Rankings reflect sales for the week ended Nov. 18, which were reported on a confidential basis by vendors offering a wide range of general interest titles.
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 stores of all sizes and demographics across the United States.
An asterisk (*) indicates that a book’s sales were barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A (b) indicates that some bookstores reported receiving bulk orders.
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FICTION
1. FOURTH WING, by Rebecca Yarros. (Red Tower) Violet Sorrengail is urged by the commanding general, who also is her mother, to become a candidate for the elite dragon riders.
LAST WEEK: 2
WEEKS ON LIST: 28
2. IRON FLAME, by Rebecca Yarros. (Red Tower) The second book in the Empyrean series. Violet Sorrengail’s next round of training might require her to betray the man she loves.
LAST WEEK: 1
WEEKS ON LIST: 2
3. THE EDGE, by David Baldacci. (Grand Central) The second book in the 6:20 Man series. Travis Devine investigates the murder of CIA operative Jenny Silkwell in rural Maine.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
4. THE LITTLE LIAR, by Mitch Albom. (Harper) The actions of an 11-year-old boy help facilitate the delivery of Jewish residents, including his family, to Auschwitz.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
5. THE EXCHANGE, by John Grisham. (Doubleday) In a sequel to “The Firm,” Mitch McDeere, who is now a partner at the world’s largest law firm, gets caught up in a sinister plot.
LAST WEEK: 4
WEEKS ON LIST: 5
6. THE NARROW ROAD BETWEEN DESIRES, by Patrick Rothfuss. (DAW) Things go awry when Bast accepts a gift.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
7. THE HEAVEN & EARTH GROCERY STORE, by James McBride. (Riverhead) Secrets held by the residents of a dilapidated neighborhood come to life when a skeleton is found at the bottom of a well.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 13
8. RESURRECTION WALK, by Michael Connelly. (Little, Brown) The seventh book in the Lincoln Lawyer series. Haller and Bosch team up to prove the innocence of a woman in prison for the killing of her husband.
LAST WEEK: 3
WEEKS ON LIST: 2
9. LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY, by Bonnie Garmus. (Doubleday) A scientist and single mother living in California in the 1960s becomes a star on a TV cooking show.
LAST WEEK: 5
WEEKS ON LIST: 80
10. THE SECRET, by Lee Child and Andrew Child. (Delacorte) The 28th book in the Jack Reacher series. It’s 1992 and Reacher looks into the cause of a string of mysterious deaths.
LAST WEEK: 7
WEEKS ON LIST: 4
11. DIRTY THIRTY, by Janet Evanovich. (Atria) The 30th book in the Stephanie Plum series. Plum tracks a local jeweler’s former security guard and has an overnight stakeout with relatives.
LAST WEEK: 6
WEEKS ON LIST: 3
12. SYSTEM COLLAPSE, by Martha Wells. (Tordotcom) The seventh book in the Murderbot Diaries series. The Barish-Estranza corporation might take a colony of humans to use as a free workforce.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
13. PRETTY BOYS ARE POISONOUS, by Megan Fox. (Gallery) A collection of poems exploring how love relationships can affect one’s sense of identity.
LAST WEEK: 14
WEEKS ON LIST: 2
14. HOLLY, by Stephen King. (Scribner) Private detective Holly Gibney investigates whether a married pair of octogenarian academics had anything to do with Bonnie Dahl’s disappearance.
LAST WEEK: 8
WEEKS ON LIST: 11
15. DEMON COPPERHEAD, by Barbara Kingsolver. (Harper) Winner of a 2023 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. A re-imagining of Charles Dickens’ “David Copperfield” set in the mountains of southern Appalachia.
LAST WEEK: 10
WEEKS ON LIST: 55
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NONFICTION
1. FRIENDS, LOVERS, AND THE BIG TERRIBLE THING, by Matthew Perry. (Flatiron) The late actor, known for playing Chandler Bing on “Friends,” shares stories from his childhood and his struggles with sobriety.
LAST WEEK: 4
WEEKS ON LIST: 19
2. THE WOMAN IN ME, by Britney Spears. (Gallery) The Grammy Award-winning pop star details her personal and professional experiences, including the years she spent under a conservatorship overseen by her father.
LAST WEEK: 1
WEEKS ON LIST: 4
3. MY EFFIN’ LIFE, by Geddy Lee with Daniel Richler. (Harper) The musician known for his work with the band Rush chronicles his life as the child of Holocaust survivors and his time in the limelight.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
4. MY NAME IS BARBRA, by Barbra Streisand. (Viking) The EGOT winner chronicles her journey in show business and reveals details about some of her personal relationships.
LAST WEEK: 2
WEEKS ON LIST: 2
5. TIRED OF WINNING, by Jonathan Karl. (Dutton) The chief Washington correspondent for ABC News looks at Donald Trump’s impact on the Republican Party.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
6. GHOSTS OF HONOLULU, by Mark Harmon and Leon Carroll Jr.. (Harper Select) The story of a Japanese American naval intelligence agent, a Japanese spy and events in Hawaii before the start of World War II.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
7. PREQUEL, by Rachel Maddow. (Crown) The MSNBC host and co-author of “Bag Man” details a campaign to overthrow the U.S. government and install authoritarian rule before and during the U.S. involvement in World War II.
LAST WEEK: 3
WEEKS ON LIST: 5
8. THE WAGER, by David Grann. (Doubleday) The survivors of a shipwrecked British vessel on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain have different accounts of events.
LAST WEEK: 14
WEEKS ON LIST: 30
9. TEDDY AND BOOKER T., by Brian Kilmeade. (Sentinel) The Fox News host gives an account of the relationship between President Theodore Roosevelt and Booker T. Washington.
LAST WEEK: 9
WEEKS ON LIST: 2
10. ELON MUSK, by Walter Isaacson. (Simon & Schuster) The author of “The Code Breaker” traces Musk’s life and summarizes his work on electric vehicles, private space exploration and artificial intelligence.
LAST WEEK: 5
WEEKS ON LIST: 10
11. BEING HENRY, by Henry Winkler with James Kaplan. (Celadon) The Emmy Award-winning actor shares how playing roles such as the Fonz and his struggles with dyslexia affected his life.
LAST WEEK: 6
WEEKS ON LIST: 3
12. OUTLIVE, by Peter Attia with Bill Gifford. (Harmony) A look at recent scientific research on aging and longevity.
LAST WEEK: 13
WEEKS ON LIST: 34
13. UNWOKE, by Ted Cruz. (Regnery) The Republican senator from Texas shares his opinions on an assortment of American institutions.
LAST WEEK: 7
WEEKS ON LIST: 2
14. BEHIND THE SEAMS, by Dolly Parton with Holly George-Warren. (Ten Speed) The country music legend shares stories about her favorite outfits she has worn on and off the stage.
LAST WEEK: 12
WEEKS ON LIST: 5
15. THE UPCYCLED SELF, by Tariq Trotter and Jasmine Martin. (One World) A memoir by the rapper who is better known as Black Thought and is a Grammy Award-winning co-founder of the Roots.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
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