Rankings reflect sales for the week ended Jan. 31, 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
Saunders’ novel “Vigil” joins the list at No. 1. (Courtesy/Random House)
1. VIGIL, by George Saunders. (Random House) In the waning hours of an oil company CEO’s life, worldly and otherworldly visitors put his time on Earth in perspective.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
2. THE CORRESPONDENT, by Virginia Evans. (Crown) Letters from someone she used to know push Sybil Van Antwerp toward revisiting her past and finding a way to forgive.
LAST WEEK: 3
WEEKS ON LIST: 14
3. HALF HIS AGE, by Jennette McCurdy. (Ballantine) A 17-year-old named Waldo has an inexplicable attraction to her creative writing teacher.
LAST WEEK: 2
WEEKS ON LIST: 2
4. PENDERGAST: THE BEGINNING, by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. (Grand Central) Agent Pendergast’s ghastly first case involves a suspension and ritualistic killings.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
5. BURN DOWN MASTER’S HOUSE, by Clay Cane. (Dafina) Enslaved people engage in acts of resistance in the American South.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
6. THE WIDOW, by John Grisham. (Doubleday) When Simon Latch, a lawyer in rural Virginia, is accused of murder, he goes in search of the real killer.
LAST WEEK: 6
WEEKS ON LIST: 15
7. ALCHEMISED, by SenLinYu. (Del Rey) After the war, an imprisoned alchemist is sent to a necromancer to recover her lost memories.
LAST WEEK: 9
WEEKS ON LIST: 19
8. MY HUSBAND’S WIFE, by Alice Feeney. (Pine & Cedar) In an old house in a seaside town, things may not be what they appear to be.
LAST WEEK: 4
WEEKS ON LIST: 2
9. THE SECRET OF SECRETS, by Dan Brown. (Doubleday) As he searches for the missing noetic scientist he has been seeing, Robert Langdon discovers something regarding a secret project.
LAST WEEK: 8
WEEKS ON LIST: 21
10. HER SOUL FOR REVENGE, by Harley Laroux. (Kensington) The second book in the Souls trilogy. Juniper gives her soul to Zane so he will exact revenge on a cult, but now he wants her heart too.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
11. BRIMSTONE, by Callie Hart. (Forever) The second book in the Fae & Alchemy series. To save those close to them, Saeris and Fisher face a new set of dangers.
LAST WEEK: 12
WEEKS ON LIST: 11
12. THE THINGS WE LEAVE UNFINISHED, by Rebecca Yarros. (Amara) After a divorce, Georgia Stanton returns to Colorado and tries to protect her great-grandmother’s incomplete manuscript.
LAST WEEK: 5
WEEKS ON LIST: 2
13. THE FIRST TIME I SAW HIM, by Laura Dave. (Scribner) Hannah’s husband turns up five years after he disappeared, which forces her to go on the run with her daughter.
LAST WEEK: 7
WEEKS ON LIST: 4
14. ANATOMY OF AN ALIBI, by Ashley Elston. (Pamela Dorman) Two women enact a plan to uncover truths a man may have been hiding, but things go awry when he is found murdered.
LAST WEEK: 10
WEEKS ON LIST: 3
15. CARL’S DOOMSDAY SCENARIO, by Matt Dinniman. (Ace) The second book in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series. Carl and Donut confront an ancient spell and heightened dangers.
LAST WEEK: 14
WEEKS ON LIST: 3
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NONFICTION
1. THE INVISIBLE COUP, by Peter Schweizer. (Harper) The author of “Blood Money” puts forward his argument that mass migration is a political weapon.
LAST WEEK: 1
WEEKS ON LIST: 2
2. THE ANXIOUS GENERATION, by Jonathan Haidt. (Penguin Press) A co-author of “The Coddling of the American Mind” looks at the effects of a phone-based life on children’s mental health.
LAST WEEK: 5
WEEKS ON LIST: 93
3. WHERE WE KEEP THE LIGHT, by Josh Shapiro with Emily Jane Fox. (Harper) The governor of Pennsylvania chronicles events that shaped his life and his political career.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
4. STRANGERS, by Belle Burden. (Dial) Burden retraces her marriage of 20 years in search of clues to help shape her understanding about its demise and to find a way forward.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 2
5. HOW TO TEST NEGATIVE FOR STUPID, by John Kennedy. (Broadside) The Republican senator from Louisiana shares stories about politics in Washington, D.C., and in his home state.
LAST WEEK: 6
WEEKS ON LIST: 17
6. 1929, by Andrew Ross Sorkin. (Viking) The New York Times journalist and CNBC host looks at the fight between Washington and Wall Street that fueled a historic crash of the stock market.
LAST WEEK: 3
WEEKS ON LIST: 16
7. THE GUY YOU LOVED TO HATE, by Spencer Pratt. (Gallery) The reality TV star recounts setbacks he faced and how his life changed after the Palisades wildfires in 2025.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
8. NOBODY’S GIRL, by Virginia Roberts Giuffre. (Knopf) The late activist and advocate for sex-trafficking survivors describes her time with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
LAST WEEK: 4
WEEKS ON LIST: 15
9. ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS, by Omar El Akkad. (Knopf) In his nonfiction debut, El Akkad looks at how the West responds to mass suffering.
LAST WEEK: 10
WEEKS ON LIST: 9
10. BLACK AF HISTORY, by Michael Harriot. (Dey Street) A columnist at TheGrio.com articulates moments in American history that put the perspectives and experiences of Black Americans at the center.
LAST WEEK: 12
WEEKS ON LIST: 26
11. OUTLIVE, by Peter Attia with Bill Gifford. (Harmony) A look at recent scientific research on aging and longevity.
LAST WEEK: 9
WEEKS ON LIST: 130
12. EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS, by John Green. (Crash Course) The author of “The Anthropocene Reviewed” chronicles the fight against the deadly infectious disease tuberculosis.
LAST WEEK: 11
WEEKS ON LIST: 31
13. NEVER MIND THE HAPPY, by Marc Shaiman. (Regalo) The award-winning composer and co-lyricist shares moments from his career over the past five decades.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
14. FOOTBALL, by Chuck Klosterman. (Penguin Press) The author of “The Nineties” considers how the sport has affected American life.
LAST WEEK: 2
WEEKS ON LIST: 2
15. THE GALES OF NOVEMBER, by John U. Bacon. (Liveright) An account of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, an American Great Lakes freighter, 50 years ago.
LAST WEEK: 13
WEEKS ON LIST: 14
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