Published Wednesday, November 1, 2023 (for the sales week ended Sunday, October 29, 2023). Based on reporting from hundreds of independent bookstores across the United States.
Debuts for the week:
Hardcover Fiction
#1-Let Us Descend, by Jesmyn Ward (9781982104498)
#9-The Secret, by Lee Child, Andrew Child (9781984818584)
Hardcover Nonfiction
#1-The Woman in Me, by Britney Spears (9781668009048)
#3-How to Know a Person, by David Brooks (9780593230060)
#7-Hidden Potential, by Adam Grant (9780593653142)
#10-The Comfort of Crows, by Margaret Renkl (9781954118461)
#12-Romney, by McKay Coppins (9781982196202)
#13-Emperor of Rome, by Mary Beard (9780871404220)
Paperback Fiction
#7-Iris Kelly Doesn’t Date, by Ashley Herring Blake (9780593550571)
#11-The Best American Short Stories 2023, by Min Jin Lee, Heidi Pitlor (Eds.) (9780063275904)
Paperback Nonfiction
#7-The Song of the Cell, by Siddhartha Mukherjee (9781982117368)
#14-The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine, by Rashid Khalidi (9781250787651)
#15-The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams, by Stacy Schiff (9780316441094)
Mass Market
#5-The Jailhouse Lawyer, by James Patterson, Nancy Allen (9781538752609)
#8-Girl, Forgotten, by Karin Slaughter (9780062859044)
#9-Without a Trace, by Danielle Steel (9781984821881)
Early & Middle Grade
#15-Super Boba Café, by Nidhi Chanani (9781419759574)
Young Adult
#8-The Cruel Prince: Collector’s Edition, by Holly Black (9780316461252)
Children’s Series
New: Diary of a Wimpy Kid: No Brainer, by Jeff Kinney (9781419766947)
New: A Curse for True Love (Once Upon a Broken Heart), by Stephanie Garber (9781250851208)
HARDCOVER FICTION
1. Let Us Descend- Debut
Jesmyn Ward, Scribner, $28, 9781982104498
2. Tom Lake
Ann Patchett, Harper, $30, 9780063327528
3. Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $29.99, 9781649374042
4. Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus, Doubleday, $29, 9780385547345
5. The Exchange
John Grisham, Doubleday, $29.95, 9780385548953
6. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper, $32.50, 9780063251922
7. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
James McBride, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593422946
8. The Covenant of Water
Abraham Verghese, Grove Press, $32, 9780802162175
9. The Secret- Debut
Lee Child, Andrew Child, Delacorte Press, $28.99, 9781984818584
10. Roman Stories
Jhumpa Lahiri, Todd Portnowitz (Transl.), Knopf, $27, 9780593536322
11. Starling House
Alix E. Harrow, Tor, $28.99, 9781250799050
12. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, Knopf, $28, 9780593321201
13. The Fraud
Zadie Smith, Penguin Press, $29, 9780525558965
14. Holly
Stephen King, Scribner, $30, 9781668016138
15. The Mysteries
Bill Watterson, John Kascht, Andrews McMeel, $19.99, 9781524884949
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. The Woman in Me- Debut
Britney Spears, Gallery Books, $32.99, 9781668009048
2. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
Heather Cox Richardson, Viking, $30, 9780593652961
3. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen- Debut
David Brooks, Random House, $30, 9780593230060
4. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
Rachel Maddow, Crown, $32, 9780593444511
5. Enough
Cassidy Hutchinson, Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668028285
6. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Doubleday, $30, 9780385534260
7. Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things- Debut
Adam Grant, Viking, $32, 9780593653142
8. Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
Michael Lewis, Norton, $30, 9781324074335
9. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
10. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year- Debut
Margaret Renkl, Spiegel & Grau, $32, 9781954118461
11. Elon Musk
Walter Isaacson, Simon & Schuster, $35, 9781982181284
12. Romney: A Reckoning- Debut
McKay Coppins, Scribner, $32.50, 9781982196202
13. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World- Debut
Mary Beard, Liveright, $39.99, 9780871404220
14. Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Penguin Press, $28, 9780593655955
15. Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune
Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe, Harper, $32.99, 9780062964700
PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Trust
Hernan Diaz, Riverhead Books, $17, 9780593420324
2. A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575569
3. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Washington Square Press, $17, 9781501161933
4. The Midnight Library
Matt Haig, Penguin, $18, 9780525559498
5. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
