October 7, 2020

Trade Paperback Fiction



Bestseller List for October 7, 2020
Based on sales for the week ending October 4, 2020
For an independent bookstore store near you, call 1-888-266-5736,
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  Trade Paperback Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. The Overstory
Richard Powers, Norton, $18.95, 9780393356687
National Book Award-winner Powers delivers a sweeping, impassioned novel of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of--and paean to--the natural world.
1/79
2. Circe
Madeline Miller, Back Bay, $16.99, 9780316556323
Miller's follow-up to The Song of Achilles is a triumph of storytelling, an intoxicating epic of family rivalry, palace intrigue, love and loss, as well as a celebration of indomitable female strength in a man's world.
3/25
3. The Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead, Anchor, $15.95, 9780345804341
Whitehead's masterful and haunting novel about two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida is the winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
2/14
4. Normal People
Sally Rooney, Hogarth, $17.00, 9781984822185
Rooney brings her brilliant psychological acuity and perfectly spare prose to a story that explores the subtleties of class, the electricity of first love, and the complex entanglements of family and friendship.
4/33
5. Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi, Vintage, $16.95, 9781101971062
Gyasi's extraordinary novel illuminates slavery's troubled legacy both for those who were taken and those who stayed--and shows how the memory of captivity has been inscribed on the soul of our nation.
5/33
6. This Tender Land
William Kent Krueger, Atria, $17.00, 9781476749303
A magnificent novel about four orphans on a life-changing odyssey during the Great Depression.
7/18
7. The Topeka School- Debut
Ben Lerner, Picador, $17.00, 9781250758002
Lerner's novel is a tender and expansive family drama set in the American Midwest at the turn of the 21st century.
/1
8. The Testaments
Margaret Atwood, Anchor, $16.95, 9780525562627
Atwood's masterful sequel to her modern classic, The Handmaid's Tale.
6/5
9. Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng, Penguin, $17.00, 9780143135166
A riveting novel that traces the intertwined fates of a picture-perfect family and the enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives. Now a Hulu original series.
9/74
10. Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler, Grand Central, $16.99, 9781538732182
A post-apocalyptic novel of hope and terror by the bestselling author of Kindred.
11/7
11. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $18.00, 9780441013593
Herbert's classic masterpiece--a triumph of the imagination--is soon to be a major motion picture.
8/4
12. The Starless Sea
Erin Morgenstern, Anchor, $16.95, 9781101971383
A timeless love story set in a secret underground world--a place of pirates, painters, lovers, liars, and ships that sail upon a starless sea.
13/9
13. The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller, Ecco, $16.99, 9780062060624
Miller's monumental debut novel is an action-packed adventure and epic love story that brilliantly re-imagines Homer's enduring masterwork, The Iliad.
12/5
14. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Olga Tokarczuk, Riverhead Books, $17.00, 9780525541349
Tokarczuk's Nobel Prize-winning novel is deeply satisfying thriller cum fairy tale, and a provocative exploration of the murky borderland between sanity and madness, justice and tradition, autonomy and fate.
/7
15. Girl, Woman, Other
Bernardine Evaristo, Grove Press/Black Cat, $17.00, 9780802156983
Girl, Woman, Other is a polyphonic and richly textured social novel of black British history. Co-winner of the 2019 Booker Prize.
/34


