Rankings reflect sales for the week ended July 27, 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 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: 1
WEEKS ON LIST: 25
2. THE BOOK OF ELSEWHERE, by Keanu Reeves and China Miéville. (Del Rey) An immortal soldier known as B strikes a deal with a U.S. black-ops group and encounters a mysterious force.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
3. THE DUKE AND I AND THE VISCOUNT WHO LOVED ME, by Julia Quinn. (Avon) The first book in the Bridgerton Collector’s Edition series.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
4. 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: 4
WEEKS ON LIST: 64
5. SWAN SONG, by Elin Hilderbrand. (Little, Brown) Nantucket residents are alarmed when a home, recently sold at an exorbitant price, goes up in flames and someone goes missing.
LAST WEEK: 3
WEEKS ON LIST: 7
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: 6
WEEKS ON LIST: 38
7. THE SPELLSHOP, by Sarah Beth Durst. (Bramble) When the Great Library of Alyssium is set aflame, Kiela and Caz take the spellbooks and bring magic to Kiela’s childhood home.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 2
8. ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK, by Chris Whitaker. (Crown) Questions arise when a boy saves the daughter of a wealthy family amid a string of disappearances in a Missouri town in 1975.
LAST WEEK: 14
WEEKS ON LIST: 5
9. ERUPTION, by Michael Crichton and James Patterson. (Little, Brown) The Big Island of Hawaii comes under threat by a volcano at the same time a secret held by the military comes to light.
LAST WEEK: 5
WEEKS ON LIST: 8
10. 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: 8
WEEKS ON LIST: 4
11. A DEATH IN CORNWALL, by Daniel Silva. (Harper) The 24th book in the Gabriel Allon series. Gabriel forges six Impressionist canvases and enlists an unlikely team of operatives to go after a new foe.
LAST WEEK: 7
WEEKS ON LIST: 3
12. YOU LIKE IT DARKER, by Stephen King. (Scribner) A dozen short stories that explore darkness in literal and metaphorical forms.
LAST WEEK: 9
WEEKS ON LIST: 10
13. CAMINO GHOSTS, by John Grisham. (Doubleday) The third book in the Camino series. The last living inhabitant of a deserted island gets in the way of a resort developer.
LAST WEEK: 10
WEEKS ON LIST: 9
14. FUNNY STORY, by Emily Henry. (Berkley) After their exes run off together, Daphne and Miles form a friendship and concoct a plan involving misleading photos.
LAST WEEK: 15
WEEKS ON LIST: 14
15. SANDWICH, by Catherine Newman. (Harper) During a summer vacation in Cape Cod, Rocky faces changes with her family, body and life.
LAST WEEK: 13
WEEKS ON LIST: 5
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NONFICTION
1. HILLBILLY ELEGY, by JD Vance. (Harper) The Yale Law School graduate and 2024 Republican vice presidential nominee looks at the struggles of the white working class through the story of his own childhood.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 75
2. THE ANXIOUS GENERATION, by Jonathan Haidt. (Penguin Press) A co-author of “The Coddling of the American Mind” looks at the mental health effects of a phone-based life on children.
LAST WEEK: 1
WEEKS ON LIST: 18
3. AUTOCRACY, INC., by Anne Applebaum. (Doubleday) The Pulitzer Prize-winning author elucidates the structures and technologies that bolster autocracies in the 21st century.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
4. THE DEMON OF UNREST, by Erik Larson. (Crown) The author of “The Splendid and the Vile” portrays the months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the beginning of the Civil War.
LAST WEEK: 2
WEEKS ON LIST: 13
5. THE WAR ON WARRIORS, by Pete Hegseth. (Broadside) The “Fox & Friends Weekend” host shares his experiences serving in the Army and his views on the current state of the American military. (b)
LAST WEEK: 6
WEEKS ON LIST: 8
6. OUTLIVE, by Peter Attia with Bill Gifford. (Harmony) A look at recent scientific research on aging and longevity.
LAST WEEK: 7
WEEKS ON LIST: 70
7. ON CALL, by Anthony S. Fauci. (Viking) The physician-scientist and immunologist chronicles his six decades of public service, including his work during the AIDS crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic.
LAST WEEK: 5
WEEKS ON LIST: 6
8. ASK NOT, by Maureen Callahan. (Little, Brown) The author of “American Predator” puts forward a history of the Kennedy family that describes the abuse of women in its orbit.
LAST WEEK: 4
WEEKS ON LIST: 4
9. TRUE GRETCH, by Gretchen Whitmer with Lisa Dickey. (Simon & Schuster) The governor of Michigan recounts defining moments from her life and time in office.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 2
10. NUCLEAR WAR, by Annie Jacobsen. (Dutton) The author of “Operation Paperclip” portrays possible outcomes in the minutes following a nuclear missile launch.
LAST WEEK: 8
WEEKS ON LIST: 9
11. WHAT THIS COMEDIAN SAID WILL SHOCK YOU, by Bill Maher. (Simon & Schuster) The host of “Real Time With Bill Maher” gives his take on a variety of subjects in American culture and politics.
LAST WEEK: 15
WEEKS ON LIST: 10
12. TIGER, TIGER, by James Patterson. (Little, Brown) The ups and downs in the life and career of the golf champion Tiger Woods.
LAST WEEK: 10
WEEKS ON LIST: 2
13. AN UNFINISHED LOVE STORY, by Doris Kearns Goodwin. (Simon & Schuster) A trove of items collected by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian’s late husband inspired an appraisal of central figures and pivotal moments of the 1960s.
LAST WEEK: 9
WEEKS ON LIST: 14
14. UNHUMANS, by Jack Posobiec and Joshua Lisec. (War Room) The senior editor of the conservative news outlet Human Events assesses some political movements and prescribes ways to counteract them. (b)
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
15. JFK JR., by RoseMarie Terenzio and Liz McNeil. (Gallery) Twenty-five years after his death, an oral biography of John F. Kennedy Jr.
LAST WEEK: 3
WEEKS ON LIST: 2
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