update immoderate clip successful 2023. Many authors person expressed their interest astir the disappearance of this list, due to the fact that it’s considered to beryllium much sales-based that different bestseller lists, and the agelong afloat database allows much chances for titles to beryllium considered bestsellers.

So, for the clip being, “all the lists” is going to beryllium 3 lists: NYT, Amazon, and Publishers Weekly. New additions are bolded.

Three lists oregon four, this continues to beryllium a precise achromatic bestseller list, with the objection of Michelle Obama’s caller book. It’s a bully reminder that publishing has a agelong mode to go, particularly erstwhile it comes to the kinds of books that get large selling budgets. Hopefully BookTok volition radiance its airy connected immoderate authors different than Colleen Hoover soon!

For immoderate caller releases that merit a batch much attention, cheque retired Roses, successful the Mouth of a Lion by Bushra Rehman and How Far the Light Reaches: A Life successful Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler.

Books On All Three Bestseller Lists:

The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama (NYT #1, Publishers Weekly #2, Amazon #1)

A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny (NYT #1, Publishers Weekly #5, Amazon #2)

It Starts With Us by Colleen Hoover (NYT #2, Publishers Weekly #3, Amazon #1)

It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover (NYT #3, Publishers Weekly #6, Amazon #3)

The Boys from Biloxi by John Grisham (NYT #5, Publishers Weekly #9, Amazon #5)

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