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The Bestselling Books of the Week, According to All the Lists

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Welcome to this week’s bestselling books! This is the feature where we take a look at the biggest bestsellers lists to see where the overlap is — surprisingly, they can vary quite a bit. This week looks very similar to the last two. The only new addition (bolded) is not a new release, but a book that’s been just shy of the top ten for a while and has resurfaced: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer.

To get these numbers, we look at the New York Times, both Combined Print & E-Book Fiction and Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction lists; Amazon Charts, both Fiction and Nonfiction; Publishers Weekly; and Indie Bestsellers, Fiction and Nonfiction, both Paperback and Hardcover.

As usual, this list is disproportionately by white authors. For a book that didn’t quite make this list but is getting a lot of buzz on bookish social media, check out Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, which is on the Indie Bestsellers list.

Books On All Four Bestseller Lists:

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Spare by Prince Harry (NYT #1, Publishers Weekly #1, Amazon #1, Indie Bestsellers #1)

It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover (NYT #1, Publishers Weekly #2, Amazon #2, Indie Bestsellers #2)

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (NYT #3, Publishers Weekly #9, Amazon #1, Indie Bestsellers #1)

It Starts With Us by Colleen Hoover (NYT #2, Publishers Weekly #3, Amazon #4, Indie Bestsellers #5)

Verity by Colleen Hoover (NYT #4, Publishers Weekly #7, Amazon #3, Indie Bestsellers #7)

Books On Three Bestseller Lists:

cover of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy (NYT #2, Amazon #6, Indie Bestsellers #3)

Atomic Habits by James Clear (Publishers Weekly #5, Amazon #2, Indie Bestsellers #5)

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (NYT #7, Amazon #5, Indie Bestsellers #2)

The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk (NYT #3, Amazon #8, Indie Bestsellers #3)

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid (NYT #5, Publishers Weekly #10, Indie Bestsellers #1)

The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama (NYT #5, Amazon #7, Indie Bestsellers #4)

Books On Two Bestseller Lists:

A graphic of the cover of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin (Amazon #3, Indie Bestsellers #2)

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (Amazon #6, Indie Bestsellers #3)

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer (NYT #10, Indie Bestsellers #1)

Straight Shooter by Stephen A. Smith (NYT #7, Publishers Weekly #9)

The House of Wolves by James Patterson and Mike Lupica (NYT #9, Amazon #10)


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