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

Here are the week's bestsellers according to the five biggest bestseller lists, from literary fiction to self-help.

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This week’s bestseller lists are reporting on sales from the end of December, a time when very few books are published. So it’s no surprise that most of the books here are familiar titles. Only one hasn’t appeared on this roundup in previous weeks: The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins, who you may know from her podcast. This new self-help book was—puzzlingly—published on December 24th.

Heavenly Tyrant cover

This list continues to have a lack of diversity on many levels, including being disproportionately by white authors. Some other bestsellers you should know about are Heavenly Tyrant (Iron Widow #2) by Xiran Jay Zhao, 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.

cover of James by Percival Everett

Books On All Five Bestseller Lists:

James by Percival Everett

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

Books On Four Bestseller Lists:

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

Books On Three Bestseller Lists:

The Let Them Theory cover

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

The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins (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)

The God of the Woods by Liz Moore (NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)

The Housemaid by Freida McFadden (Publishers Weekly, NYT, Amazon)

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas (Publishers Weekly, NYT, Indie Bestsellers)

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