Best Sellers Print Hardcover
Best Sellers Print Hardcover
September 19, 2021
THIS LAST WEEKS THIS LAST WEEKS WEEK WEEK Fiction ON LIST WEEK WEEK Nonfiction ON LIST 1 A SLOW FIRE BURNING, by Paula Hawkins. (Riverhead) 1 1 1 AMERICAN MARXISM, by Mark R. Levin. (Threshold Editions) 8 Three women come under scrutiny when a young man is found The Fox News host gives his take on the Green New Deal, critical gruesomely murdered in a London houseboat. race theory and social activism. 2 2 BILLY SUMMERS, by Stephen King. (Scribner) A killer for hire 5 2 THE AFGHANISTAN PAPERS, by Craig Whitlock. (Simon & 1 who only takes out bad guys seeks redemption as he does one Schuster) An investigative reporter for The Washington Post gives final job. an account of how three successive presidents and their military commanders handled America’s invasion of Afghanistan after 3 1 THE MADNESS OF CROWDS, by Louise Penny. (Minotaur) The 2 9/11. 17th book in the Chief Inspector Gamache series. Gamache is tasked with providing security for a statistics professor whose 3 2 THE LONG SLIDE, by Tucker Carlson. (Threshold Editions) A 4 views are repulsive to him. collection of previously published essays from 1995 to 2016 by the Fox News host. 4 6 THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY, by Matt Haig. (Viking) Nora Seed finds 40 a library beyond the edge of the universe that contains books with 4 9 GREENLIGHTS, by Matthew McConaughey. (Crown) The Academy 46 multiple possibilities of the lives one could have lived. Award-winning actor shares snippets from the diaries he kept over the last 35 years. 5 7 THE NOISE, by James Patterson and J.D. Barker. (Little, Brown) A 3 strange vibration rises out of a forest near Mount Hood. 5 12 UNTAMED, by Glennon Doyle. (Dial) The activist and public 78 speaker describes her journey of listening to her inner voice. 6 9 THE PAPER PALACE, by Miranda Cowley Heller. (Riverhead) After 9 an extramarital dalliance, Elle must choose between her husband 6 10 CASTE, by Isabel Wilkerson. (Random House) The Pulitzer Prize- 57 and her childhood love. winning journalist examines aspects of caste systems across civilizations and reveals a rigid hierarchy in America today. 7 11 MALIBU RISING, by Taylor Jenkins Reid. (Ballantine) An epic 14 party has serious outcomes for four famous siblings. 7 5 WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU?, by Bruce D. Perry and Oprah 19 Winfrey. (Flatiron) An approach to dealing with trauma that shifts 8 3 THE LAST THING HE TOLD ME, by Laura Dave. (Simon & 18 an essential question used to investigate it. Schuster) Hannah Hall discovers truths about her missing husband and bonds with his daughter from a previous 8 11 CRYING IN H MART, by Michelle Zauner. (Knopf) The daughter 18 relationship. of a Korean mother and Jewish-American father, and leader of the indie rock project Japanese Breakfast, describes creating her own 9 8 COMPLICATIONS, by Danielle Steel. (Delacorte) On a September 3 identity after losing her mother to cancer. night, guests at the reopening of an exclusive Paris hotel experience love, tragedy and political intrigue. 9 13 THINK AGAIN, by Adam Grant. (Viking) An examination of the 25 cognitive skills of rethinking and unlearning that could be used to 10 14 WE WERE NEVER HERE, by Andrea Bartz. (Ballantine) Will the 5 adapt to a rapidly changing world. secrets Emily shares with Kristen about violent incidents in the past ruin her life? 10 4 THE RECKONING, by Mary L. Trump. (St. Martin’s) The author of 3 “Too Much and Never Enough” examines potential trauma caused 11 12 THE PRESIDENT’S DAUGHTER, by Bill Clinton and James 13 by current and historical events. Patterson. (Little, Brown) Matthew Keating, a past president and former Navy SEAL, goes on his own to find his abducted teenage 11 15 EDUCATED, by Tara Westover. (Random House) The daughter of 138 daughter. survivalists, who is kept out of school, educates herself enough to leave home for university. 12 4 THE LOVE SONGS OF W.E.B. DU BOIS, by Honorée Fanonne 2 Jeffers. (Harper) Ailey Pearl Garfield endeavors to embrace her 12 6 DOPAMINE NATION, by Anna Lembke. (Dutton) The medical 2 full heritage by digging into the stories of her ancestors who were director of Stanford Addiction Medicine explores the neuroscience Indigenous, Black and white. and behaviors that inform the relationship between pleasure and pain. 13 15 PROJECT HAIL MARY, by Andy Weir. (Ballantine) Ryland Grace 16 awakes from a long sleep alone and far from home, and the fate 13 ALL IN, by Billie Jean King with Johnette Howard and Maryanne 2 of humanity rests on his shoulders. Vollers. (Knopf) The former No. 1-ranked tennis player details her career and activism. 14 13 THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF ADDIE LARUE, by V.E. Schwab. (Tor/ 42 Forge) A Faustian bargain comes with a curse that affects the 14 THE PREMONITION, by Michael Lewis. (Norton) Stories of 11 adventure Addie LaRue has across centuries. skeptics who went against the official response of the Trump administration to the outbreak of Covid-19. The profiles include a 15 5 LIGHTNING STRIKE, by William Kent Krueger. (Atria) The 18th 2 local public-health officer and a group of doctors nicknamed the book in the Cork O’Connor mystery series. The 12-year-old son of Wolverines. a small town sheriff who rules a man’s death as a suicide suspects another cause. 15 7 WOKE, INC., by Vivek Ramaswamy. (Center Street) The founder 3 and executive chairman of the biopharmaceutical company Roivant Sciences shares his perspectives on American capitalism. (†)
