Rankings reflect sales for the week ended Feb. 28, 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
Tayari Jones’ latest novel joins the hardcover fiction list in the No. 3 spot. (Courtesy/Knopf)
1. THE CROSSROADS, by C.J. Box. (Putnam) The 26th book in the Joe Pickett series. After Joe takes a gunshot to the head, his daughters seek to find out who did it.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
2. 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: 18
3. KIN, by Tayari Jones. (Knopf) Vernice and Annie, two neighbors without mothers in Louisiana, go on divergent paths in life and are brought back together by tragedy.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
4. CROSS & SAMPSON, by James Patterson and Brian Sitts. (Little, Brown) The 35th book in the Alex Cross series. Detectives Sampson and Cross track crimes over long distances.
LAST WEEK: 3
WEEKS ON LIST: 3
5. MY HUSBAND’S WIFE, by Alice Feeney. (Pine & Cedar) In an old house in a seaside town, things may not be what they appear.
LAST WEEK: 13
WEEKS ON LIST: 5
6. ALCHEMISED, by SenLinYu. (Del Rey) After the war, an imprisoned alchemist is sent to a necromancer to recover her lost memories.
LAST WEEK: 7
WEEKS ON LIST: 23
7. 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: 9
WEEKS ON LIST: 7
8. 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: 8
WEEKS ON LIST: 19
9. MORE THAN ENOUGH, by Anna Quindlen. (Random House) After receiving the results from an ancestry test kit, a high school English teacher questions some relationships in her life.
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WEEKS ON LIST: 1
10. THE DUNGEON ANARCHIST’S COOKBOOK, by Matt Dinniman. (Ace) The third book in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series. Carl and Donut are up against a subway system filled with monsters.
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WEEKS ON LIST: 2
11. BRAWLER, by Lauren Groff. (Riverhead) A collection of nine stories including “Between the Shadow and the Soul,” “Under the Wave” and “Annunciation.”
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WEEKS ON LIST: 1
12. IT’S NOT HER, by Mary Kubica. (Park Row) Courtney Gray’s vacation is interrupted by two murders and a disappearance of relatives that bring up secrets involving her family and the town.
LAST WEEK: 14
WEEKS ON LIST: 4
13. VIGIL, by George Saunders. (Random House) In the waning hours of an oil company CEO’s life, worldly and otherworldly visitors put his time on Earth in perspective.
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WEEKS ON LIST: 4
14. HEART THE LOVER, by Lily King. (Grove) Decades after getting caught up in a love triangle, a woman examines choices she once made.
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WEEKS ON LIST: 3
15. THE RED WINTER, by Cameron Sullivan. (Tor) In 1785, the Beast of Gévaudan has returned to the French countryside and Sebastian Grave must finish what began two decades ago.
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WEEKS ON LIST: 1
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NONFICTION
1. STRIPPED DOWN, by Bunnie Xo. (Dey Street) The host of the “Dumb Blonde Podcast” shares how redemption was an important part of her journey toward reaching her goals.
LAST WEEK: 1
WEEKS ON LIST: 2
2. A WORLD APPEARS, by Michael Pollan. (Penguin Press) The author of “This Is Your Mind on Plants” explores several perspectives on consciousness.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
3. WE THE WOMEN, by Norah O’Donnell with Kate Andersen Brower. (Ballantine) A collection of portraits of women whose lives and work helped shape American history.
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WEEKS ON LIST: 1
4. YOUNG MAN IN A HURRY, by Gavin Newsom. (Penguin Press) The governor of California traces his family’s history and describes his journey in politics. (b)
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
5. YOU BETTER BELIEVE I’M GONNA TALK ABOUT IT, by Lisa Rinna. (Dey Street) The reality TV and soap opera star shares stories from her life and career.
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WEEKS ON LIST: 1
6. 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: 2
WEEKS ON LIST: 19
7. THE ANXIOUS GENERATION, by Jonathan Haidt. (Penguin Press) A co-author of “The Coddling of the American Mind” looks at the effects of a phone-based life on children’s mental health.
LAST WEEK: 7
WEEKS ON LIST: 97
8. AMERICAN STRUGGLE, by Jon Meacham. (Random House) The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer examines national divisions and debates over the last four centuries.
LAST WEEK: 3
WEEKS ON LIST: 2
9. STRANGERS, by Belle Burden. (Dial) Burden retraces her marriage of 20 years in search of clues to help shape her understanding about its demise and to find a way forward.
LAST WEEK: 10
WEEKS ON LIST: 6
10. BLACK AF HISTORY, by Michael Harriot. (Dey Street) A columnist at TheGrio.com articulates moments in American history that put the perspectives and experiences of Black Americans at the center.
LAST WEEK: 12
WEEKS ON LIST: 30
11. BRAVING THE TRUTH, by Rachel Held Evans. (HarperOne) A collection of essays by the author of “Wholehearted Faith,” who died in 2019; edited by Sarah Bessey.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
12. THE GREATEST SENTENCE EVER WRITTEN, by Walter Isaacson. (Simon & Schuster) The historian and biographer examines the concepts of a statement found in the Declaration of Independence.
LAST WEEK: 6
WEEKS ON LIST: 11
13. 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: 11
WEEKS ON LIST: 21
14. 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: 13
WEEKS ON LIST: 20
15. THE INVISIBLE COUP, by Peter Schweizer. (Harper) The author of “Blood Money” puts forward his argument that mass migration is a political weapon.
LAST WEEK: 9
WEEKS ON LIST: 6
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