Rankings reflect sales for the week ended Nov. 9, 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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FICTION
1. THE GREY WOLF, by Louise Penny. (Minotaur) The 19th book in the Chief Inspector Gamache series. Shifting alliances complicate the frenzied pursuit of a sinister threat.
LAST WEEK: 1
WEEKS ON LIST: 2
2. THE WOMEN, by Kristin Hannah. (St. Martin’s) In 1965, a nursing student follows her brother to serve during the Vietnam War and returns to a divided America.
LAST WEEK: 4
WEEKS ON LIST: 40
3. IN TOO DEEP, by Lee Child and Andrew Child. (Delacorte) The 29th book in the Jack Reacher series. Reacher wakes up in a precarious position with no memory of how he got there.
LAST WEEK: 3
WEEKS ON LIST: 3
4. COUNTING MIRACLES, by Nicholas Sparks. (Random House) A man in search of the father he never knew encounters a single mom, and rumors circulate of the appearance nearby of a white deer.
LAST WEEK: 5
WEEKS ON LIST: 7
5. THE WAITING, by Michael Connelly. (Little, Brown) The sixth book in the Ballard and Bosch series. Bosch’s daughter, Maddie, becomes a new volunteer on the cold case unit.
LAST WEEK: 6
WEEKS ON LIST: 4
6. IRON FLAME, by Rebecca Yarros. (Red Tower) The second book in the Empyrean series. Violet Sorrengail’s next round of training might require her to betray the man she loves.
LAST WEEK: 7
WEEKS ON LIST: 53
7. UNDER THE OAK TREE, VOL. 1, by Suji Kim. (Inklore) Three years after their disastrous wedding night, Sir Riftan returns as a war hero and longs for Lady Maximilian.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
8. THINGS WE NEVER GOT OVER, by Lucy Score. (Bloom) A runaway bride becomes the guardian of her evil twin’s daughter and gets some help from a bad-boy barber. The first book in the romance series set in Knockemout, Virginia.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
9. THINGS WE LEFT BEHIND, by Lucy Score. (Bloom) The third book in the Knockemout series. A mogul and a small-town librarian share a dark secret from their past.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
10. THINGS WE HIDE FROM THE LIGHT, by Lucy Score. (Bloom) The second book in the Knockemout series. A woman with some secrets and the chief of police have different ideas about where things are headed.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
11. INTERMEZZO, by Sally Rooney. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) After the death of their father, seemingly different brothers engage in relationships and seek ways to cope.
LAST WEEK: 10
WEEKS ON LIST: 7
12. THE GOD OF THE WOODS, by Liz Moore. (Riverhead) When a 13-year-old girl disappears from an Adirondack summer camp in 1975, secrets kept by the Van Laar family emerge.
LAST WEEK: 11
WEEKS ON LIST: 19
13. THE BLUE HOUR, by Paula Hawkins. (Mariner) After a discovery is made in a London art gallery, a woman who lives alone on an island that once was home to a famous artist gets a visitor.
LAST WEEK: 8
WEEKS ON LIST: 2
14. JAMES, by Percival Everett. (Doubleday) A reimagining of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” shines a different light on Mark Twain’s classic, revealing new facets of Jim. Winner of the National Book Award for fiction on Nov. 20.
LAST WEEK: 14
WEEKS ON LIST: 19
15. SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE, by Claire Keegan. (Grove) A coal merchant discovers something that causes turmoil in a small Irish town controlled by the church in 1985; the basis of the film.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
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NONFICTION
1. MELANIA, by Melania Trump. (Skyhorse) The former first lady describes her work as a fashion model, marriage to Donald Trump and time in the White House.
LAST WEEK: 1
WEEKS ON LIST: 5
2. FRAMED, by John Grisham and Jim McCloskey. (Doubleday) Our criminal justice system viewed through the struggles of 10 wrongfully convicted people to be exonerated.
LAST WEEK: 2
WEEKS ON LIST: 4
3. THE ANXIOUS GENERATION, by Jonathan Haidt. (Penguin Press) A co-author of “The Coddling of the American Mind” looks at the effects of a phone-based life on children’s mental health.
LAST WEEK: 8
WEEKS ON LIST: 33
4. CONFRONTING THE PRESIDENTS, by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard. (St. Martin’s) The commentator evaluates the legacies of American presidents.
LAST WEEK: 9
WEEKS ON LIST: 9
5. BE READY WHEN THE LUCK HAPPENS, by Ina Garten. (Crown) A memoir by the cookbook author and Food Network host known as the Barefoot Contessa.
LAST WEEK: 4
WEEKS ON LIST: 6
6. FROM HERE TO THE GREAT UNKNOWN, by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough. (Random House) Presley’s memoir, completed by her daughter, explores her relationships and challenges.
LAST WEEK: 6
WEEKS ON LIST: 5
7. THE MESSAGE, by Ta-Nehisi Coates. (One World) The author of “Between the World and Me” travels to three locations to uncover the dissonance between the realities on the ground and the narratives about them.
LAST WEEK: 7
WEEKS ON LIST: 6
8. WAR, by Bob Woodward. (Simon & Schuster) The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist looks at our contentious time through battles in Ukraine and the Middle East and for the American presidency.
LAST WEEK: 3
WEEKS ON LIST: 4
9. REVENGE OF THE TIPPING POINT, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Little, Brown) Through a series of stories, Gladwell discusses the causes of various kinds of epidemics.
LAST WEEK: 5
WEEKS ON LIST: 6
10. BROTHERS, by Alex Van Halen. (Harper) The drummer of the rock band Van Halen shares stories about his partnership in life and music with his late brother Edward.
LAST WEEK: 12
WEEKS ON LIST: 3
11. PATRIOT, by Alexei Navalny. (Knopf) A posthumously published memoir by the Russian political opposition leader and political prisoner who began writing it after his near-fatal poisoning in 2020.
LAST WEEK: 10
WEEKS ON LIST: 3
12. AMERICAN HEROES, by James Patterson and Matt Eversmann with Tim Malloy. (Little, Brown) Stories of soldiers who served in conflicts overseas.
LAST WEEK: 11
WEEKS ON LIST: 3
13. THE SMALL AND THE MIGHTY, by Sharon McMahon. (Thesis) A former high school government and law teacher profiles lesser-known Americans who made an impact.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 4
14. NEXUS, by Yuval Noah Harari. (Random House) The author of “Sapiens” delves into how societies and political systems have used information and gives a warning about artificial intelligence.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 6
15. CARSON THE MAGNIFICENT, by Bill Zehme with Mike Thomas. (Simon & Schuster) Zehme’s posthumously completed biography of the late comedian who hosted “The Tonight Show” for three decades.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
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