Rankings reflect sales for the week ended Jan. 4, 2025, which were reported on a confidential basis by vendors offering a wide range of general interest titles. Every week, thousands of diverse selling locations report their actual sales on hundreds of thousands of individual titles. The panel of reporting retailers is comprehensive and reflects sales in stores of all sizes and demographics across the United States.
An asterisk (*) indicates that a book’s sales were barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A (b) indicates that some bookstores reported receiving bulk orders.
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PICTURE
1. LITTLE BLUE TRUCK’S VALENTINE, by Alice Schertle. Illustrated by Jill McElmurry. (Clarion) Little Blue Truck delivers Valentine’s Day cards to all his farm animal friends. (Ages 4 and up)
WEEKS ON LIST: 29
2. TINY T. REX AND THE IMPOSSIBLE HUG, by Jonathan Stutzman. Illustrated by Jay Fleck. (Chronicle) Tiny practices hugging in order to cheer up a friend. (Ages 3 to 5)
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
3. TAYLOR SWIFT, by Wendy Loggia. Illustrated by Elisa Chavarri. (Golden) A biography of the pop star. (Ages 4 to 8)
WEEKS ON LIST: 11
4. I AM GLINDA, by Mary Man-Kong. Illustrated by Elsa Chang. (Golden) All of the “thrillifying” things about Glinda. (Ages 2 to 5)
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
5. LOVE FROM BLUEY, by Suzy Brumm. (Penguin) The love between parents and their children. (Ages 5 to 8)
WEEKS ON LIST: 9
6. DRAGONS LOVE TACOS, by Adam Rubin. Illustrated by Daniel Salmieri. (Dial) What to serve your dragon guests. (Ages 3 to 5)
WEEKS ON LIST: 464
7. IN MY HEART, by Jo Witek. Illustrated by Christine Roussey. (Abrams Appleseed) An exploration of feelings. (Ages 2 to 4)
WEEKS ON LIST: 21
8. THE WONDERFUL THINGS YOU WILL BE, by Emily Winfield Martin. (Random House) A celebration of possibilities. (Ages 3 to 7)
WEEKS ON LIST: 412
9. I AM ELPHABA, by Mary Man-Kong. Illustrated by Elsa Chang. (Golden) Celebrating everything that is special about Elphaba. (Ages 2 to 5)
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
10. BLUEY: SLEEPYTIME, by Joe Brumm. (Penguin) Bingo wants to do a big girl sleep and wake up in her own bed. (Ages 4 to 8)
WEEKS ON LIST: 34
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MIDDLE GRADE HARDCOVER
1. IMPOSSIBLE CREATURES, by Katherine Rundell. Illustrated by Ashley Mackenzie. (Knopf) A young boy is enlisted to save a place where magical creatures live. (Ages 10 and up)
WEEKS ON LIST: 17
2. THE COMPLETE COOKBOOK FOR YOUNG CHEFS, by America’s Test Kitchen Kids. (Sourcebooks Jabberwocky) More than 100 kid-tested recipes from America’s Test Kitchen. (Ages 8 and up)
WEEKS ON LIST: 231
3. THE LAST DRAGON ON MARS, by Scott Reintgen. (Aladdin) Lunar must save the planet Mars with a dragon named Dread. (Ages 10 and up)
WEEKS ON LIST: 14
4. WINGS OF FIRE: A GUIDE TO THE DRAGON WORLD, by Tui T. Sutherland. Illustrated by Joy Ang. (Scholastic) A deeper dive into the legends of the 10 dragon tribes. (Ages 8 to 12)
WEEKS ON LIST: 50
5. WONDER, by R.J. Palacio. (Knopf) A boy with a facial deformity starts school. (Ages 8 to 12)
WEEKS ON LIST: 474
6. THE BLETCHLEY RIDDLE, by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin. (Viking) The siblings Jakob and Lizzie decode wartime secrets during World War II-era London. (Ages 10 and up)
WEEKS ON LIST: 13
7. ODDER, by Katherine Applegate. Illustrated by Charles Santoso. (Feiwel & Friends) After a shark attack, Odder recuperates at the aquarium with the scientists who raised her. (Ages 8 to 12)
WEEKS ON LIST: 96
8. WHEN WE FLEW AWAY, by Alice Hoffman. (Scholastic) A fictionalized account of Anne Frank’s life before her diary. (Ages 8 to 12)
WEEKS ON LIST: 9