Copyright © 2021 by The New York Times Rankings reflect sales for the week ending September 4, which are reported on a confidential basis by vendors offering a wide range of general interest titles published in the United States. Every week, thousands of diverse selling locations report their actual sales on hundreds of thousands of individual titles. The panel of reporting retailers is comprehensive and reflects sales in tens of thousands of stores of all sizes and demographics across the United States. Sales are statistically weighted to represent and accurately reflect all outlets proportionally nationwide. Among the categories not actively tracked at this time are: perennial sellers, required classroom reading, textbooks, reference and test preparation guides, e-books available exclusively from a single vendor, journals, workbooks, calorie counters, shopping guides, periodicals and crossword puzzles. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book’s sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A dagger (†) indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders. The New York Times Best Sellers are compiled and archived by The Best-Seller Lists Desk of The New York Times News Department, and are separate from the Editorial, Culture, Advertising and Business sides of The New York Times Company. More information on rankings and full methodology: www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/methodology. Best Sellers Combined Print & E-Book
September 19, 2021
THIS LAST WEEKS THIS LAST WEEKS WEEK WEEK Fiction ON LIST WEEK WEEK Nonfiction ON LIST 1 A SLOW FIRE BURNING, by Paula Hawkins. (Riverhead) 1 1 THE AFGHANISTAN PAPERS, by Craig Whitlock. (Simon & 1 Three women come under scrutiny when a young man is found Schuster) An investigative reporter for The Washington Post gives gruesomely murdered in a London houseboat. an account of how three successive presidents and their military commanders handled America’s invasion of Afghanistan after 2 3 IT ENDS WITH US, by Colleen Hoover. (Atria) A battered wife 12 9/11. raised in a violent home attempts to halt the cycle of abuse. 2 1 AMERICAN MARXISM, by Mark R. Levin. (Threshold Editions) 8 3 2 BILLY SUMMERS, by Stephen King. (Scribner) A killer for hire 5 The Fox News host gives his take on the Green New Deal, critical who only takes out bad guys seeks redemption as he does one race theory and social activism. final job. 3 2 THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE, by Bessel van der Kolk. 54 4 1 THE MADNESS OF CROWDS, by Louise Penny. (Minotaur) The 2 (Penguin) How trauma affects the body and mind, and innovative 17th book in the Chief Inspector Gamache series. Gamache is treatments for recovery. tasked with providing security for a statistics professor whose views are repulsive to him. 4 3 THE LONG SLIDE, by Tucker Carlson. (Threshold Editions) A 4 collection of previously published essays from 1995 to 2016 by 5 6 THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO, by Taylor Jenkins 10 the Fox News host. Reid. (Washington Square) A movie icon recounts stories of her loves and career to a struggling magazine writer. 5 THE SISTERS OF AUSCHWITZ, by Roxane van Iperen. (Harper) 1 Janny and Lien Brilleslijper from Amsterdam were sent by train to 6 4 THE LAST THING HE TOLD ME, by Laura Dave. (Simon & 18 Auschwitz when the Jewish safehouse they created in the woods Schuster) Hannah Hall discovers truths about her missing was discovered. husband and bonds with his daughter from a previous relationship. 6 12 GREENLIGHTS, by Matthew McConaughey. (Crown) The Academy 46 Award-winning actor shares snippets from the diaries he kept over 7 MALIBU RISING, by Taylor Jenkins Reid. (Ballantine) An epic 13 the last 35 years. party has serious outcomes for four famous siblings. 7 15 UNTAMED, by Glennon Doyle. (Dial) The activist and public 78 8 8 PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION, by Emily Henry. (Berkley) 17 speaker describes her journey of listening to her inner voice. Opposites Poppy and Alex meet to vacation together one more time in hopes of saving their relationship. 8 8 CASTE, by Isabel Wilkerson. (Random House) The Pulitzer Prize- 57 winning journalist examines aspects of caste systems across 9 9 THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY, by Matt Haig. (Viking) Nora Seed finds 40 civilizations and reveals a rigid hierarchy in America today. a library beyond the edge of the universe that contains books with multiple possibilities of the lives one could have lived. 9 7 BRAIDING SWEETGRASS, by Robin Wall Kimmerer. (Milkweed 20 Editions) A botanist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation 10 7 NINE PERFECT STRANGERS, by Liane Moriarty. (Flatiron) A 14 espouses having an understanding and appreciation of plants and romance writer becomes fascinated by the owner and director of animals. a health resort. 10 13 BORN A CRIME, by Trevor Noah. (One World) A memoir about 79 11 11 WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING, by Delia Owens. (Putnam) In a 146 growing up biracial in apartheid South Africa by the host of “The quiet town on the North Carolina coast in 1969, a young woman Daily Show.” who survived alone in the marsh becomes a murder suspect. 11 9 WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU?, by Bruce D. Perry and Oprah 19 12 THE HEART PRINCIPLE, by Helen Hoang. (Berkley) The third 1 Winfrey. (Flatiron) An approach to dealing with trauma that shifts book in the Kiss Quotient series. A violinist with a viral video an essential question used to investigate it. explores a new relationship after being hurt by her boyfriend. 12 CRYING IN H MART, by Michelle Zauner. (Knopf) The daughter 12 13 14 THE PAPER PALACE, by Miranda Cowley Heller. (Riverhead) After 9 of a Korean mother and Jewish-American father, and leader of the an extramarital dalliance, Elle must choose between her husband indie rock project Japanese Breakfast, describes creating her own and her childhood love. identity after losing her mother to cancer. 14 THE SONG OF ACHILLES, by Madeline Miller. (Ecco) A 20 13 THINK AGAIN, by Adam Grant. (Viking) An examination of the 15 reimagining of Homer’s “Iliad” that is narrated by Achilles’ cognitive skills of rethinking and unlearning that could be used to companion Patroclus. adapt to a rapidly changing world. 15 13 THE NOISE, by James Patterson and J.D. Barker. (Little, Brown) A 3 14 6 THE RECKONING, by Mary L. Trump. (St. Martin’s) The author of 3 strange vibration rises out of a forest near Mount Hood. “Too Much and Never Enough” examines potential trauma caused by current and historical events. 15 SAPIENS, by Yuval Noah Harari. (Harper) How Homo sapiens 108 became Earth’s dominant species.