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Trade Paperback Nonfiction



Bestseller List for October 7, 2020
Based on sales for the week ending October 4, 2020
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  Trade Paperback Nonfiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. My Own Words
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, S&S, $18.00, 9781501145254
Ruth Bader Ginsburg's first book after becoming a Supreme Court Justice in 1993 is a witty, engaging, and serious collection of writings and speeches.
1/39
2. White Fragility
Robin DiAngelo, Beacon Press, $16.00, 9780807047415
DiAngelo explores the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.
2/78
3. Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $18.00, 9781571313560
Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, and as a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear their voices.
7/43
4. The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson, Vintage, $17.95, 9780679763888
Pulitzer Prize-winner Wilkerson's chronicle of the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South in search of a better life.
3/35
5. So You Want to Talk About Race
Ijeoma Oluo, Seal Press, $16.99, 9781580058827
Oluo guides readers of all races in an attempt to make the seemingly impossible possible: honest conversations about race and racism, and how they infect almost every aspect of American life.
6/19
6. The Color of Law
Richard Rothstein, Liveright, $17.95, 9781631494536
Rothstein's powerful book describes how the American government systematically imposed residential segregation.
4/23
7. Intimations
Zadie Smith, Penguin, $10.95, 9780593297612
Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of reflective essays by one of the most clear-sighted and essential writers of our time.
11/10
8. The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin, Vintage, $13.95, 9780679744726
At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice.
10/18
9. Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life
Jane Sherron de Hart, Vintage, $18.00, 9781984897831
Jane Sherron de Hart explores the central experiences that crucially shaped Ginsburg's passion for justice, her advocacy for gender equality, and her meticulous jurisprudence, as well as her desire to make "We the people" more united and our union more perfect.
5/3
10. My Grandmother's Hands
Resmaa Menakem, Central Recovery Press, $17.95, 9781942094470
In this groundbreaking book, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of trauma and body-centered psychology.
14/14
11. Born a Crime
Trevor Noah, One World, $18.00, 9780399588198
Noah's compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime coming-of-age memoir is set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed.
12/82
12. The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander, New Press, $18.99, 9781620971932
The tenth-anniversary edition of Alexander's iconic book discusses the impact the book has had and the state of the criminal justice reform movement today.
9/19
13. Stamped from the Beginning
Ibram X. Kendi, Bold Type Books, $19.99, 9781568585987
Kendi's National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society.
13/19
14. Just Mercy
Bryan Stevenson, One World, $17.00, 9780593133934
A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice.
/39
15. Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari, Harper Perennial, $24.99, 9780062316110
A groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be human.
15/113


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Hardcover Fiction



Bestseller List for October 7, 2020
Based on sales for the week ending October 4, 2020
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  Hardcover Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett, Riverhead Books, $27.00, 9780525536291
Bennett's beautiful new novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white. A June 2020 Indie Next List Great Read.
2/18
2. Anxious People
Fredrik Backman, Atria, $28.00, 9781501160837
An ingeniously constructed novel about the enduring power of friendship, forgiveness, and hope--the things that save us, even in the most anxious times. The #1 Indie Next List Great Read for September 2020.
1/4
3. Jack- Debut
Marilynne Robinson, FSG, $27.00, 9780374279301
Pulitzer Prize-winner Robinson returns to the world of Gilead with Jack, the latest novel in one of the great works of contemporary American fiction.
/1
4. All the Devils Are Here
Louise Penny, Minotaur, $28.99, 9781250145239
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache investigates a sinister plot in the City of Light.
4/5
5. A Deadly Education- Debut
Naomi Novik, Del Rey, $28.00, 9780593128480
Novik's new novel is the story of an unwilling dark sorceress who is destined to rewrite the rules of magic. An October 2020 Indie Next List Great Read.
/1
6. The Evening and the Morning
Ken Follett, Viking, $36.00, 9780525954989
Follett's thrilling and addictive new Kingsbridge novel is a prequel to The Pillars of the Earth.
3/3
7. The Lying Life of Adults
Elena Ferrante, Europa Editions, $26.00, 9781609455910
Ferrante's powerful and gripping new novel about the transition from childhood to adolescence to adulthood is a September 2020 Indie Next List Great Read.
7/5
8. Transcendent Kingdom
Yaa Gyasi, Knopf, $27.95, 9780525658184
Gyasi's stunning follow-up to Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama. A September 2020 Indie Next List Great Read.
6/5
9. The Book of Two Ways
Jodi Picoult, Ballantine, $28.99, 9781984818355
Picoult's riveting new novel about the choices that alter the course of our lives.
5/2
10. Battle Ground- Debut
Jim Butcher, Ace, $28.00, 9780593199305
Things are about to get very serious for for Harry Dresden in Butcher's latest Dresden Files novel.
/1
11. The Return- Debut
Nicholas Sparks, Grand Central, $28.00, 9781538728574
Sparks' new novel is the the story of an injured Navy doctor and two women whose secrets will change the course of his life.
/1
12. Piranesi
Susanna Clarke, Bloomsbury Publishing, $27.00, 9781635575637
The intoxicating, hypnotic new novel by the bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell is a September 2020 Indie Next List Great Read.
8/3
13. Squeeze Me
Carl Hiaasen, Knopf, $28.95, 9781524733452
Hiaasen's hilarious new novel of social and political intrigue, set against the glittering backdrop of Florida's gold coast.
10/6
14. The Midnight Library- Debut
Matt Haig, Viking, $26.00, 9780525559474
Haig's latest is a dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived.
/1
15. Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Del Rey, $27.00, 9780525620785
A re-imagining of the classic gothic suspense novel, Mexican Gothic is a story about an isolated mansion in 1950s Mexico--and the brave socialite drawn to its treacherous secrets. The #1 Indie Next List Great Read for July 2020.
15/14


