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

For once, this bestseller list is fairly different from last week’s. Some of the reigning champs, like Funny Story by Emily Henry, have fallen to only being on three of the five biggest lists. Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez went from being on all five lists last week to not making this round up at all. We also have a few new releases, including Eruption, which is based on notes by Michael Crichton and written by James Patterson — put those two powerhouse author names together and you have an easy win. The movie rights are already in a bidding war.

There are also a couple of sequels new to the list. Leather & Lark by Brynne Weaver is the second in a dark romance trilogy that began with the serial killer romance Butcher & Blackbird. Did you know that’s a romance subgenre? Because it is! The other sequel is The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King by Carissa Broadbent, the second in a romantasy series that started with The Serpent & the Wings of Night.

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 Mirrored Heavens by Rebecca Roanhorse, Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead, and The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones.

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.