Rankings reflect sales for the week ended Jan. 24, 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. TWELVE MONTHS, by Jim Butcher. (Ace) The 18th book in the Dresden Files series. Chicago’s only professional wizard faces various dangers and becomes betrothed.
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WEEKS ON LIST: 1
2. HALF HIS AGE, by Jennette McCurdy. (Ballantine) A 17-year-old named Waldo has an inexplicable attraction to her creative writing teacher.
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WEEKS ON LIST: 1
3. THE CORRESPONDENT, by Virginia Evans. (Crown) Letters from someone she used to know push Sybil Van Antwerp toward revisiting her past and finding a way to forgive.
LAST WEEK: 1
WEEKS ON LIST: 13
4. MY HUSBAND’S WIFE, by Alice Feeney. (Pine & Cedar) In an old house in a seaside town, things may not be what they appear.
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WEEKS ON LIST: 1
5. THE THINGS WE LEAVE UNFINISHED, by Rebecca Yarros. (Amara) After a divorce, Georgia Stanton returns to Colorado and tries to protect her great-grandmother’s incomplete manuscript.
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WEEKS ON LIST: 1
6. THE WIDOW, by John Grisham. (Doubleday) When Simon Latch, a lawyer in rural Virginia, is accused of murder, he goes in search of the real killer.
LAST WEEK: 6
WEEKS ON LIST: 14
7. THE FIRST TIME I SAW HIM, by Laura Dave. (Scribner) Hannah’s husband turns up five years after he disappeared, which forces her to go on the run with her daughter.
LAST WEEK: 5
WEEKS ON LIST: 3
8. THE SECRET OF SECRETS, by Dan Brown. (Doubleday) As he searches for the missing noetic scientist he has been seeing, Robert Langdon discovers something regarding a secret project.
LAST WEEK: 7
WEEKS ON LIST: 20
9. ALCHEMISED, by SenLinYu. (Del Rey) After the war, an imprisoned alchemist is sent to a necromancer to recover her lost memories.
LAST WEEK: 8
WEEKS ON LIST: 18
10. ANATOMY OF AN ALIBI, by Ashley Elston. (Pamela Dorman) Two women enact a plan to uncover truths a man may have been hiding, but things go awry when he is found murdered.
LAST WEEK: 2
WEEKS ON LIST: 2
11. THE INTRUDER, by Freida McFadden. (Poisoned Pen) During a rough storm, Casey puts herself in danger when she lets a girl, who is covered in blood, into her cabin.
LAST WEEK: 10
WEEKS ON LIST: 15
12. BRIMSTONE, by Callie Hart. (Forever) The second book in the Fae & Alchemy series. To save those close to them, Saeris and Fisher face a new set of dangers.
LAST WEEK: 9
WEEKS ON LIST: 10
13. THE ELSEWHERE EXPRESS, by Samantha Sotto Yambao. (Del Rey) A magical train appears to lost souls who find it is full of wonders but also danger.
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WEEKS ON LIST: 1
14. CARL’S DOOMSDAY SCENARIO, by Matt Dinniman. (Ace) The second book in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series. Carl and Donut confront an ancient spell and heightened dangers.
LAST WEEK: 15
WEEKS ON LIST: 2
15. THE DEVIL’S DAUGHTER, by Danielle Steel. (Delacorte) In an effort to reconcile, estranged sisters Mickie and Billie try to overcome their different personalities and difficult family history.
LAST WEEK: 3
WEEKS ON LIST: 2
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NONFICTION
Peter Schweizer’s new book joins the list at No. 1 in nonfiction. (Courtesy/Harper)
1. THE INVISIBLE COUP, by Peter Schweizer. (Harper) The author of “Blood Money” puts forward his argument that mass migration is a political weapon.
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WEEKS ON LIST: 1
2. FOOTBALL, by Chuck Klosterman. (Penguin Press) The author of “The Nineties” considers how football has affected American life.
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WEEKS ON LIST: 1
3. 1929, by Andrew Ross Sorkin. (Viking) The New York Times journalist and CNBC host looks at the fight between Washington and Wall Street that fueled a historic crash of the stock market.
LAST WEEK: 3
WEEKS ON LIST: 15
4. NOBODY’S GIRL, by Virginia Roberts Giuffre. (Knopf) The late activist and advocate for sex-trafficking survivors describes her time with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
LAST WEEK: 4
WEEKS ON LIST: 14
5. THE ANXIOUS GENERATION, by Jonathan Haidt. (Penguin Press) A co-author of “The Coddling of the American Mind” looks at the mental health effects of a phone-based life on children.
LAST WEEK: 5
WEEKS ON LIST: 92
6. HOW TO TEST NEGATIVE FOR STUPID, by John Kennedy. (Broadside) The Republican senator from Louisiana shares stories about politics in Washington, D.C., and in his home state.
LAST WEEK: 6
WEEKS ON LIST: 16
7. THE OTHER SIDE OF CHANGE, by Maya Shankar. (Riverhead) The cognitive scientist and host of the podcast “A Slight Change of Plans” posits ways to redefine upheavals.
LAST WEEK: 2
WEEKS ON LIST: 2
8. JUNGLEKEEPER, by Paul Rosolie. (Convergent) A conservationist and explorer gives an account of his time spent in the Amazon rainforest.
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WEEKS ON LIST: 1
9. OUTLIVE, by Peter Attia with Bill Gifford. (Harmony) A look at recent scientific research on aging and longevity.
LAST WEEK: 8
WEEKS ON LIST: 129
10. ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS, by Omar El Akkad. (Knopf) In his nonfiction debut, El Akkad looks at how the West responds to mass suffering.
LAST WEEK: 7
WEEKS ON LIST: 8
11. EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS, by John Green. (Crash Course) The author of “The Anthropocene Reviewed” chronicles the fight against the deadly infectious disease tuberculosis.
LAST WEEK: 9
WEEKS ON LIST: 30
12. BLACK AF HISTORY, by Michael Harriot. (Dey Street) A columnist at TheGrio.com articulates moments in American history that put at the center the perspectives and experiences of Black Americans.
LAST WEEK: 12
WEEKS ON LIST: 25
13. THE GALES OF NOVEMBER, by John U. Bacon. (Liveright) An account of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, an American Great Lakes freighter, 50 years ago.
LAST WEEK: 11
WEEKS ON LIST: 13
14. WHEN BREATH BECOMES AIR, by Paul Kalanithi. (Random House) A memoir by a physician who received a diagnosis of Stage IV lung cancer at the age of 36.
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WEEKS ON LIST: 76
15. POEMS & PRAYERS, by Matthew McConaughey. (Crown) The actor and author of “Greenlights” explores elements of belief and reason that make up our lives.
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WEEKS ON LIST: 15
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