Bestseller Stat Shot

New York City is the star of two bestsellers that were published last week: City on Fire, Garth Risk Hallberg’s 900-plus-page paean to gritty 1970s Manhattan (and surely the novel of the season), which lands at #6 on the Frontlist Fiction chart, and Humans of New York: Stories, the latest installment to Brandon Stanton’s Humans of New York canon, in at #2 on our Frontlist Nonfiction chart. Perhaps not surprisingly, New York was the DMA where both did the most business. Here’s how and where both sold in print out of the gate.

City on Fire Humans of New York: Stories
First-week sales 11,190 51,879
% copies sold in N.Y.C. 27% 15%
% copies sold in second-most-popular DMA 5% 6%
% copies sold in urban areas 32% 34%
% copies sold in rural areas 32% 29%

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