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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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It’s another week where the bestseller lists cannot agree: no single title made it into the top ten on all five of the biggest lists. In some instances, this is a categorization problem. USA Today and Publishers Weekly have one big list encompassing all categories, so they include several Easter picture books in the top ten, whereas most of the other lists separate children’s books into their own list.

For weeks, I’ve been puzzled over The New York Times not including The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins on the Nonfiction bestseller list even as it dominated every other Nonfiction list. It turns out that they have a separate “Advice, How-To & Miscellaneous” category, where The Let Them Theory is #1.

Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins has finally taken its spot on this feature—because the lists report on sales from several weeks ago, there’s always a bit of a lag. Even that title didn’t make it onto all five lists, though: it’s a YA novel, which often are separated out.

The other book showing up here for the first time is Abundance, written by podcasters and columnists Ezra Klein (Ezra Klein Show, New York Times) and Derek Thompson (Plain English, The Atlantic).

a graphic of the cover of One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad

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 The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad, and The Portable Feminist Reader edited by Roxane Gay.

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 Four Bestseller Lists:

sunrise on the reaping book cover

The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins (Publishers Weekly, USA Today, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)

Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins (Publishers Weekly, USA Today, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)

Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green (USA Today, NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)

Books On Three Bestseller Lists:

Abundance cover

Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams (NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)

Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson (NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)

Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros (NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)

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

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

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