Shane Hawk (Ed.), Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (Ed.), Vintage, $17, 9780593468463
6. All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr, Scribner, $18.99, 9781668017340
7. Iris Kelly Doesn’t Date- Debut
Ashley Herring Blake, Berkley, $18, 9780593550571
8. Mad Honey
Jodi Picoult, Jennifer Finney Boylan, Ballantine, $18, 9781984818409
9. The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman, Penguin, $18, 9781984880987
10. Babel
R. F. Kuang, Harper Voyager, $20, 9780063021433
11. The Best American Short Stories 2023- Debut
Min Jin Lee, Heidi Pitlor (Eds.), Mariner Books, $18.99, 9780063275904
12. A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara, Anchor, $18, 9780804172707
13. The Passenger
Cormac McCarthy, Vintage, $18, 9780307389091
14. The Silent Patient
Alex Michaelides, Celadon Books, $17.99, 9781250301703
15. A Court of Mist and Fury
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575583
On the Rise:
18. Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries
Heather Fawcett, Del Rey, $18, 9780593500156
PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. Killers of the Flower Moon The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann, Vintage, $18, 9780593470831
2. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $20, 9781571313560
3. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
4. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
5. Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Michelle Zauner, Vintage, $17, 9781984898951
6. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Ed Yong, Random House, $20, 9780593133255
7. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human- Debut
Siddhartha Mukherjee, Scribner, $21, 9781982117368
8. The 2024 Old Farmer’s Almanac
Old Farmer’s Almanac, $9.95, 9781571989529
9. Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Likes to Walk Outside
Nick Offerman, Dutton, $18, 9781101984703
10. Solito: A Memoir
Javier Zamora, Hogarth, $18, 9780593498088
11. And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
Jon Meacham, Random House, $25, 9780553393989
12. Stay True: A Memoir
Hua Hsu, Anchor, $17, 9780593315200
13. Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know
Malcolm Gladwell, Back Bay, $18.99, 9780316299220
14. The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917—2017- Debut
Rashid Khalidi, Picador, $19.99, 9781250787651
15. The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams- Debut
Stacy Schiff, Back Bay Books, $21.99, 9780316441094
On the Rise:
16. The Best American Essays 2023
Vivian Gornick, Robert Atwan (Eds.), Mariner Books, $18.99, 9780063288843
MASS MARKET
1. The Boys from Biloxi
John Grisham, Vintage, $10.99, 9780593470916
2. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935
3. A Haunting in Venice
Agatha Christie, Morrow, $9.99, 9780063342972
4. No Plan B
Lee Child, Andrew Child, Dell, $9.99, 9781984818577
5. The Jailhouse Lawyer- Debut
James Patterson, Nancy Allen, Grand Central, $10.99, 9781538752609
6. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593438367
7. The Family Upstairs
Lisa Jewell, Pocket, $10.99, 9781668026519
8. Girl, Forgotten- Debut
Karin Slaughter, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062859044
9. Without a Trace- Debut
Danielle Steel, Dell, $9.99, 9781984821881
10. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
EARLY & MIDDLE GRADE
1. The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale
Jon Klassen, Candlewick, $19.99, 9781536223361
2. Wings of Fire: A Guide to the Dragon World
Tui T. Sutherland, Joy Ang (Illus.), Scholastic Press, $24.99, 9781338634822
3. The Puppets of Spelhorst
Kate DiCamillo, Julie Morstad (Illus.), Candlewick, $17.99, 9781536216752
4. Dogtown
Katherine Applegate, Gennifer Choldenko, Wallace West (Illus.), Feiwel & Friends, $17.99, 9781250811608
5. Rise of the Shadowfire: A Graphic Novel
Jaimal Yogis, Vivian Truong (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338660456
6. Cat on the Run in Cat of Death!
Aaron Blabey, Scholastic, $7.99, 9781338831825
7. Wrecker
Carl Hiaasen, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593376287
8. The Lost Library
Rebecca Stead, Wendy Mass, Feiwel & Friends, $17.99, 9781250838810
9. Ghost Book
Remy Lai, Henry Holt and Co. BYR, $14.99, 9781250810434
10. A Horse Named Sky
Rosanne Parry, Kirbi Fagan (Illus.), Greenwillow Books, $18.99, 9780062995957
11. Rowley Jefferson’s Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories
Jeff Kinney, Abrams, $14.99, 9781419756979
12. From the World of Percy Jackson: The Sun and the Star
Rick Riordan, Mark Oshiro, Disney Hyperion, $19.99, 9781368081153
13. 96 Facts About Taylor Swift: Quizzes, Quotes, Questions, and More!
