Rankings reflect sales for the week ended Aug. 5, 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. FOURTH WING, by Rebecca Yarros. (Red Tower) Violet Sorrengail is urged by the commanding general, who also is her mother, to become a candidate for the elite dragon riders.
LAST WEEK: 1
WEEKS ON LIST: 13
2. TOM LAKE, by Ann Patchett. (Harper) Three daughters, who return to their family orchard in the spring of 2020, learn about their mother’s relationship with a famous actor.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
3. LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY, by Bonnie Garmus. (Doubleday) A scientist and single mother living in California in the 1960s becomes a star on a TV cooking show.
LAST WEEK: 4
WEEKS ON LIST: 65
4. OUT OF NOWHERE, by Sandra Brown. (Grand Central) A shooting at a Texas county fair leads to an unexpected connection between a children’s book author and a corporate consultant.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
5. THE COVENANT OF WATER, by Abraham Verghese. (Grove) Three generations of a family living on south India’s Malabar Coast suffer the loss of a family member by drowning.
LAST WEEK: 6
WEEKS ON LIST: 14
6. DEMON COPPERHEAD, by Barbara Kingsolver. (Harper) Winner of a 2023 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. A re-imagining of Charles Dickens’ “David Copperfield” set in the mountains of southern Appalachia.
LAST WEEK: 8
WEEKS ON LIST: 40
7. HAPPY PLACE, by Emily Henry. (Berkley) A former couple pretend to be together for the sake of their friends during their annual getaway in Maine.
LAST WEEK: 5
WEEKS ON LIST: 15
8. THE COLLECTOR, by Daniel Silva. (Harper) The 23rd book in the Gabriel Allon series. The art restorer teams up with a thief to find a missing painting and works to prevent a conflict between Russia and the West.
LAST WEEK: 7
WEEKS ON LIST: 3
9. THE FIVE-STAR WEEKEND, by Elin Hilderbrand. (Little, Brown) After a tragedy, a popular food blogger brings friends from distinct times in her life to spend a weekend in Nantucket.
LAST WEEK: 9
WEEKS ON LIST: 8
10. DEAD FALL, by Brad Thor. (Atria/Emily Bestler) The 22nd book in the Scot Harvath series. When American aid workers are killed amid other atrocities in Ukraine, America’s top spy is sent to set things right.
LAST WEEK: 3
WEEKS ON LIST: 2
11. TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, by Gabrielle Zevin. (Knopf) Two friends find their partnership challenged in the world of video game design.
LAST WEEK: 14
WEEKS ON LIST: 44
12. CROOK MANIFESTO, by Colson Whitehead. (Doubleday) In 1970s Harlem, a furniture store owner and his partner in crime find themselves up against shady and violent forces.
LAST WEEK: 11
WEEKS ON LIST: 3
13. OBSESSED, by James Patterson and James O. Born. (Little, Brown) A killer who targets women in New York City becomes obsessed with Michael Bennett’s daughter.
LAST WEEK: 12
WEEKS ON LIST: 4
14. HELLO BEAUTIFUL, by Ann Napolitano. (Dial) In this homage to Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women,” a young man’s dark past resurfaces as he gets to know the family of his college sweetheart.
LAST WEEK: 15
WEEKS ON LIST: 21
15. EVERYONE HERE IS LYING, by Shari Lapena. (Pamela Dorman) Things kept hidden bubble to the surface when the 9-year-old daughter of a man whose affair just ended badly goes missing.
LAST WEEK: 10
WEEKS ON LIST: 2
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NONFICTION
Doubleday
New on the hardcover list, No. 7 in nonfiction.
1. OUTLIVE, by Peter Attia with Bill Gifford. (Harmony) A look at recent scientific research on aging and longevity.
LAST WEEK: 2
WEEKS ON LIST: 19
2. THE WAGER, by David Grann. (Doubleday) The survivors of a shipwrecked British vessel on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain have different accounts of events.
LAST WEEK: 1
WEEKS ON LIST: 16
3. I’M GLAD MY MOM DIED, by Jennette McCurdy. (Simon & Schuster) The actor and filmmaker describes her eating disorders and difficult relationship with her mother.
LAST WEEK: 4
WEEKS ON LIST: 52
4. BEYOND THE STORY, by BTS and Myeongseok Kang. (Flatiron) An oral history of the K-pop group that is celebrating its 10th anniversary.
LAST WEEK: 3
WEEKS ON LIST: 4
5. THE IN-BETWEEN, by Hadley Vlahos. (Ballantine) A hospice nurse shares some of her most impactful experiences and questions some of society’s beliefs around end-of-life care.
LAST WEEK: 8
WEEKS ON LIST: 8
6. WHAT AN OWL KNOWS, by Jennifer Ackerman. (Penguin Press) The author of “The Genius of Birds” explores new scientific discoveries about the brains and behavior of owls.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 6
7. THE UNDERWORLD, by Susan Casey. (Doubleday) A chronicler of the aquatic world gives an overview of deep-sea exploration and details recent findings there.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
8. PAGEBOY, by Elliot Page. (Flatiron) The Oscar-nominated star details discovering himself as a trans person and navigating abuse in Hollywood.
LAST WEEK: 11
WEEKS ON LIST: 8
9. THE FOURTH TURNING IS HERE, by Neil Howe. (Simon & Schuster) One of the authors of “The Fourth Turning” reflects on what he calls the cycles of history and predicts potential effects of today’s era of polarization.
LAST WEEK: 15
WEEKS ON LIST: 3
10. JACKIE, by J. Randy Taraborrelli. (St. Martin’s) A biography of former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
LAST WEEK: 9
WEEKS ON LIST: 3
11. THE KING OF LATE NIGHT, by Greg Gutfeld. (Threshold Editions) A collection of essays by the host of the late-night Fox News show “Gutfeld!”
LAST WEEK: 6
WEEKS ON LIST: 2
12. UNBROKEN BONDS OF BATTLE, by Johnny Joey Jones. (Broadside) The Fox News military analyst shares stories from working with veterans for over a decade.
LAST WEEK: 12
WEEKS ON LIST: 6
13. DARK FUTURE, by Glenn Beck with Justin Haskins. (Forefront) The second book in the “Great Reset” series. The commentator gives his take on advances in technology and their potential impact.
LAST WEEK: 14
WEEKS ON LIST: 4
14. THE ART THIEF, by Michael Finkel. (Knopf) The author of “The Stranger in the Woods” tells the story of Stéphane Breitwieser, who stole art more than 200 times for the sake of admiring it.
LAST WEEK: 10
WEEKS ON LIST: 5
15. POVERTY, BY AMERICA, by Matthew Desmond. (Crown) The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Evicted” examines ways in which affluent Americans keep poor people poor.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 13
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