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New to the bestseller lists this week are a couple of dark new releases. First up, there’s Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab, a vampire gothic from the author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, the Shades of Magic series, and many other fan-favorite novels. The other title debuting on this list is Caught Up by Navessa Allen, the second book in the dark romance series that started with Lights Out.
This list continues to lack of diversity on many levels, including being disproportionately by white authors. Some Indie Bestsellers you should know about are King of Ashes by S.A. Cosby, The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong, and The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi.
To get these numbers, we look at the New York Times, both Combined Print & E-Book Fiction and Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction lists; Amazon Charts, both Fiction and Nonfiction; Publishers Weekly; and Indie Bestsellers, Fiction and Nonfiction, both Paperback and Hardcover. New additions to the list this week are bolded.
Books On All Five Bestseller Lists:
Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Books On Four Bestseller Lists:
Never Flinch by Stephen King (Publishers Weekly, USA Today, NYT, Indie Bestsellers)
The Tenant by Freida McFadden (Publishers Weekly, NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)
Books On Three Bestseller Lists:
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab (USA Today, NYT, Indie Bestsellers)
Caught Up by Navessa Allen (USA Today, NYT, Indie Bestsellers)
Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson (NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)
The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins (Publishers Weekly, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)
Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins (Publishers Weekly, USA Today, Amazon)
One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune (Publishers Weekly, NYT, Indie Bestsellers)
The First Gentleman by James Patterson and Bill Clinton (Publishers Weekly, NYT, Amazon)
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk (NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)
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