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Rankings reflect sales for the week ending September 4, which are reported on a confidential basis by vendors offering a wide range of general interest titles published in the United States. Every week, thousands of diverse selling locations report their actual sales on hundreds of thousands of individual titles. The panel of reporting retailers is comprehensive and reflects sales in tens of thousands of stores of all sizes and demographics across the United States. Sales are statistically weighted to represent and accurately reflect all outlets proportionally nationwide. E-book rankings reflect sales from leading online vendors of e-books in a variety of popular e-reader formats. Titles are included regardless of whether they are published in both print and electronic formats or just one format. Publisher credits for e-books are listed under the corporate publishing name instead of by publisher’s division. Among the categories not actively tracked at this time are: perennial sellers, required classroom reading, textbooks, reference and test preparation guides, e-books available exclusively from a single vendor, journals, workbooks, calorie counters, shopping guides, periodicals and crossword puzzles. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book’s sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A dagger (†) indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders. The New York Times Best Sellers are compiled and archived by The Best-Seller Lists Desk of The New York Times News Department, and are separate from the Editorial, Culture, Advertising and Business sides of The New York Times Company. More information on rankings and full methodology: www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/methodology. Best Sellers Print Paperback
September 19, 2021
THIS WEEKS THIS WEEKS WEEK Paperback Trade Fiction ON LIST WEEK Paperback Nonfiction ON LIST 1 IT ENDS WITH US, by Colleen Hoover. (Atria) A battered wife 18 1 THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE, by Bessel van der Kolk. 150 raised in a violent home attempts to halt the cycle of abuse. (Penguin) How trauma affects the body and mind, and innovative treatments for recovery. 2 THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO, by Taylor Jenkins 26 Reid. (Washington Square) A movie icon recounts stories of her 2 THE SISTERS OF AUSCHWITZ, by Roxane van Iperen. (Harper) 1 loves and career to a struggling magazine writer. Janny and Lien Brilleslijper from Amsterdam were sent by train to Auschwitz when the Jewish safehouse they created in the woods 3 WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING, by Delia Owens. (Putnam) In a 23 was discovered. quiet town on the North Carolina coast in 1969, a young woman who survived alone in the marsh becomes a murder suspect. 3 BRAIDING SWEETGRASS, by Robin Wall Kimmerer. (Milkweed 73 Editions) A botanist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation 4 THE SONG OF ACHILLES, by Madeline Miller. (Ecco) A 46 espouses having an understanding and appreciation of plants and reimagining of Homer’s “Iliad” that is narrated by Achilles’ animals. companion Patroclus. 4 BORN A CRIME, by Trevor Noah. (One World) A memoir about 134 5 PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION, by Emily Henry. (Berkley) 17 growing up biracial in apartheid South Africa by the host of “The Opposites Poppy and Alex meet to vacation together one more Daily Show.” time in hopes of saving their relationship. 5 SAPIENS, by Yuval Noah Harari. (Harper Perennial) How Homo 160 6 NINE PERFECT STRANGERS, by Liane Moriarty. (Flatiron) A 16 sapiens became Earth’s dominant species. romance writer becomes fascinated by the owner and director of a health resort. 6 JUST MERCY, by Bryan Stevenson. (One World) A civil rights 265 lawyer and MacArthur grant recipient’s memoir of his decades of 7 THE RETURN, by Nicholas Sparks. (Grand Central) A doctor 4 work to free innocent people condemned to death. serving in the Navy in Afghanistan goes back to North Carolina where two women change his life. 7 THINKING, FAST AND SLOW, by Daniel Kahneman. (Farrar, 286 Straus & Giroux) When we can and cannot trust our intuitions in 8 UGLY LOVE, by Colleen Hoover. (Atria) A casual sexual 6 making business and personal decisions. relationship between Tate and Miles becomes more complicated than they expected. 8 MY GRANDMOTHER’S HANDS, by Resmaa Menakem. (Central 27 Recovery) A therapist who specializes in trauma, body-centered 9 VERITY, by Colleen Hoover. (Colleen Hoover) Lowen Ashleigh is 5 psychotherapy and violence prevention explains racism’s effect on hired by the husband of an injured writer to complete her popular the body. series and uncovers a horrifying truth. 9 KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL, by Anthony Bourdain. (Ecco) A 72 10 THE GUEST LIST, by Lucy Foley. (Morrow) A wedding between 5 memoir-exposé of the restaurant world. Originally published in a TV star and a magazine publisher on an island off the coast of 2000. Ireland turns deadly. 10 THE GLASS CASTLE, by Jeannette Walls. (Scribner) The author 449 11 ANXIOUS PEOPLE, by Fredrik Backman. (Washington Square/ 9 recalls how she and her siblings were constantly moved from one Atria) A failed bank robber holds a group of strangers hostage at bleak place to another. (†) an apartment open house. 11 THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS, by Rebecca 228 12 BEACH READ, by Emily Henry. (Berkley) A relationship develops 27 Skloot. (Broadway) The story of a woman whose cancer cells were between a literary fiction author and a romance novelist as they cultured without her permission in 1951. both try to overcome writer’s block. 12 THE DEEPEST SOUTH OF ALL, by Richard Grant. (Simon & 1 13 THE HEART PRINCIPLE, by Helen Hoang. (Berkley) The third 1 Schuster) The history and people of Natchez, Miss., includes book in the Kiss Quotient series. A violinist with a viral video slavery and the election of a gay Black man as mayor. explores a new relationship after being hurt by her boyfriend. 13 GRIT, by Angela Duckworth. (Scribner) The MacArthur Fellow 92 14 CIRCE, by Madeline Miller. (Back Bay) Zeus banishes Helios’ 65 argues that passion and perseverance are more important than daughter to an island, where she must choose between living with innate talent in creating success. gods or mortals. 14 AGENT SONYA, by Ben Macintyre. (Crown) Ursula Burton, who 5 15 THE SILENT PATIENT, by Alex Michaelides. (Celadon) Theo Faber 18 resided in the English Cotswolds in 1942 with her family, turned looks into the mystery of a famous painter who stops speaking out to have been a high-ranking Soviet intelligence officer seeking after shooting her husband. scientific secrets to build the bomb. 15 KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON, by David Grann. (Vintage) 95 The story of a murder spree in 1920s Oklahoma that targeted Osage Indians, whose lands contained oil. The fledgling F.B.I. intervened, ineffectively.
