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

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This week’s bestseller list is a mix of celebrity and political memoirs, sci-fi and fantasy series, acclaimed literary fiction, titles that have been adapted to the screen recently, and history books. Most of these have stayed on the bestseller lists for many weeks, though some might be seeing a boost from holiday sales. Overall, this isn’t the most groundbreaking week in bestsellers, but that also reflects that December has very few new book releases, with most of the biggest titles published in the fall.

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.

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 Solito: A Memoir by Javier Zamora and The Fraud by Zadie Smith.

Books On All Five Bestseller Lists:

cover of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning by Liz Cheney (Publishers Weekly #1, USA Today #1, NYT #1, Amazon #1, Indie Bestsellers #2)

Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros (Publishers Weekly #4, USA Today #2, NYT #2, Amazon #3, Indie Bestsellers #2)

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride (Publishers Weekly #7, USA Today #3, NYT #3, Amazon #7, Indie Bestsellers #1)

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros (Publishers Weekly #5, USA Today #9, NYT #1, Amazon #1, Indie Bestsellers #5)

Books On Four Bestseller Lists:

The Woman in Me by Britney Spears (Publishers Weekly #6, NYT #2, Amazon #2, Indie Bestsellers #8)

Books On Three Bestseller Lists:

cover of The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann; painting of an old ship being tossed about in the waves

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann (USA Today #6, NYT #3, Indie Bestsellers #1)

Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann (NYT #4, Amazon #9, Indie Bestsellers #1)

My Name Is Barbra by Barbra Streisand (NYT #5, Amazon #5, Indie Bestsellers #7)

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (NYT #6, Amazon #8, Indie Bestsellers #4)

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins (Publishers Weekly #10, USA Today #10, Amazon #2)

Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir by Matthew Perry (NYT #7, Amazon #5, Indie Bestsellers #10)

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