The Bestselling Books of the Week, According to All the Lists
Lately, the bestseller lists have had radically different ideas of the bestselling books of the moment. This week, though, they seem to finally be in alignment again. There are four titles are all five bestseller lists, so we can be confident those are the biggest books of the moment. One of those is The Housemaid by Freida McFadden, which had been sliding down the bestseller lists, but has had a boost lately. That may be because of recent news about the adaptation, which will star Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried.
There is also one new book on this list: The House of My Mother: A Daughter’s Quest for Freedom by Shari Franke, which came out on January 7th. It’s the memoir of the eldest daughter of the 8 Passengers family vlog channel. Shari Franke describes the chasm between the picture-perfect façade of their family shared online and the abuse they were suffering in reality.
This list continues to have a lack of diversity on many levels, including being disproportionately by white authors. Some Indie Bestsellers you should know about are Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar, Yellowface by R. F. Kuang, The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer, 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:
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
James by Percival Everett
The Housemaid by Freida McFadden
Books On Four Bestseller Lists:
The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins (Publishers Weekly, USA Today, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)
Books On Three Bestseller Lists:
The Women by Kristin Hannah (NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)
The House of My Mother: A Daughter’s Quest for Freedom by Shari Franke (Publishers Weekly, USA Today, NYT)
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore (NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)
Atomic Habits by James Clear (Publishers Weekly, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)
The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt (NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)
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