Copyright © 2021 by The New York Times Rankings reflect sales for the week ending September 4, which are reported on a confidential basis by vendors offering a wide range of general interest titles. Every week, thousands of diverse selling lo- cations report their actual sales on hundreds of thousands of individual titles. The panel of reporting retailers is comprehensive and reflects sales in stores of all sizes and demographics across the United States. Sales are statistically weighted to represent and accurately reflect all outlets proportionally nationwide. Among the categories not actively tracked at this time are: perennial sellers, required classroom reading, textbooks, reference and test preparation guides, e-books available exclusively from a single vendor, journals, workbooks, calorie counters, shopping guides, periodicals and cross- word puzzles. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book’s sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A dagger (†) indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders. The New York Times Best Sellers are compiled and archived by The Best-Seller Lists Desk of The New York Times News Department, and are separate from the Editorial, Culture, Advertising and Business sides of The New York Times Company. More information on rankings and full methodology: www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/methodology. Best Sellers Children’s
September 19, 2021
THIS WEEKS THIS WEEKS WEEK Middle Grade Hardcover ON LIST WEEK Young Adult Hardcover ON LIST 1 WONDER, by R.J. Palacio. (Knopf) A boy with a facial deformity 312 1 ONE OF US IS LYING, by Karen M. McManus. (Delacorte) For 188 starts school. (Ages 8 to 12) five students, a detour into detention ends in murder. (Ages 14 and up) 2 REFUGEE, by Alan Gratz. (Scholastic) Three children in three 146 different conflicts look for safe haven. (Ages 9 to 12) 2 THE WITCH HAVEN, by Sasha Peyton Smith. (Simon & 1 Schuster) Frances Hallowell is whisked away to a school for 3 WE ARE FAMILY, by LeBron James and Andrea Williams. 1 witches called Haxahaven. (Ages 14 and up) (HarperCollins) Friends rally together to save their after-school basketball program, known as Hoop Group. (Ages 8 to 12) 3 THE HATE U GIVE, by Angie Thomas. (Balzer + Bray) A 16-year- 230 old girl sees a police officer kill her friend. (Ages 14 and up) 4 GROUND ZERO, by Alan Gratz. (Scholastic) Parallel storylines of 24 Brandon and Reshmina take place on Sept. 11th, in 2001 and 4 STAMPED, by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi. (Little, Brown) 75 2019. (Ages 9 to 12) An exploration of racism and antiracism in America. (Ages 13 to 17) 5 THE ICKABOG, by J.K. Rowling. (Scholastic) A fearsome monster 43 threatens the kingdom of Cornucopia. (Ages 8 to 18) 5 DEAR EVAN HANSEN: THE NOVEL, by Val Emmich with Steven 42 Levenson, Benj Pasek & Justin Paul. (Poppy) When one of Evan’s 6 THE OFFICIAL HARRY POTTER BAKING BOOK, by Joanna 7 letters to himself is accidentally found on a suicide victim, the Farrow. (Scholastic) Forty-three tasty recipes inspired by the Harry victim’s family assumes that he was a close friend. (Ages 14 and Potter films. (Ages 10 to 18) up) 7 ALI CROSS: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON, by James Patterson. 10 6 THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS, by Chloe Gong. (Margaret K. 18 (jimmy patterson) Ali investigates the shooting of new friend, Zoe. McElderry) A reimagining of Romeo and Juliet set in 1920s (Ages 10 to 14) Shanghai. (Ages 14 to 18) 8 THE ONE AND ONLY BOB, by Katherine Applegate. Illustrated by 70 7 REALM BREAKER, by Victoria Aveyard. (HarperTeen) A small 18 Patricia Castelao. (HarperCollins) In this sequel to “The One and band of misfits attempt to save Allward. (Ages 13 and up) Only Ivan,” Bob sets out on a dangerous journey in search of his long-lost sister. (Ages 8 to 12) 8 GOOD GIRL, BAD BLOOD, by Holly Jackson. (Delacorte) Pip 18 investigates the disappearance of her friend. (Ages 14 and up) 9 AMARI AND THE NIGHT BROTHERS, by B.B. Alston. (Balzer 31 + Bray) Amari Peters competes for a spot at the Bureau of 9 LORE, by Alexandra Bracken. (Disney-Hyperion) To get revenge 34 Supernatural Affairs. (Ages 8 to 12) for her family’s murder, Lore must re-enter a hunt know as the Agon. (Ages 14 to 18) 10 BEST NERDS FOREVER, by James Patterson and Chris 15 Grabenstein. (jimmy patterson) As a ghost, Finn attempts to solve 10 THE COUSINS, by Karen M. McManus. (Delacorte) Three cousins 23 his own murder. (Ages 10 to 14) learn about their family’s dark past. (Ages 14 to 17)
Copyright © 2021 by The New York Times Rankings reflect sales for the week ending September 4, which are reported on a confidential basis by vendors offering a wide range of general interest titles published in the United States. Every week, thousands of diverse selling locations report their actual sales on hundreds of thousands of individual titles. The panel of reporting retailers is comprehensive and reflects sales in tens of thousands of stores of all sizes and demographics across the United States. Sales are statistically weighted to represent and accurately reflect all outlets proportionally nationwide. Among the categories not actively tracked at this time are: perennial sellers, required classroom reading, textbooks, reference and test preparation guides, e-books available exclusively from a single vendor, journals, workbooks, calorie counters, shopping guides, periodicals and crossword puzzles. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book’s sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A dagger (†) indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders. The New York Times Best Sellers are compiled and archived by The Best-Seller Lists Desk of The New York Times News Department, and are separate from the Editorial, Culture, Advertising and Business sides of The New York Times Company. More information on rankings and full methodology: www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/methodology. Best Sellers Children’s
September 19, 2021
THIS WEEKS THIS WEEKS WEEK Picture Books ON LIST WEEK Series ON LIST 1 TIME FOR SCHOOL, LITTLE BLUE TRUCK, by Alice Schertle. 11 1 DIARY OF A WIMPY KID, written and illustrated by Jeff Kinney. 651 Illustrated by Jill McElmurry. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Blue (Amulet) The travails and challenges of adolescence. (Ages 9 to gives a friend a ride to school. (Ages 4 to 7) 12) 2 THE PIGEON HAS TO GO TO SCHOOL!, by Mo Willems. 39 2 SPY SCHOOL, by Stuart Gibbs. (Simon & Schuster) In a case of 11 (Hyperion) Pigeon deals with the anxieties of going to school for mistaken identity, a boy is recruited into a junior C.I.A. academy. the first time. (Ages 3 to 5) (Ages 8 to 12) 3 THE BAD SEED PRESENTS: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE 2 3 HARRY POTTER, by J.K. Rowling. (Scholastic) A wizard hones his 650 SPOOKY, by Jory John. Illustrated by Pete Oswald. (HarperCollins) conjuring skills in the service of fighting evil. (Ages 10 and up) Bad Seed seeks the perfect Halloween costume. (Ages 4 to 8) 4 AWESOME FRIENDLY KID, written and illustrated by Jeff Kinney. 25 4 TOMATOES FOR NEELA, by Padma Lakshmi. Illustrated by Juana 1 (Amulet) Rowley Jefferson chronicles his life story and adventures. Martinez-Neal. (Viking) A mother and daughter preserve tomatoes (Ages 9 to 12) together. (Ages 3 to 7) 5 PERCY JACKSON & THE OLYMPIANS, by Rick Riordan. (Disney- 587 5 GUSTAVO, THE SHY GHOST, by Flavia Z. Drago. (Candlewick) A 1 Hyperion) A boy battles mythological monsters. (Ages 9 to 12) ghost learns to overcome his social anxiety. (Ages 3 to 7) 6 THE TWILIGHT SAGA, by Stephenie Meyer. (Little, Brown) 273 6 THE WONDERFUL THINGS YOU WILL BE, by Emily Winfield 278 Vampires and werewolves and their intrigues in high school. (Ages Martin. (Random House) A celebration of future possibilities. 12 and up) (Ages 3 to 7) 7 SHADOW AND BONE TRILOGY, by Leigh Bardugo. (Square 26 7 DRAGONS LOVE TACOS, by Adam Rubin. Illustrated by Daniel 324 Fish) The basis of the Netflix series; previously titled “The Grisha Salmieri. (Dial) What to serve your dragon-guests. (Ages 3 to 5) Trilogy.” (Ages 12 to 18) 8 GRUMPY MONKEY, by Suzanne Lang. Illustrated by Max Lang. 62 8 CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS, written and illustrated by Dav Pilkey. 264 (Random House) Jim Panzee is having a bad day. (Ages 3 to 7) (Scholastic) Boys and their principal fight evil. (Ages 7 to 10) 9 THE DAY YOU BEGIN, by Jacqueline Woodson. Illustrated 35 9 WINGS OF FIRE, by Tui T. Sutherland. (Scholastic) Only the five 130 by Rafael López. (Nancy Paulsen) A group of school children dragonets of destiny can unite the seven warring dragon tribes. embrace their differences. (Ages 5 to 8) (Ages 9 to 12) 10 HOW TO CATCH A UNICORN, by Adam Wallace. Illustrated by 35 10 THE LAST KIDS ON EARTH, by Max Brallier. Illustrated by 80 Andy Elkerton. (Sourcebooks Wonderland) Children attempt to Douglas Holgate. (Viking) Jack and his friends fight for their lives capture the mythical creature. (Ages 4 to 8) through the zombie apocalypse. (Ages 8 to 12)
