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In its first week, Jeff Goodell’s book was at No. 6 in nonfiction.
Hardcover rankings reflect sales for the week ended July 15, 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: 10
2. 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: 2
WEEKS ON LIST: 12
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: 3
WEEKS ON LIST: 62
4. 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: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
5. 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: 4
WEEKS ON LIST: 5
6. 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: 5
WEEKS ON LIST: 11
7. DEMON COPPERHEAD, by Barbara Kingsolver. (Harper) Winner of a 2023 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. A reimagining of Charles Dickens’ “David Copperfield” set in the mountains of southern Appalachia.
LAST WEEK: 6
WEEKS ON LIST: 37
8. TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, by Gabrielle Zevin. (Knopf) Two friends find their partnership challenged in the world of video game design.
LAST WEEK: 12
WEEKS ON LIST: 41
9. THE ONLY ONE LEFT, by Riley Sager. (Dutton) In 1983, a mute woman in a wheelchair types out her side of the story about a family massacre to her home-health aide.
LAST WEEK: 7
WEEKS ON LIST: 4
10. YELLOWFACE, by R.F. Kuang. (Morrow) June Hayward, a struggling writer, must conceal the fact that she stole Athena Liu’s just-finished masterpiece after Liu’s sudden death.
LAST WEEK: 9
WEEKS ON LIST: 7
11. 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: 8
WEEKS ON LIST: 18
12. MUST LOVE FLOWERS, by Debbie Macomber. (Ballantine) A nursing student and her widowed landlady navigate life changes and potential love interests.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
13. THE SUMMER OF SONGBIRDS, by Kristy Woodson Harvey. (Gallery) Four women join together to save a summer camp for girls.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
14. REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES, by Shelby Van Pelt. (Ecco) A widow working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium is aided in solving a mystery by a giant Pacific octopus living there.
LAST WEEK: 15
WEEKS ON LIST: 21
15. HELLO STRANGER, by Katherine Center. (St. Martin’s) A portrait painter, who is diagnosed with a condition known as face blindness, falls for two different men.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
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NONFICTION
1. 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: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
2. OUTLIVE, by Peter Attia with Bill Gifford. (Harmony) A look at recent scientific research on aging and longevity.
LAST WEEK: 1
WEEKS ON LIST: 16
3. 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: 2
WEEKS ON LIST: 13
4. 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: 3
WEEKS ON LIST: 49
5. UNBROKEN BONDS OF BATTLE, by Johnny Joey Jones. (Broadside) The Fox News military analyst shares stories from working with veterans for over a decade. (b)
LAST WEEK: 4
WEEKS ON LIST: 3
6. THE HEAT WILL KILL YOU FIRST, by Jeff Goodell. (Little, Brown) The impact that rising temperatures have on our seasons, food supply, economy and vulnerable populations.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
7. PAGEBOY, by Elliot Page. (Flatiron) The Oscar-nominated star details discovering himself as a trans person and navigating abuse in Hollywood.
LAST WEEK: 7
WEEKS ON LIST: 6
8. SPARE, by Prince Harry. (Random House) The Duke of Sussex details his struggles with the royal family, loss of his mother, service in the British Army and marriage to Meghan Markle.
LAST WEEK: 10
WEEKS ON LIST: 27
9. 1964, by Paul McCartney. (Liveright) A collection of photographs taken with a 35-millimeter camera during the rise of the Beatles from the end of 1963 through early 1964.
LAST WEEK: 5
WEEKS ON LIST: 5
10. 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: 6
WEEKS ON LIST: 5
11. THE BOOK OF CHARLIE, by David Von Drehle. (Simon & Schuster) The Washington Post columnist shares stories and wisdom he learned from a neighbor who was more than a century old.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 7
12. DARK FUTURE, by Glenn Beck with Justin Haskins. (Forefront) The second book in the Great Reset series. The conservative commentator gives his take on advances in technology and their potential impact. (b)
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
13. 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: 8
WEEKS ON LIST: 3
14. POVERTY, BY AMERICA, by Matthew Desmond. (Crown) The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Evicted” examines the ways in which affluent Americans keep poor people poor.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 12
15. 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: 9
WEEKS ON LIST: 5
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