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Hardcover Nonfiction



Bestseller List for October 7, 2020
Based on sales for the week ending October 4, 2020
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  Hardcover Nonfiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. Caste
Isabel Wilkerson, Random House, $32.00, 9780593230251
Beautifully written, original, and revealing, Caste is an eye-opening story of people and history, and a reexamination of what lies under the surface of ordinary lives and of American life today.
2/9
2. Rage
Bob Woodward, S&S, $30.00, 9781982131739
Woodward's new book is an unprecedented and intimate tour de force of new reporting on the Trump presidency facing a global pandemic, economic disaster, and racial unrest.
1/3
3. Solutions and Other Problems
Allie Brosh, Gallery Books, $30.00, 9781982156947
The bestselling author of Hyperbole and a Half returns with a new collection of comedic, autobiographical, and illustrated essays. An October 2020 Indie Next List Great Read.
3/2
4. How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi, One World, $27.00, 9780525509288
Kendi's book is an essential work for anyone who wants to go beyond the awareness of racism to the next step: contributing to the formation of a just and equitable society.
4/26
5. Untamed
Glennon Doyle, The Dial Press, $28.00, 9781984801258
In Doyle's most revealing and powerful memoir yet, she explores the joy and peace we discover when we stop striving to meet the expectations of the world, and start trusting the voice deep within us.
5/30
6. The Splendid and the Vile
Erik Larson, Crown, $32.00, 9780385348713
Larson's fresh and compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz is a March 2020 Indie Next List Great Read.
7/32
7. Disloyal
Michael Cohen, Skyhorse, $32.50, 9781510764699
An insider's account by the former attorney and personal advisor to President Donald Trump.
6/4
8. Too Much and Never Enough
Mary L. Trump, Ph.D., S&S, $28.00, 9781982141462
Mary L. Trump's revelatory and authoritative portrait of her uncle, Donald J. Trump.
8/12
9. The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III- Debut
Peter Baker, Susan Glasser, Doubleday, $35.00, 9780385540551
A biography of former White House chief of staff and secretary of state James A. Baker III.
/1
10. Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown: Verses for a Despotic Age- Debut
John Lithgow, Chronicle Prism, $22.95, 9781797209463
Lithgow presents a brand-new collection of satirical poems chronicling the age of Donald Trump.
/1
11. Vesper Flights
Helen MacDonald, Grove Press, $27.00, 9780802128812
Macdonald's new collection of essays is a captivating and foundational book about observation, fascination, time, memory, love, and loss and how we make sense of the world around us. A September 2020 Indie Next List Great Read.
10/6
12. Notorious RBG
Irin Carmon, Shana Knizhnik, Dey Street, $25.99, 9780062415837
A visually rich, intimate, and unprecedented look at the life of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
/20
13. The Meaning of Mariah Carey- Debut
Mariah Carey, Andy Cohen Books, $29.99, 9781250164681
An autobiography by the award-winning singer and songwriter.
/1
14. Breath
James Nestor, Riverhead Books, $28.00, 9780735213616
Breath turns the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function on its head. You will never breathe the same again.
12/18
15. Eat a Peach
David Chang, Gabe Ulla, Clarkson Potter, $28.00, 9781524759216
Chang gives us a penetrating look at restaurant life, in which he balances his deep love for the kitchen with unflinching honesty about the industry's history and its uncertain future. A September 2020 Indie Next List Great Read.
13/4


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Mass Market



Bestseller List for October 7, 2020
Based on sales for the week ending October 4, 2020
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  Mass Market Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780441172719
1/46
2. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935
2/222
3. Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780593098233
4/3
4. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou, Ballantine, $7.99, 9780345514400
6/29
5. One Good Deed
David Baldacci, Grand Central, $9.99, 9781538750544
9/5
6. Lethal Agent
Vince Flynn, Kyle Mills, Pocket, $9.99, 9781501190636
7/6
7. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
8/13
8. The Shining
Stephen King, Anchor, $8.99, 9780307743657
/6
9. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $7.99, 9780553577129
10/8
10. The Guardians
John Grisham, Dell, $9.99, 9780525620945
3/14