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Picture Book rankings include hardcover sales only. Series rankings include all print and e-book sales. Sales are statistically weighted to represent and accurately reflect all outlets proportionally na- tionwide. Among the categories not actively tracked at this time are: perennial sellers, required classroom reading, textbooks, reference and test preparation guides, e-books available exclusively from a single vendor, journals, workbooks, calorie counters, shopping guides, periodicals and crossword puzzles. The New York Times Best Sellers are compiled and archived by The Best-Seller Lists Desk of The New York Times News Department, and are separate from the Editorial, Culture, Advertising and Business sides of The New York Times Company. More information on rankings and full methodol- ogy: www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/methodology. Best Sellers Audio Monthly
September 19, 2021
THIS MONTHS THIS MONTHS MONTH Audio Fiction ON LIST MONTH Audio Nonfiction ON LIST 1 BILLY SUMMERS, by Stephen King. (Simon & Schuster Audio) 1 1 GREENLIGHTS, by Matthew McConaughey. (Random House 11 A killer for hire who only takes out bad guys seeks redemption. Audio) The Academy Award-winning actor shares snippets from Read by Paul Sparks. 16 hours, 55 minutes unabridged. the diaries he kept over the last 35 years. Read by the author. 6 hours, 42 minutes unabridged. 2 THE LAST THING HE TOLD ME, by Laura Dave. (Simon & Schuster 4 Audio) Hannah Hall discovers truths about her missing husband. 2 WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU?, by Bruce D. Perry and Oprah 5 Read by Rebecca Lowman. 8 hours, 49 minutes unabridged. Winfrey. (Macmillan Audio) An approach to dealing with trauma that shifts an essential question used to investigate it. Read by 3 PROJECT HAIL MARY, by Andy Weir. (Audible Studios) Ryland 4 the authors. 8 hours, 27 minutes unabridged. Grace awakes from a long sleep alone and far from home, and the fate of humanity rests on his shoulders. Read by Ray Porter. 16 3 AMERICAN MARXISM, by Mark R. Levin. (Simon & Schuster 2 hours, 10 minutes unabridged. Audio) The Fox News host gives his take on the Green New Deal, critical race theory and social activism. Read by Jeremy Lowell 4 DUNE, by Frank Herbert. (Macmillan Audio) The 1965 science 4 and the author. 9 hours, 46 minutes unabridged. fiction novel that is the basis of several adaptations, including the forthcoming film directed by Denis Villeneuve. Read by Scott 4 THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE, by Bessel van der Kolk. (Penguin 10 Brick, Orlagh Cassidy, Euan Morton, Simon Vance and Ilyana Audio) How trauma affects the body and mind, and innovative Kadushin. 21 hours, 2 minutes unabridged. treatments for recovery. Read by Sean Pratt. 16 hours, 17 minutes unabridged. 5 WE WERE NEVER HERE, by Andrea Bartz. (Random House 1 Audio) Will the secrets Emily shares with Kristen about violent 5 BREATHE, by Rickson Gracie with Peter Maguire. (HarperAudio) 1 incidents in the past ruin her life? Read by Becca Tobin. 10 hours, A memoir by the former Brazilian jiu-jitsu and mixed martial arts 50 minutes unabridged. competitor. Read by Fred Sanders. 6 hours, 33 minutes unabridged. 6 THE MADNESS OF CROWDS, by Louise Penny. (Macmillan 1 6 I ALONE CAN FIX IT, by Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker. 2 Audio) The 17th book in the Chief Inspector Gamache series. (Penguin Audio) The Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters examine Gamache is tasked with providing security for a statistics Trump’s final year in office, with a focus on the key players around professor whose views are repulsive to him. Read by Robert him. Read by January LaVoy and the authors. 19 hours, 24 Bathurst. 14 hours, 51 minutes unabridged. minutes unabridged. 7 THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY, by Matt Haig. (Penguin Audio) Nora 9 7 THE LONG SLIDE, by Tucker Carlson. (Simon & Schuster Audio) 1 Seed finds a library beyond the edge of the universe that contains A collection of previously published essays from 1995 to 2016 books with multiple possibilities. Read by Carey Mulligan. 8 hours, by the Fox News host. Read by the author. 6 hours, 22 minutes 50 minutes unabridged. unabridged. 8 MALIBU RISING, by Taylor Jenkins Reid. (Random House Audio) 3 8 EXTREME OWNERSHIP, by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin. 38 An epic party has serious outcomes for four famous siblings. Read (Macmillan Audio) Applying the principles of Navy SEALs by Julia Whelan. 11 hours, 5 minutes unabridged. leadership training to any organization. Read by the authors. 8 hours, 15 minutes unabridged. 9 THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO, by Taylor Jenkins 2 Reid. (Simon & Schuster Audio) A movie icon recounts stories of 9 UNTAMED, by Glennon Doyle. (Random House Audio) The activist 18 her loves and career to a struggling writer. Read by Alma Cuervo, and public speaker describes her journey of listening to her inner Julia Whelan and Robin Miles. 12 hours, 10 minutes unabridged. voice. Read by the author. 8 hours, 22 minutes unabridged. 10 BLOODLESS, by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. (Hachette 1 10 MEATEATER’S CAMPFIRE STORIES: CLOSE CALLS, by 2 Audio) The 20th book in the Pendergast series. Bodies found Steven Rinella. (Random House Audio) A collection of outdoor without blood in their veins might be connected to an unsolved adventures and dangerous encounters. Read by the author and skyjacking. Read by William DeMeritt. 10 hours, 56 minutes other contributors. 5 hours, 15 minutes unabridged. unabridged. 11 A PROMISED LAND, by Barack Obama. (Random House Audio) 10 11 NOLYN, by Michael J. Sullivan. (Audible Studios) The first book 1 In the first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama in the Rise and Fall series. Read by Tim Gerard Reynolds, Robin offers personal reflections on his formative years and pivotal Sullivan and the author. 13 hours, 51 minutes unabridged. moments through his first term. Read by the author. 29 hours, 10 minutes unabridged. 12 THE PAPER PALACE, by Miranda Cowley Heller. (Penguin Audio) 2 After an extramarital dalliance, Elle must choose between her 12 THE AUTHORITARIAN MOMENT, by Ben Shapiro. (HarperAudio) 2 husband and her childhood love. Read by Nan McNamara, 12 The conservative commentator depicts what he perceives as hours, 37 minutes unabridged. threats to American business, education and politics. Read by the author. 6 hours, 11 minutes unabridged. 13 WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING, by Delia Owens. (Penguin 35 Audio) A young woman who survived alone in the marsh becomes 13 THE RECKONING, by Mary L. Trump. (Macmillan Audio) The 1 a murder suspect. Read by Cassandra Campbell. 12 hours, 12 author of “Too Much and Never Enough” examines potential minutes unabridged. trauma caused by current and historical events. Read by the author. 5 hours, 32 minutes unabridged. 14 IT ENDS WITH US, by Colleen Hoover. (Simon & Schuster Audio) 1 A battered wife raised in a violent home attempts to halt the cycle 14 BORN A CRIME, by Trevor Noah. (Audible Studios) A memoir 39 of abuse. Read by Olivia Song. 11 hours, 11 minutes unabridged. about growing up in South Africa by the host of “The Daily Show.” Read by the author. 8 hours, 50 minutes unabridged. 15 THE FOUR WINDS, by Kristin Hannah. (Macmillan Audio) As 7 dust storms roll during the Great Depression, Elsa must choose 15 SAPIENS, by Yuval Noah Harari. (HarperAudio) How Homo 33 between saving the family and farm or heading West. Read by sapiens became Earth’s dominant species. Read by Derek Julia Whelan. 15 hours, 2 minutes unabridged. Perkins. 15 hours, 17 minutes unabridged.
