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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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In this week’s roundup of the bestselling books according to all the lists, we have four titles making their debut. First up is The Knave and the Moon by Rachel Gillig, the second book in the gothic romantasy series that started with The Knight and the Moth. Then there’s The Disappearers by Man Booker Prize-winning author Marlon James, which recently had one of the most effusive The New York Times reviews ever written: This Masterpiece is the Novel of the Decade, if Not the Century.

Also new to the list is The Most Dangerous Games, a team-up between YouTuber MrBeast and James Patterson. Finally, Hayden Panettiere’s memoir This Is Me: A Reckoning has returned to the bestseller lists after her death in August.

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This list continues to lack diversity on many levels, including being disproportionately by white authors. Some Indie Bestsellers and Independent Press Bestsellers you should know about are The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim, Etna by Paul Yoon, and Hawk & Sparrow by Ayana Gray.

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; USA Today; and Indie Bestsellers, Fiction and Nonfiction, both Paperback and Hardcover.

Books On All Five Bestseller Lists:

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Theo of Golden by Allen Levi

Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman

The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett

Books On Four Bestseller Lists:

The Knave and the Moon by Rachel Gillig (Publishers Weekly, USA Today, NYT, Indie Bestsellers)

Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke (Publishers Weekly, NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)

Books On Three Bestseller Lists:

Cover Image of The Disappearers by Marlon James

The Disappearers by Marlon James (USA Today, NYT, Indie Bestsellers)

Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan (NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)

The Most Dangerous Games by MrBeast and James Patterson (Publishers Weekly, USA Today, NYT)

This Is Me: A Reckoning by Hayden Panettiere (Publishers Weekly, USA Today, NYT)

Big Little Truths by Liane Moriarty (NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)

Whistler by Ann Patchett (NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)

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