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Early & Middle Grade Readers



Bestseller List for October 7, 2020
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  Early & Middle Grade Readers  
1. Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Adventure
Jeff Kinney, Amulet, $14.99, 9781419749094
 
2. The One and Only Bob
Katherine Applegate, Patricia Castelao (Illus.), Harper, $18.99, 9780062991317
 
3. Skunk and Badger
Amy Timberlake, Jon Klassen (Illus.), Algonquin Young Readers, $18.95, 9781643750057
 
4. New Kid
Jerry Craft, Harper, $12.99, 9780062691194
 
5. The One and Only Ivan
Katherine Applegate, Patricia Castelao (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780061992278
 
6. When Stars Are Scattered
Victoria Jamieson, Omar Mohamed, Dial Books, $12.99, 9780525553908
 
7. Guts
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9780545852500
 
8. A Whale of the Wild
Rosanne Parry, Lindsay Moore (Illus.), Greenwillow Books, $17.99, 9780062995926
 
9. Witches of Brooklyn
Sophie Escabasse, Random House Graphic, $12.99, 9780593119273
 
10. Weird But True Halloween: 300 Spooky Facts to Scare You Silly- Debut
Julie Beer, Michelle Harris, National Geographic Kids, $8.99, 9781426338281
 
11. This Book Is Anti-Racist
Tiffany Jewell, Aurelia Durand (Illus.), Frances Lincoln Children's Books, $14.99, 9780711245211
 
12. Hatchet
Gary Paulsen, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9781481486293
 
13. Smile
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $10.99, 9780545132060
 
14. The Witches: The Graphic Novel- Debut
Roald Dahl, Penelope Bagieu (Illus.), Scholastic, $14.99, 9781338677430
 
15. Ghosts
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $10.99, 9780545540629
 


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Young Adult



Bestseller List for October 7, 2020
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  Young Adult  
1. Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780316453691
 
2. Dear Justyce- Debut
Nic Stone, Crown Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9781984829665
 
3. Skyhunter- Debut
Marie Lu, Roaring Brook Press, $19.99, 9781250221681
 
4. Legendborn
Tracy Deonn, Margaret K. McElderry Books, $18.99, 9781534441606
 
5. The Hate U Give
Angie Thomas, Balzer + Bray, $18.99, 9780062871350
 
6. The Left-Handed Booksellers of London
Garth Nix, Katherine Tegen Books, $19.99, 9780062683250
 
7. Punching the Air
Ibi Zoboi, Yusef Salaam, Balzer + Bray, $19.99, 9780062996480
 
8. Dear Martin (An Indies Introduce Title)
Nic Stone, Ember, $9.99, 9781101939529
 
9. The Giver
Lois Lowry, HMH Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780544340688
 
10. Grown
Tiffany D. Jackson, Katherine Tegen Books, $17.99, 9780062840356
 
11. Clap When You Land
Elizabeth Acevedo, Quill Tree Books, $18.99, 9780062882769
 
12. We Were Liars
E. Lockhart, Ember, $10.99, 9780385741279
 
13. Cemetery Boys (An Indies Introduce Title)
Aiden Thomas, Swoon Reads, $17.99, 9781250250469
 
14. One of Us Is Lying
Karen M. McManus, Delacorte Press, $17.99, 9781524714680
 
15. All This Time- Debut
Mikki Daughtry, Rachael Lippincott, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9781534466340
 


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Children's Illustrated



Bestseller List for October 7, 2020
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  Children's Illustrated  
1. Room on the Broom Push-Pull-Slide Board Book
Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.), Dial Books, $8.99, 9780593110409
 
2. Antiracist Baby
Ibram X. Kendi, Ashley Lukashevsky (Illus.), Kokila, $8.99, 9780593110508
 
3. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780694003617
 
4. Bunheads- Debut
Misty Copeland, Setor Fiadzigbey (Illus.), G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9780399547645
 
5. Little Blue Truck's Halloween
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), HMH Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9780544772533
 
6. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $19.95, 9780060254926
 
7. I Promise
LeBron James, Nina Mata (Illus.), Harper, $19.99, 9780062971067
 
8. Gustavo, the Shy Ghost
Flavia Z. Drago, Candlewick, $16.99, 9781536211146
 
9. I Am Every Good Thing
Derrick Barnes, Gordon C. James (Illus.), Nancy Paulsen Books, $17.99, 9780525518778
 
10. Construction Site Mission: Demolition!- Debut
Sherri Duskey Rinker, AG Ford (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $17.99, 9781452182575
 
11. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, Putnam, $10.99, 9780399226908
 
12. Unicorns Are the Worst!- Debut
Alex Willan, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9781534453838
 
13. I Look Up To... Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Anna Membrino, Fatti Burke (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers, $7.99, 9780525579526
 
14. Becoming a Good Creature- Debut
Sy Montgomery, Rebecca Green (Illus.), HMH Books for Young Readers, $17.99. 9780358252108
 
15. If You Come to Earth
Sophie Blackall, Chronicle Books, $18.99, 9781452137797
 


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Children's Series



Bestseller List for October 7, 2020
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  Children's Series  
1. Dog Man (hardcover)
Dav Pilkey, Graphix
 
2. Harry Potter (hardcover and paperback)
J.K. Rowling, Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine Books
 
3. Wings of Fire (hardcover and paperback)
Tui T. Sutherland, Scholastic
 
4. Who Was/Is...? (paperback)
Ellen Morgan, et al., Penguin Workshop
 
5. Diary of a Wimpy Kid (hardcover)
Jeff Kinney, Amulet
 
6. Magic Tree House (hardcover and paperback)
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House
 
7. I Survived (paperback)
Lauren Tarshis, Scholastic
 
8. The Last Kids on Earth (hardcover and paperback)
Max Brallier, Douglas Holgate (Illus.), Viking Books for Young Readers
 
9. Twilight (hardcover and paperback)
Stephenie Meyer, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
 
10. A Tale of Magic... (hardcover and paperback)
Chris Colfer, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
New in Series: A Tale of Witchcraft…(9780316523561)
 


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Extended Paperback Fiction

Based on sales for the week ending October 4, 2020

16. The Institute
Stephen King, Gallery Books, $19.99, 9781982110581

17. Nothing to See Here
Kevin Wilson, Ecco, $16.99, 9780062913494

18. A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles, Penguin, $17.00, 9780143110439

19. Cilka's Journey
Heather Morris, St. Martin's Griffin, $16.99, 9781250265692

20. The World That We Knew
Alice Hoffman, S&S, $17.00, 9781501137587

21. The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Heather Morris, Harper, $16.99, 9780062797155

22. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
Kim Michele Richardson, Sourcebooks Landmark, $15.99, 9781492671527

23. When No One Is Watching
Alyssa Cole, Morrow, $16.99, 9780062982650

24. Red at the Bone
Jacqueline Woodson, Riverhead Books, $16.00, 9780525535287

25. Gideon the Ninth
Tamsyn Muir, Tor.com, $17.99, 9781250313188

26. What Happens in Paradise
Elin Hilderbrand, Back Bay , $16.99, 9780316435543

27. The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood, Anchor, $15.95, 9780525435006

28. Still Life
Louise Penny, St. Martin's, $17.99, 9780312541538

29. The Selected Works of Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde, Roxane Gay (Ed.), Norton, $16.95, 9781324004615