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The titles ranked in these monthly Audiobook Best-Seller Lists are tabulated by the Best-Seller List editors from sales in the United States of digital and physical audio products for the month of August. Sales of titles published in the United States are statistically weighted to represent and accurately reflect all outlets proportionally nationwide. Free-trial or low-cost trial audiobook sales are not eligible for inclusion. Publisher credits for audiobooks are listed under the audiobook publisher name. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book’s sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A dagger (†) indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders. The New York Times Best Sellers are compiled and archived by The Best-Seller Lists Desk of The New York Times News Department, and are separate from the Editorial, Culture, Advertising and Business sides of The New York Times Company. More information on rankings and full methodology: www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers. Best Sellers Monthly
September 19, 2021
THIS MONTHS THIS MONTHS MONTH Graphic Books and Manga ON LIST MONTH Mass Market ON LIST 1 MOTHERING HEIGHTS, by Dav Pilkey. (Scholastic) The 10th 6 1 ROYAL, by Danielle Steel. (Dell) In 1943, the 17-year-old 1 book in the Dog Man series. Can the power of love overcome the Princess Charlotte assumes a new identity in the country and falls darkness and despair created by new villains? in love. 2 JUJUTSU KAISEN, VOL. 11, by Gege Akutami. (VIZ Media) Yuji 1 2 FAITHLESS IN DEATH, by J.D. Robb. (St. Martin’s) The 52nd 2 Itadori is contacted by an unlikely ally while Satoru Gojo battles book of the In Death series. Eve Dallas investigates the murder of the cursed spirits at Shibuya Station. a young sculptor in the West Village. 3 DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA, VOL. 23, by Koyoharu 1 3 A TIME FOR MERCY, by John Grisham. (Dell) The third book 2 Gotouge. (VIZ Media) The end of a centuries-long struggle might in the Jake Brigance series. A 16-year-old is accused of killing a be at hand if Tanjiro Kamado can defeat the King of Demons deputy in Clanton, Miss., in 1990. Muzan Kibutsuji. 4 BLINDSIDE, by James Patterson and James O. Born. (Grand 1 4 CHAINSAW MAN, VOL. 6, by Tatsuki Fujimoto. (VIZ Media) 1 Central) The 12th book in the Michael Bennett series. A serial- Chainsaw Man meets a new girl named Reze who is not what she killing spree might impact national security. seems. 5 YOU BETRAYED ME, by Lisa Jackson. (Zebra) The third book in 1 5 GRIME AND PUNISHMENT, by Dav Pilkey. (Scholastic) The ninth 7 the Cahills series. A womanizer from a rich family wakes up in an book in the Dog Man series. After turning in his badge, the canine out-of-state hospital. cop is determined not to just roll over. 6 FAIR WARNING, by Michael Connelly. (Grand Central) The third 1 6 SENSOR, by Junji Ito. (VIZ Media) A village near Mount Sengoku 1 book in the Jack McEvoy series. A reporter tracks a killer who uses is covered in hairlike volcanic glass fibers, and unidentified flying genetic data to pick his victims. objects rain down at night. 7 THE COURTSHIP OF CAROL SOMMARS, by Debbie Macomber. 1 7 BRAWL OF THE WILD, by Dav Pilkey. (Scholastic) The sixth 4 (Harlequin) A nurse is set up by her teenage son to see his best book in the Dog Man series. When he is wrongly sent to the friend’s father. pound, Dog Man’s friends try to prove his innocence. 8 DEADLOCK, by Catherine Coulter. (Pocket) The 24th book in the 1 8 DOG MAN, by Dav Pilkey. (Scholastic) A dog’s head is combined 1 F.B.I. Thriller series. A young wife, a psychopath and three red with a policeman’s body to create this hybrid supercop hound. boxes puzzle agents Savich and Sherlock. 9 MY HERO ACADEMIA, VOL. 28, by Kohei Horikoshi. (VIZ Media) 3 9 THE INSTITUTE, by Stephen King. (Pocket) Children with special 2 As the war against the Paranormal Liberation Front continues, talents are abducted and sequestered in an institution where the Midoriya senses an ominous presence in the hospital. sinister staff seeks to extract their gifts through harsh methods. 10 DOG MAN UNLEASHED, by Dav Pilkey. (Scholastic) The second 1 10 DEVIL IN DISGUISE, by Lisa Kleypas. (Avon) The seventh book 2 book in the Dog Man series. Petey the Cat’s criminal curiosity in the Ravenels series. Lady Merritt Sterling falls for a Scottish causes trouble. whisky distiller who is in danger. 11 CAT KID COMIC CLUB, by Dav Pilkey. (Scholastic) Stories within 9 11 LOVED YOU FIRST, by Nora Roberts. (Silhouette) Two romance 1 a story come to life as Li’l Petey, Flippy and Molly show baby frogs stories: “Falling for Rachel” and “Convincing Alex.” how to create comics. 12 HUNTER’S MOON, by William W. Johnstone and J. A. Johnstone. 1 12 LORD OF THE FLEAS, by Dav Pilkey. (Scholastic) The fifth book 2 (Pinnacle) The third book in the Hunter Buchanon Black Hills in the Dog Man series. The villainous cat Petey becomes an western series. Grizzly bear attacks at a cattle ranch during a blue unlikely ally. moon are said to be a bad omen. 13 THE BAD GUYS IN CUT TO THE CHASE, by Aaron Blabey. 2 13 HEART AND SOUL, by Nora Roberts. (St. Martin’s) Two romance 1 (Scholastic) The 13th book in the Bad Guys series. What lies stories: “From This Day” and “Storm Warning.” beyond a mysterious doorway in the grossest restaurant in the world? 14 ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD, by Quentin Tarantino. 3 (Harper Perennial) A novelization of the film set in 1969, by its 14 KAREN’S KITTYCAT CLUB, by Ann M. Martin. Illustrated by Katy 2 director and screenwriter. Farina. (Scholastic) The fourth book in the Baby-Sitters Little Sister series. Will Karen and her friends get hired to cat-sit? 15 THE BOY FROM THE WOODS, by Harlan Coben. (Grand Central) 2 When a girl goes missing, a private investigator’s feral childhood 15 THE TWISTED ONES, by Scott Cawthon and Kira Breed-Wrisley. 6 becomes an asset in the search. (Scholastic) The second book in the Five Nights at Freddy’s series. When bodies are found near her school, Charlie is drawn back into the world of her father’s creations.