9. THE MILLICENT QUIBB SCHOOL OF ETIQUETTE FOR YOUNG LADIES OF MAD SCIENCE, by Kate McKinnon. (Little, Brown) Three sisters attend an unusual etiquette school. (Ages 8 to 12)
WEEKS ON LIST: 14
10. HEROES, by Alan Gratz. (Scholastic) The friends Frank and Stanley give a vivid account of the Pearl Harbor attack. (Ages 8 to 12)
WEEKS ON LIST: 43
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YOUNG ADULT HARDCOVER
1. IF HE HAD BEEN WITH ME, by Laura Nowlin. (Sourcebooks Fire) The coming-of-age love story of Autumn and Phineas. (Ages 14 to 18)
WEEKS ON LIST: 9
2. NOTHING LIKE THE MOVIES, by Lynn Painter. (Simon & Schuster) In this sequel to “Better Than the Movies,” Wes tries to win back Liz’s heart. (Ages 14 and up)
WEEKS ON LIST: 14
3. A STUDY IN DROWNING, by Ava Reid. (HarperTeen) Dark forces try to thwart Preston and Effy’s efforts to unravel the mysteries of author Emrys Myrddin’s Hiraeth Manor. (Ages 14 and up)
WEEKS ON LIST: 18
4. HEAVENLY TYRANT, by Xiran Jay Zhao. (Tundra) Zetian is finally the ruler of Huaxia, but can she handle it? (Ages 14 and up)
WEEKS ON LIST: 2
5. HEIR, by Sabaa Tahir. (Putnam) Three young people find their places in a world where peace has been thoroughly disrupted. (Ages 14 to 17)
WEEKS ON LIST: 11
6. DIVINE RIVALS, by Rebecca Ross. (Wednesday) Two young rival journalists find love through a magical connection. (Ages 13 to 18)
WEEKS ON LIST: 79
7. MURTAGH, by Christopher Paolini. (Knopf) Murtagh and his dragon, Thorn, must find and outwit a mysterious witch. (Ages 12 to 15)
WEEKS ON LIST: 57
8. RUTHLESS VOWS, by Rebecca Ross. (Wednesday) In the sequel to “Divine Rivals,” Roman and Iris will risk their hearts and futures to change the tides of the war. (Ages 13 to 18)
WEEKS ON LIST: 39
9. THE GRANDEST GAME, by Jennifer Lynn Barnes. (Little, Brown) A prize worth millions is up for grabs for seven players sequestered on a private island. (Ages 12 to 18)
WEEKS ON LIST: 22
10. THE GLASS GIRL, by Kathleen Glasgow. (Delacorte) A teenager named Bella journeys through alcoholism and recovery. (Ages 14 to 18)
WEEKS ON LIST: 14
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SERIES
1. DIARY OF A WIMPY KID, written and illustrated by Jeff Kinney. (Amulet) The travails and challenges of adolescence. (Ages 9 to 12)
WEEKS ON LIST: 825
2. PERCY JACKSON & THE OLYMPIANS, by Rick Riordan. (Disney-Hyperion) A boy battles mythological monsters. (Ages 9 to 12)
WEEKS ON LIST: 758
3. CULPABLE, by Mercedes Ron. (Bloom) A forbidden enemies-to-lovers romance between Noah Morgan and her stepbrother Nicholas. (Ages 16 to 18)
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
4. THE POWERLESS TRILOGY, by Lauren Roberts. (Simon & Schuster) A story of forbidden love between Paedyn, an Ordinary, and Kai, an Elite, in the kingdom of Ilya. (Ages 14 and up)
WEEKS ON LIST: 25
5. BOYS OF TOMMEN, by Chloe Walsh. (Bloom) In Ireland, friends at the private Tommen College prepare for adulthood. (Ages 16 to 18)
WEEKS ON LIST: 16
6. LIGHTLARK SAGA, by Alex Aster. (Amulet) Every 100 years the island of Lightlark appears and a deadly competition called the Centennial takes place. (Ages 13 and up)
WEEKS ON LIST: 6
7. THE WILD ROBOT, by Peter Brown. (Little, Brown) Roz the robot adapts to her surroundings on a remote, wild island. (Ages 7 to 12)
WEEKS ON LIST: 50
8. HARRY POTTER, by J.K. Rowling. (Scholastic) A wizard hones his conjuring skills in the service of fighting evil. (Ages 10 and up)
WEEKS ON LIST: 824
9. THE INHERITANCE GAMES, by Jennifer Lynn Barnes. (Little, Brown)
Avery Grambs tries to figure out why a stranger left her an inheritance. (Ages 12 to 18)
WEEKS ON LIST: 92
10. A GOOD GIRL’S GUIDE TO MURDER, by Holly Jackson. (Delacorte)
Pippa Fitz-Amobi solves murderous crimes. (Ages 14 and up)
WEEKS ON LIST: 171
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