Arie Kaplan, Risa Rodil (Illus.), Grosset & Dunlap, $6.99, 9780593750933
14. Charlotte’s Web
E.B. White, Harper, $8.99, 9780064400558
15. Super Boba Café- Debut
Nidhi Chanani, Amulet, $16.99, 9781419759574
YOUNG ADULT
1. Divine Rivals
Rebecca Ross, Wednesday Books, $18.99, 9781250857439
2. The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
Andrew Joseph White, Peachtree Teen, $19.99, 9781682636114
3. A Study in Drowning
Ava Reid, HarperTeen, $19.99, 9780063211506
4. Curious Tides
Pascale Lacelle, Margaret K. McElderry Books, $21.99, 9781665939270
5. Hell Followed with Us
Andrew Joseph White, Peachtree Teen, $12.99, 9781682635636
6. If He Had Been with Me
Laura Nowlin, Sourcebooks Fire, $10.99, 9781728205489
7. Lightlark
Alex Aster, Amulet, $12.99, 9781419760877
8. The Cruel Prince: Collector’s Edition- Debut
Holly Black, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $35, 9780316461252
9. Nimona
ND Stevenson, Quill Tree Books, $18.99, 9780062278227
10. This Winter
Alice Oseman, Scholastic Press, $17.99, 9781338885132
11. The Book Thief
Markus Zusak, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9780375842207
12. Five Survive
Holly Jackson, Delacorte Press, $19.99, 9780593374160
13. The Scarlet Veil
Shelby Mahurin, HarperTeen, $21.99, 9780063258754
14. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky, MTV Books, $15.99, 9781451696196
15. Girl in Pieces
Kathleen Glasgow, Ember, $10.99, 9781101934746
CHILDREN’S ILLUSTRATED
1. Room on the Broom
Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.), Dial Books, $8.99, 9780593110409
2. Taylor Swift: A Little Golden Book Biography
Wendy Loggia, Elisa Chavarri (Illus.), Golden Books, $5.99, 9780593566718
3. Boo! Bluey’s Halloween
Penguin Young Readers, $14.99, 9780593659540
4. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780694003617
5. Little Blue Truck’s Halloween
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $13.99, 9780544772533
6. Dragon’s First Taco
Adam Rubin, Daniel Salmieri (Illus.), Dial Books, $8.99, 9780593533178
7. If I Was a Horse
Sophie Blackall, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780316510981
8. Grumpy Monkey Don’t Be Scared
Suzanne Lang, Max Lang (Illus.), Random House Studio, $10.99, 9780593486955
9. Something, Someday
Amanda Gorman, Christian Robinson (Illus.), Viking Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593203255
10. Eek! Halloween!
Sandra Boynton, Boynton Bookworks, $7.99, 9781665925143
11. Peekaboo: Pumpkin
Camilla Reid, Ingela P. Arrhenius (Illus.), Candlewick Press, $9.99, 9781536229813
12. Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Sleigh!
Mo Willems, Union Square Kids, $18.99, 9781454952770
13. Bruce and the Legend of Soggy Hollow
Ryan T. Higgins, Disney Hyperion, $18.99, 9781368059589
14. Just Because
Matthew McConaughey, Renée Kurilla (Illus.), Viking Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593622032
15. Spooky Pookie
Sandra Boynton, Boynton Bookworks, $6.99, 9781481497671
CHILDREN’S SERIES
1. Diary of a Wimpy Kid (hardcover)
Jeff Kinney, Amulet
New in Series: No Brainer (9781419766947)
2. Percy Jackson and the Olympians (hardcover and paperback)
Rick Riordan, Hyperion
3. Dog Man (hardcover)
Dav Pilkey, Graphix
4. Elephant & Piggie (hardcover)
Mo Willems, Hyperion
5. Spy School (hardcover and paperback)
Stuart Gibbs, Anjan Sarkar (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
6. InvestiGators (hardcover and paperback)
John Patrick Green, Christopher Hastings, Pat Lewis (Illus.), First Second
7. Magic Tree House (hardcover and paperback)
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers
8. The Hunger Games (hardcover and paperback)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic
9. Wild Robot (hardcover)
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
10. Once Upon a Broken Heart (hardcover and paperback)
Stephanie Garber, Flatiron Books
New in Series: A Curse for True Love (9781250851208)