Copyright © 2021 by The New York Times The titles ranked in these monthly Best-Seller Lists are tabulated by the editors of the Best-Seller Lists, from graphic books in hardcover, paperback, manga and digital formats and from mass-market paperback books, sold and published in the United States, and reported to The New York Times during August. Adult, children’s, young adult, fiction and nonfiction graphic books are eligible for inclusion on the graphic books list. Children’s series titles are not eligible for inclusion on the monthly graphic books list. Sales are statistically weighted to represent and accurately reflect all outlets proportion- ally nationwide. Among the categories not actively tracked at this time are: perennial sellers, required classroom reading, textbooks, reference and test preparation guides, e-books available exclusively from a single vendor, journals, workbooks, calorie counters, shopping guides, periodicals and crossword puzzles. An asterisk (*) indicates that a title’s sales are barely distinguishable from those of the title ranked above. A dagger (†) indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders. The New York Times Best Sellers are compiled and archived by The Best-Seller Lists Desk of The New York Times News Department, and are separate from the Editorial, Culture, Advertising and Business sides of The New York Times Company. More information on rankings and full methodology: www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/methodology. Best Sellers Advice, How-To & Misc. and Monthly
September 19, 2021
THIS WEEKS THIS WEEK Advice, How-to and Miscellaneous ON LIST MONTH Business 1 ATOMIC HABITS, by James Clear. (Avery) (†) 93 1 ATOMIC HABITS, by James Clear. (Avery) (†)
2 THE BOY, THE MOLE, THE FOX AND THE HORSE, by Charlie 92 2 WOKE, INC., by Vivek Ramaswamy. (Center Street) (†) Mackesy. (HarperOne) 3 THE WEEKDAY VEGETARIANS, by Jenny Rosenstrach. (Clarkson 1 3 FOUR THOUSAND WEEKS, by Oliver Burkeman. (Farrar, Straus Potter) & Giroux) 4 THE SUBTLE ART OF NOT GIVING A F*CK, by Mark Manson. 218 4 DARE TO LEAD, by Brené Brown. (Random House) (Harper) (†) 5 YOU ARE A BADASS, by Jen Sincero. (Running Press) 244 5 THE FAMILY FIRM, by Emily Oster. (Penguin Press)
THE FIVE LOVE LANGUAGES, by Gary Chapman. (Northfield) 347 6 OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Back Bay/Little, Brown) 6 DARE TO LEAD, by Brené Brown. (Random House) 57 7 THINKING, FAST AND SLOW, by Daniel Kahneman. (Farrar, 7 Straus & Giroux) 8 THE GIFTS OF IMPERFECTION, by Brené Brown. (Random 91 8 EXTREME OWNERSHIP, by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin. (St. House) Martin’s) (†) MAKE YOUR BED, by William H. McRaven. (Grand Central) 105 9 I WILL TEACH YOU TO BE RICH, SECOND EDITION, by Ramit 9 Sethi. (Workman) 10 GET OUT OF YOUR HEAD, by Jennie Allen. (WaterBrook) (†) 37 10 GRIT, by Angela Duckworth. (Scribner)
Copyright © 2021 by The New York Times The category Advice, How-To, and Miscellaneous Best Sellers includes both print and e-book sales. The titles ranked in these monthly Best-Seller Lists are tabulated by the Best-Seller List editors from among all adult nonfiction print and e-book titles sold and published in the United States, and reported to The New York Times during August. Sales are statistically weighted to represent and accurately reflect all outlets proportionally nationwide. Among the categories not actively tracked at this time are: perennial sellers, required classroom reading, textbooks, reference and test preparation guides, e-books available exclusively from a single vendor, journals, workbooks, calorie counters, shopping guides, periodicals and crossword puzzles. An asterisk (*) indicates that a title’s sales are barely distin- guishable from those of the title ranked above. A dagger (†) indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders. The New York Times Best Sellers are compiled and archived by The Best-Seller Lists Desk of The New York Times News Department, and are separate from the Editorial, Culture, Advertising and Business sides of The New York Times Company. More information on rankings and full methodology: www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/methodology. Best Sellers Monthly
September 19, 2021
THIS THIS MONTH Middle Grade Paperback MONTH Young Adult Paperback 1 A LONG WALK TO WATER, by Linda Sue Park. (Houghton Mifflin 1 THEY BOTH DIE AT THE END, by Adam Silvera. (Quill Tree) Harcourt) 2 THE CROSSOVER, by Kwame Alexander. (Houghton Mifflin 2 WE WERE LIARS, by E. Lockhart. (Ember) Harcourt) 3 THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN, by Katherine Applegate. Illustrated by 3 A GOOD GIRL’S GUIDE TO MURDER, by Holly Jackson. (Ember) Patricia Castelao. (HarperCollins) 4 RESTART, by Gordon Korman. (Scholastic) 4 14 WAYS TO DIE, by Vincent Ralph. (Sourcebooks Fire)
5 FISH IN A TREE, by Lynda Mullaly Hunt. (Puffin) 5 SIX OF CROWS, by Leigh Bardugo. (Square Fish)
6 OUT OF MY MIND, by Sharon M. Draper. (Atheneum) 6 THE INHERITANCE GAMES, by Jennifer Lynn Barnes. (Little, Brown) 7 WISH, by Barbara O’Connor. (Square Fish) 7 THE BOOK THIEF, by Markus Zusak. (Knopf)
8 BROWN GIRL DREAMING, by Jacqueline Woodson. (Puffin) 8 LONG WAY DOWN, by Jason Reynolds. (Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy) 9 I AM MALALA, by Malala Yousafzai with Patricia McCormick. 9 THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART-TIME INDIAN, by (Little, Brown) Sherman Alexie. Illustrated by Ellen Forney. (Little, Brown) 10 INSIDE OUT AND BACK AGAIN, by Thanhha Lai. (HarperCollins) 10 THE LAKE, by Natasha Preston. (Delacorte)
Copyright © 2021 by The New York Times The titles ranked in these monthly Best-Seller Lists are tabulated by the editors of the Best-Seller Lists, from Middle Grade and Young Adult paperback books, sold and published in the United States, and reported to The New York Times during August. Sales are statistically weighted to represent and accurately reflect all outlets proportionally nationwide. Among the categories not actively tracked at this time are: perennial sellers, required classroom reading, textbooks, reference and test preparation guides, e-books available exclusively from a single vendor, journals, workbooks, calorie counters, shopping guides, periodicals and crossword puzzles. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book’s sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A dagger (†) indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders. The New York Times Best Sellers are compiled and archived by The Best-Seller Lists Desk of The New York Times News Department, and are separate from the Editorial, Culture, Advertising and Business sides of The New York Times Company. More information on rankings and full methodology: www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/methodology. Best Sellers
