Nonfiction is showing up strong on the bestseller lists this week. Starting with a feel-good read, there’s I’ll Believe in Anything by Jacob Tierney, which is a collection of annotated scripts for the first season of Heated Rivalry. The rest of the new nonfiction books on the lists are of a very different tone. In the Shadow of Eight by Collin Gosselin is a memoir from one of the sextuplets from Jon & Kate Plus 8, sharing the traumatic details of his childhood that didn’t make it onto the screen. The American Way of Killingby Malcolm Gladwell, investigating the history of gun violence in the U.S., has also climbed up the ranks recently.
This list continues to lack diversity on many levels, including being disproportionately by white authors. Some Indie Bestsellers you should know about are American Hagwon by Min Jin Lee, The Disappearers by Marlon James, Off the Reservation by Stephen Graham Jones, and Happy Snacking, Don’t Die!: Foraging and Vegan Recipes with Black Forager (A Cookbook) by Alexis Nikole Nelson.
To get these numbers, we look at TheNew 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:
Threshing Day by Rebecca Yarros
The Witch by Freida McFadden
Theo of Golden by Allen Levi
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Books On Four Bestseller Lists:
The French Illusion by John Grisham (Publishers Weekly, USA Today, NYT, Amazon)
Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman (Publishers Weekly, NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)
Books On Three Bestseller Lists:
I’ll Believe in Anything: The Making of Heated Rivalry Season 1 (the Annotated Scripts) by Jacob Tierney (Publishers Weekly, USA Today, Indie Bestsellers)
In the Shadow of Eight: Surviving the Reality of My Childhood by Collin Gosselin (Publishers Weekly, USA Today, NYT)
Verity by Colleen Hoover (Publishers Weekly,NYT, Amazon)
Vibe: The Secrets of Strong Connections in a Lonely World by Adam Grant (USA Today, NYT, Indie Bestsellers)
Blockers: Rebels in the Deep State by Michael Lewis (NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)
The American Way of Killing: The Invention of an Epidemicby Malcolm Gladwell (NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)
The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett (NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)
Contend: Standing Boldly for Biblical Truth in an Age of Compromise by Philip Anthony Mitchell (Publishers Weekly, USA Today, Amazon)
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