30. Lovecraft Country
Matt Ruff, Harper Perennial, $16.99, 9780062292070

31. All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr, Scribner, $18.00, 9781501173219

32. The Fifth Season
N.K. Jemisin, Orbit, $15.99, 9780316229296

33. The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho, HarperOne, $16.99, 9780062315007

34. The Memory Police
Yoko Ogawa, Vintage, $16.00, 9781101911815

35. Agent Running in the Field
John le Carré, Penguin, $17.00, 9781984878892

36. City of Girls
Elizabeth Gilbert, Riverhead Books, $17.00, 9781594634741

37. The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu, Tor, $17.99, 9780765382030

38. The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin's Griffin, $17.99, 9781250080400

39. Pachinko
Min Jin Lee, Grand Central, $16.99, 9781455563920

40. The Great Alone
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin's Griffin, $17.99, 9781250229533

41. The Island of Sea Women
Lisa See, Scribner, $18.00, 9781501154867

42. The Guest Book
Sarah Blake, Flatiron Books, $17.99, 9781250110275

43. Beach Read
Emily Henry, Berkley, $16.00, 9781984806734

44. Disappearing Earth
Julia Phillips, Vintage, $16.95, 9780525436225

45. My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante, Europa Editions, $17.00, 9781609455064

46. The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison, Vintage, $14.95, 9780307278449

47. Chances Are . . .
Richard Russo, Vintage, $16.00, 9781101971994

48. Exhalation
Ted Chiang, Vintage, $16.95, 9781101972083

49. There There
Tommy Orange, Vintage, $16.00, 9780525436140

50. Beowulf: A New Translation
Maria Dahvana Headley, MCD x FSG Originals, $15.00, 9780374110031

Extended Paperback Nonfiction

Based on sales for the week ending October 4, 2020

16. The Truths We Hold
Kamala Harris, Penguin, $18.00, 9780525560739

17. A Woman of No Importance
Sonia Purnell, Penguin, $18.00, 9780735225312

18. The Body Keeps the Score
Bessel van der Kolk, Penguin, $19.00, 9780143127741

19. Say Nothing
Patrick Radden Keefe, Anchor, $16.95, 9780307279286

20. The Yellow House
Sarah M. Broom, Grove Press, $17.00, 9780802149039

21. Furious Hours
Casey Cep, Vintage, $16.95, 9781101972052

22. Decisions and Dissents of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Corey Brettschneider (Ed.), Penguin Classics, $15.00, 9780143135111

23. Year of the Monkey
Patti Smith, Vintage, $16.00, 9781984898920

24. The Pioneers
David McCullough, S&S, $18.00, 9781501168703

25. Know My Name
Chanel Miller, Penguin, $18.00, 9780735223721

26. On Tyranny
Timothy Snyder, Tim Duggan Books, $9.99, 9780804190114

27. Life Undercover
Amaryllis Fox, Vintage, $16.95, 9780525564089

28. The Old Farmer's Almanac 2021
Old Farmer's Almanac, $8.95, 9781571988485

29. Wow, No Thank You.
Samantha Irby, Vintage, $15.95, 9780525563488

30. Three Women
Lisa Taddeo, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $17.00, 9781451642308

31. All About Love
bell hooks, Morrow, $15.99, 9780060959470

32. March: Book One
John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell (Illus.), Top Shelf Productions, $14.95, 9781603093002

33. Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?
Caitlin Doughty, Dianné Ruz (Illus.), Norton , $15.95, 9780393358490

34. Trick Mirror
Jia Tolentino, Random House, $18.00, 9780525510567

35. The Devil in the White City
Erik Larson, Vintage, $16.00, 9780375725609

36. Running with Sherman
Christopher McDougall, Vintage, $16.95, 9780525433255

37. The Four Agreements
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310

38. H Is for Hawk
Helen Macdonald, Grove Press, $16.00, 9780802124739

39. Hyperbole and a Half
Allie Brosh, Touchstone, $19.99, 9781451666175

40. Pleasure Activism
Adrienne Maree Brown (Ed.), AK Press, $20.00, 9781849353267

41. Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Beverly Daniel Tatum, Basic Books, $18.99, 9780465060689

42. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Beacon Press, $16.00, 9780807057834

43. When Things Fall Apart
Pema Chödrön, Shambhala, $16.95, 9781611803433

44. Are Prisons Obsolete?
Angela Y. Davis, Seven Stories Press, $15.95, 9781583225813

45. Underland
Robert Macfarlane, Norton, $17.95, 9780393358094

46. Our Malady
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12.00, 9780593238899

47. The Great Influenza
John M. Barry, Penguin, $19.00, 9780143036494

48. Emergent Strategy
Adrienne Maree Brown, AK Press, $16.00, 9781849352604

49. A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn, Harper Perennial Modern Classics, $21.99, 9780062397348

50. March: Book Three
John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell (Illus.), Top Shelf Productions, $19.99, 9781603094023

Extended Hardcover Fiction

Based on sales for the week ending October 4, 2020

16. The Guest List
Lucy Foley, Morrow, $27.99, 9780062868930

17. Troubled Blood
Robert Galbraith, Mulholland Books, $29.00, 9780316498937

18. Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens, Putnam, $26.00, 9780735219090

