This week’s nonfiction is #1 on the indie bestseller list communion By bell hooks, which shares a title with the new J.D. Vance book. It’s no accident :A grassroots campaign Encouraged readers to choose the bell hook title and it worked. It reached the #12 bestseller spot the new York Times and was a #1 bestseller on Bookshop.org. The publisher stated that sales on the title are up 1,000% from the previous year.
The list continues to lack diversity on many levels, including being disproportionately comprised of white writers. Some Independent Press Bestsellers You Should Know About covenant of water By Abraham Varghese, Brading Sweetgrass By Robin Wall Kimmerer, and Forest Enthusiasm: Nature’s Abundant Wonders By Patricia Ononivu Cashion.
To get these numbers, we look at new York TimesBoth the combined print and e-book fiction and combined print and e-book nonfiction lists; Amazon charts, both fiction and nonfiction; Publishers Weekly; USA Today; and indie bestsellers, both fiction and nonfiction, paperback and hardcover.
Books on all five bestseller lists:
Regime change: inside Donald Trump’s imperial presidency By Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan
Theo of Golden by alan levy
first year Cairo by Claire Burke
dungeon crawler carl By Matt Dinniman
Whistler by Ann Patchett
disaster club By Kathryn Stockett
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Books on four bestseller lists:
Project Hail Mary By Andy Weir (Publishers Weekly, USA Today, NYT, Indie Bestseller)
deal By Elle Kennedy (Publishers Weekly, NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestseller)
Divorce By Frieda McFadden (Publishers Weekly, USA Today, NYT, Amazon)
Books on three bestseller lists:
Stranger By Belle Burden (NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestseller)
land and its people By David Sedaris (NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestseller)
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