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

USA Today, Publishers Weekly, NYT, Amazon, and Indie Booksellers all have their own bestseller lists. Here are the combined results.

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Despite the title of this series, it’s impossible to have up-to-date information about bestsellers. In fact, most lists report on numbers not from last week but the week before. (Amazon is the exception, which is able to offer you the bestsellers of the hour, if you’re interested.) That means this list of bestsellers reflects the holiday shopping season, and I would guess that a lot of people got the biggest books of 2024 under their tree, like James by Percival Everett and The Women by Kristin Hannah.

Another rarely discussed aspect of the bestseller lists is that most exclude children’s books, which are often the biggest sellers of the moment. This week, the latest Dog Man was the #1 bestseller on Publishers Weekly, but because The New York Times and Indie Bestseller lists separate kids’ books out, it’s at the bottom of this roundup and almost didn’t make the list at all.

cover of Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar

This week’s roundup includes more authors of color than usual, which is a welcome surprise, but that’s the exception to a list that’s usually almost entirely by white authors. Some Indie Bestsellers you should know about are Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar and The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates.

To get these numbers, we look at the USA Today overall top 10; Publishers Weekly overall top 10; The New York Times top 10, both Combined Print & E-Book Fiction and Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction lists; Amazon Charts top 10, both Fiction and Nonfiction; and Indie Bestsellers top 10, Fiction and Nonfiction, both Paperback and Hardcover. New additions to the list this week are bolded.

Books On All Five Bestseller Lists:

Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson Book Cover

James by Percival Everett

Books On Four Bestseller Lists:

Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson (Publishers Weekly, NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)

The Women by Kristin Hannah (Publishers Weekly, NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)

Books On Three Bestseller Lists:

a graphic of the cover of The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Big Jim Begins (Dog Man #13) by Dav Pilkey (Publishers Weekly, USA Today, Amazon)

The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer (USA Today, NYT, Indie Bestsellers)

The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan (USA Today, NYT, Indie Bestsellers)

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros (NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)

Melania by Melania Trump (Publishers Weekly, USA Today, NYT)

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