September 19, 2021 EDITORS’ CHOICE/STAFF PICKS FROM THE BOOK REVIEW
BEAUTIFUL WORLD, WHERE ARE YOU, by Sally A BRIEF HISTORY OF MOTION: From the Wheel, to PARIS IS A PARTY, PARIS IS A GHOST, by David Hoon Rooney. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $28.) In Rooney’s the Car, to What Comes Next, by Tom Standage. Kim. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $26.) In Kim’s debut muchanticipated third novel, readers follow the (Bloomsbury, $28.) Standage offers an eminently novel, a translator in Paris finds himself racked lives of Alice, a writer of global acclaim, and her readable history of 5,000 years of human with guilt after the sudden death of his lover, and best friend, Eileen, who works at a literary movement undertaken not by foot or by feather, strangely compelled to follow strangers. This magazine in Dublin. The two grapple with life’s but by way of the wheel. The book comes into its meandering but richly written book explores the biggest (and most inconsequential) issues in a own in more modern times, looking at our current often doomed impulse to fill the voids in our lives. lively correspondence. landscape and the future of electronic and self-driving cars. BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY: A Memoir, by Qian Julie Wang. GOD, HUMAN, ANIMAL, MACHINE: Technology, (Doubleday, $28.95.) In 1994, Wang moved from Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning, by Meghan THE DOPE: The Real History of the Mexican Drug China to Brooklyn with her family. This is her O’Gieblyn. (Doubleday, $28.) In brainy, loosely linked Trade, by Benjamin T. Smith. (Norton, $30.) Crammed memoir of their tumultuous early years building a chapters, O’Gieblyn eloquently dissects our with violence and mayhem, this chilling account life in an unfamiliar and mostly inhospitable techobsessed culture’s elevation of data and of America’s efforts to curtail drug traffic from place. quantification over qualitative experience, Mexico grimly concludes that as long as demand detecting in our relentless turn toward machines in the United States continues, the drug trade will HERE, RIGHT MATTERS: An American Story, by the remnants of a more humane, even spiritual not slow down. Alexander Vindman. (Harper/HarperCollins, $26.99.) A reality. major figure in the first Trump impeachment trial THREE ROOMS, by Jo Hamya. (Houghton Mifflin tells how he stepped into history by deciding to THE LOVE SONGS OF W.E.B. DU BOIS, by Honorée Harcourt, $25.) Following a young, unnamed testify against the president of the United States, Fanonne Jeffers. (HarperCollins, $28.99.) This woman of color armed with multiple degrees and and what the ramifications have been. triumphant debut novel follows a young Black a bitter experience of the job market, this debut woman figuring out how to live with joy in the novel invokes the reality of living in a world The full reviews of these and other recent books are on modern American South. The novel switches where a reasonable demand — a place to call the web: nytimes.com/books. between the past and the present, alternating the one’s own — is resolutely categorized as heroine’s story with those of her ancestors. unreasonable.
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HIS VERY BEST: Jimmy Carter, A Life, by Jonathan THIS IS HAPPINESS, by Niall Williams. (Bloomsbury, RED COMET: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Alter. (Simon & Schuster, 800 pp., $20.) Alter’s 400 pp., $17.) In what our reviewer, Elizabeth Sylvia Plath, by Heather Clark. (Vintage, 1,184 pp., “important, fair-minded” biography, David Graver, described as “a lush, wandering portrait” $20.) Drawing upon unpublished material, Greenberg wrote in his review, renders his of a fictional Irish village on the cusp of change, including Plath’s diaries and calendars, and subject with “a depth rarely achieved by political an aging narrator looks back at a trio of intersect- “previously unexamined police, court and hospital journalism.” The book “exposes Carter’s ing events from the spring of 1958: bringing records,” this “scrupulously researched” account, weaknesses as well as his undervalued strengths, electricity to the town; his hopeless crushes on all in the words of our reviewer, Daphne Merkin, is his reverberating failures as well as his unsung three of the local doctor’s daughters; and the “nothing short of mesmerizing,” recharting “a triumphs,” and shows how the qualities that arrival of a stranger intent on righting a past much-told but uncommonly intriguing narrative propelled him to the presidency “also kept him wrong. that has all too often been the object of fierce from rising to his historical moment.” partisanship.” SELF-PORTRAIT WITH RUSSIAN PIANO, by Wolf THE NEXT GREAT MIGRATION: The Beauty and Wondratschek. Translated by Marshall Yarbrough. SISTERS, by Daisy Johnson. (Riverhead, 224 pp., $16.) Terror of Life on the Move, by Sonia Shah. (Picador, 224 pp., $18.) Reading this first novel to be “Crammed with disturbing images and powered (Bloomsbury, 400 pp., $18.) A finalist for the PEN/E. published in America by the acclaimed septuage- by a dare-to-look-away velocity,” this Gothic novel O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, Shah’s narian German writer often compared to of “grief and guilt, identity and codependency, compassionate and insightful book argues that Kerouac, our reviewer, Ethan Hawke, became teenage girls and their mothers,” reminded our migration, for animals and humans, is a natural “newly excited about getting old.” He called the reviewer, Harriet Lane, “in its general refusal to biological phenomenon, not an irregular, book “egoless, sly, profound, funny, authentic and play nice,” of early Ian McEwan. disruptive force. utterly mysterious.” Jennifer Krauss
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