19. Monogamy
Sue Miller, Harper, $28.99, 9780062969651

20. One by One
Ruth Ware, Gallery/Scout Press, $27.99, 9781501188817

21. Whale Day: And Other Poems
Billy Collins, Random House, $26.00, 9780399589751

22. Just Like You
Nick Hornby, Riverhead Books, $27.00, 9780593191385

23. American Dirt
Jeanine Cummins, Flatiron Books, $27.99, 9781250209764

24. Homeland Elegies
Ayad Akhtar, Little, Brown, $28.00, 9780316496421

25. To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
Christopher Paolini, Tor, $29.99, 9781250762849

26. Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell, Knopf, $26.95, 9780525657606

27. The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman, Pamela Dorman Books, $26.00, 9781984880963

28. The Dutch House
Ann Patchett, Harper, $27.99, 9780062963673

29. Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
Lana Del Rey, S&S, $24.99, 9781982167288

30. Such a Fun Age
Kiley Reid, Putnam, $26.00, 9780525541905

31. The Exiles
Christina Baker Kline, Custom House, $27.99, 9780062356345

32. Next to Last Stand
Craig Johnson, Viking, $28.00, 9780525522539

33. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong, Penguin Press, $26.00, 9780525562023

34. The Silent Patient
Alex Michaelides, Celadon Books, $26.99, 9781250301697

35. The Book of Longings
Sue Monk Kidd, Viking, $28.00, 9780525429760

36. Migrations
Charlotte McConaghy, Flatiron Books, $26.99, 9781250204028

37. How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons): Poetry
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper, $24.99, 9780062993083

38. Luster
Raven Leilani, FSG, $26.00, 9780374194321

39. Total Power
Vince Flynn, Kyle Mills, Atria/Emily Bestler Books, $28.99, 9781501190650

40. The City We Became
N.K. Jemisin, Orbit, $28.00, 9780316509848

41. The Constant Rabbit
Jasper Fforde, Viking, $28.00, 9780593296523

42. What Are You Going Through
Sigrid Nunez, Riverhead Books, $26.00, 9780593191415

43. A Burning
Megha Majumdar, Knopf, $25.95, 9780525658696

44. The Glass Hotel
Emily St. John Mandel, Knopf, $26.95, 9780525521143

45. Deacon King Kong
James McBride, Riverhead Books, $28.00, 9780735216723

46. The Order
Daniel Silva, Harper, $28.99, 9780062834843

47. Bestiary
K-Ming Chang, One World, $27.00, 9780593132586

48. Writers & Lovers
Lily King, Grove Press, $27.00, 9780802148537

49. The Orphan's Guilt
Archer Mayor, Minotaur, $27.99, 9781250224149

50. The Boy in the Field
Margot Livesey, Harper, $26.99, 9780062946393

Extended Hardcover Nonfiction

Based on sales for the week ending October 4, 2020

16. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Charlie Mackesy, HarperOne, $22.99, 9780062976581

17. All We Can Save
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Katharine K. Wilkinson (Eds.), One World, $29.00, 9780593237069

18. His Truth Is Marching On
Jon Meacham, Random House, $30.00, 9781984855022

19. Where Law Ends
Andrew Weissmann, Random House, $30.00, 9780593138571

20. Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates, One World, $26.00, 9780812993547

21. Abe
David S. Reynolds, Penguin Press, $45.00, 9781594206047

22. Just Us
Claudia Rankine, Graywolf Press, $30.00, 9781644450215

23. Killing Crazy Horse
Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard, Holt, $30.00, 9781627797047

24. Me and White Supremacy
Layla Saad, Sourcebooks, $25.99, 9781728209807

25. What It's Like to Be a Bird
David Allen Sibley, Knopf, $35.00, 9780307957894

26. Everything Beautiful in Its Time
Jenna Bush Hager, Morrow, $26.99, 9780062960627

27. Think Like a Monk
Jay Shetty, S&S, $27.00, 9781982134488

28. Agent Sonya
Ben Macintyre, Crown, $28.00, 9780593136300

29. Educated
Tara Westover, Random House, $28.00, 9780399590504

30. Didn't See That Coming
Rachel Hollis, Dey Street Books, $20.00, 9780063010529

31. Battlegrounds
H.R. McMaster, Harper, $35.00, 9780062899460

32. Becoming
Michelle Obama, Crown, $32.50, 9781524763138

33. Hood Feminism
Mikki Kendall, Viking, $26.00, 9780525560548

34. The Daughters of Yalta
Catherine Grace Katz, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $28.00, 9780358117858

