This Week's Bestsellers: November 17, 2014

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Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken has resided comfortably on our Paperback Trade list for 15 weeks, with nearly 270K copies sold since its publication. Now, in advance of the December 25 release of the Angelina Jolie–directed film adaptation, comes a movie tie-in version. That lands at #6 on our list, with 8,418 copies sold its debut week—meaning that four of the top six trade paperbacks are Unbroken, Gone Girl, and their respective tie-ins.

Another movie tie-in for Gone Girl (yes, that’s three frontlist GG editions) sits on top of the Paperback Mass Market list for the second week in a row, 10 weeks after it first hit the list. Nicholas Sparks’s The Best of Me is on this week’s lists both in trade paper and in mass market, the latter for a tie-in to the October 17 movie. And we’ve got our eye on Cheryl Strayed’s Wild: the Reese Witherspoon vehicle opens December 5, and the trade paperback, a March 2013 release, is up 17% over last week with 4,815 units sold. The movie tie-in edition will pub November 18.

Kinney’s Big ‘Haul’

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul, the ninth book in Jeff Kinney’s series, moved nearly 320K copies in hardcover in the U.S. during its first week on sale, according to Nielsen BookScan. The last title to do that well its first week out? The previous book in the series, Hard Luck, which sold nearly 384K copies during its first week of availability in November 2013. Book seven, The Third Wheel, did nearly that well a year earlier, and in between, a couple of non-Kinney books earned spots in the 300K-plus debut club.

Too Many Cooks? Not Quite Yet

Celebrity cookbook season is upon us. Ina Garten’s Make It Ahead tops the Hardcover Nonfiction list for the second week in a row, with total sales at close to 185K units (and counting) since release. New this week: Gabrielle Hamilton’s Prune, featuring recipes from her 15-year-old East Village restaurant of the same name. At first-week sales of 4,032 units, it didn’t quite crack the Nonfiction list; her 2011 memoir, Blood, Bones & Butter, did better its first week out (5,791 units) and has gone on to sell more than 125K in hardcover and trade paper. Here’s a look at how new books by these and other name-brand chefs are faring.