Rankings reflect sales for the week ended Feb. 7, 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 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: 2
WEEKS ON LIST: 15
2. STOLEN IN DEATH, by J.D. Robb. (St. Martin’s) The 62nd book of the In Death series. The murder of a multibillionaire reveals other crimes that Eve and her team must investigate to see if there is a connection.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
3. IT’S NOT HER, by Mary Kubica. (Park Row) Courtney Gray’s vacation is interrupted by two murders and a disappearance of relatives that bring up secrets involving her family and the town.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
4. HALF HIS AGE, by Jennette McCurdy. (Ballantine) A 17-year-old named Waldo has an inexplicable attraction to her creative writing teacher.
LAST WEEK: 3
WEEKS ON LIST: 3
5. ISLES OF THE EMBERDARK, by Brandon Sanderson. (Tor) Dusk sets off to save his people and forms an alliance with a dragon trapped in human form.
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: 16
7. ALCHEMISED, by SenLinYu. (Del Rey) After the war, an imprisoned alchemist is sent to a necromancer to recover her lost memories.
LAST WEEK: 7
WEEKS ON LIST: 20
8. 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: 1
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: 9
WEEKS ON LIST: 22
10. METAL SLINGER, by Rachel Schneider. (Saturday) Dangers test Brynn’s loyalty to the community she has known.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
11. 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: 15
WEEKS ON LIST: 4
12. DAWN OF THE NORTH, by Demi Winters. (Delacorte) The third book in the Ashen series. The sisters Saga and Silla must join forces to preserve their realm.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
13. JIGSAW, by Jonathan Kellerman. (Ballantine) The 41st book in the Alex Delaware series. Alex and Milo discover that two crimes have more in common than first appeared.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
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: 14
WEEKS ON LIST: 4
15. 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: 13
WEEKS ON LIST: 5
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NONFICTION
Law professor and litigator Jonathan Turley’s newest book joins the nonfiction list at No. 2. (Courtesy/Simon & Schuster)
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: 3
2. RAGE AND THE REPUBLIC, by Jonathan Turley. (Simon & Schuster) The law professor and legal analyst delves into the origins of and modern challenges to American democracy.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
3. 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: 8
WEEKS ON LIST: 16
4. 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: 5
WEEKS ON LIST: 18
5. 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: 4
WEEKS ON LIST: 3
6. 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: 10
WEEKS ON LIST: 27
7. 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: 2
WEEKS ON LIST: 94
8. 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: 6
WEEKS ON LIST: 17
9. WORK IN PROGRESS, by James Martin. (HarperOne) The author of “Learning to Pray” recounts several jobs he was given for which he had no training.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
10. LA LUCCI, by Susan Lucci with Laura Morton. (Blackstone) The television icon shares pivotal moments from her life and career.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
11. FOOTBALL, by Chuck Klosterman. (Penguin Press) The author of “The Nineties” considers ways the sport has impacted American life.
LAST WEEK: 14
WEEKS ON LIST: 3
12. LITURGIES OF THE WILD, by Martin Shaw. (Sentinel) A mythographer contends that a connection to myths can shape an understanding of our world and its inherent difficulties.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
13. MELANIA, by Melania Trump. (Skyhorse) The first lady describes her work as a fashion model, marriage to Donald Trump and time in the White House.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 22
14. JUNGLEKEEPER, by Paul Rosolie. (Convergent) A conservationist and explorer gives an account of his time spent in the Amazon rainforest.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 2
15. OUTLIVE, by Peter Attia with Bill Gifford. (Harmony) A look at recent scientific research on aging and longevity.
LAST WEEK: 11
WEEKS ON LIST: 131
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