35. His Very Best
Jonathan Alter, S&S, $37.50, 9781501125485

36. Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat
Samin Nosrat, Wendy MacNaughton (Illus.), S&S, $35.00, 9781476753836

37. Talking to Strangers
Malcolm Gladwell, Little, Brown, $30.00, 9780316478526

38. The Gifts of Imperfection: 10th Anniversary Edition
Brené Brown, Random House, $25.00, 9780593133583

39. This Isn't Happening
Steven Hyden, Hachette Books, $27.00, 9780306845680

40. If Then
Jill Lepore, Liveright, $28.95, 9781631496103

41. Creativity
John Cleese, Crown, $14.00, 9780385348270

42. Entangled Life
Merlin Sheldrake, Random House, $28.00, 9780525510314

43. Begin Again
Eddie S. Glaude, Crown, $27.00, 9780525575320

44. Modern Comfort Food
Ina Garten, Clarkson Potter, $35.00, 9780804187060

45. Pocket RBG Wisdom
Hardie Grant Books, Hardie Grant, $9.99, 9781784882877

46. Compromised
Peter Strzok, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $30.00, 9780358237068

47. Hoax
Brian Stelter, Atria/One Signal Publishers, $28.00, 9781982142445

48. World of Wonders
Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Fumi Nakamura (Illus.), Milkweed Editions, $25.00, 9781571313652

49. Love is the Way
Bishop Michael Curry, Sara Grace, Avery, $27.00, 9780525543039

50. Owls of the Eastern Ice
Jonathan C. Slaght, FSG, $28.00, 9780374228484

Extended Mass Market

Based on sales for the week ending October 4, 2020

11. Lord of the Flies
William Golding, Perigee, $11.00, 9780399501487

12. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $7.99, 9780345391803

13. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcom X, Ballantine, $7.99, 9780345350688

14. The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488

15. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey, Signet, $9.99, 9780451163967

16. The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $9.99, 9780765365279

17. The Family Lawyer
James Patterson, Grand Central, $9.99, 9781538751589

18. The Last Odyssey
James Rollins, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062892928

19. Good Omens
Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062836977

20. Winter in Paradise
Elin Hilderbrand, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316435529

21. Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck, Penguin, $12.00, 9780140177398

22. The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $9.99, 9780756404741

23. The Outsider
Stephen King, Pocket, $10.99, 9781501180996

24. The Stand
Stephen King, Anchor, $9.99, 9780307743688

25. Every Breath
Nicholas Sparks, Grand Central, $9.99, 9781538728550

26. Children of Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780593098240

27. The Flight Attendant
Chris Bohjalian, Vintage, $9.99, 9780593081631

28. 'Salem's Lot
Stephen King, Anchor, $8.99, 9780307743671

29. Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $8.99, 9781250318541

30. Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin, Vintage, $7.99, 9780345806543

31. The Girl Who Lived Twice
David Lagercrantz, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, $9.99, 9780593082522

32. Rebecca
Daphne Du Maurier, Avon, $8.99, 9780380778553

33. A Time to Kill
John Grisham, Dell, $9.99, 9780440245919

34. Outlander
Diana Gabaldon, Dell, $9.99, 9780553393699

35. And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie, Morrow, $8.99, 9780062073488

36. The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin, Ace, $9.99, 9780441478125

37. Hamlet
William Shakespeare, S&S, $6.99, 9780743477123

38. Women Who Run With the Wolves
Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ballantine, $8.99, 9780345409874

39. The Andromeda Evolution
Michael Crichton, Daniel H. Wilson, Harper, $9.99, 9780062473349

40. American Gods
Neil Gaiman, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062572110

41. Still Life
Louise Penny, St. Martin's, $7.99, 9781250068736

42. The Last Wish
Andrzej Sapkowski, Orbit, $8.99, 9780316029186

43. Nine Perfect Strangers
Liane Moriarty, Flatiron Books, $9.99, 9781250755834

44. Killing the Rising Sun
Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard, St. Martin's, $9.99, 9781250755612

45. Camino Island
John Grisham, Dell, $9.99, 9781524797157

46. Criss Cross
James Patterson, Grand Central, $9.99, 9781538715406

47. The Couple Next Door
Shari Lapena, Penguin, $9.99, 9780525505310

48. The Reckoning
John Grisham, Dell, $9.99, 9780525620938

49. The Eye of the World
Robert Jordan, Tor, $10.99, 9781250251466

50. Oathbringer
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9780765365293

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