In the Likely Event of a Bestseller
Judy Blume’s In the Unlikely Event, her first adult novel since 1998’s Summer Sisters, lands at #3 on our Hardcover Fiction list this week, with 21K print units sold. This week also saw improved sales for a number of Blume’s books. Here’s our look at the prolific author’s top-selling titles this week—both adult and children’s—and how much this week’s unit sales improved over the previous week.
Print Units Sold
| Title | (Week Ended 6/7) | % Over Last Week |
|---|---|---|
| In the Unlikely Event | 21,371 | – |
| Summer Sisters (mass market) | 2,519 | ↑ 40% |
| Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing | 1,790 | ↑ 35% |
| Summer Sisters (trade paper) | 1,254 | ↑ 22% |
| Freckle Juice | 1,124 | ↑ 65% |
Prime Real Estate
Wednesday Martin’s Primates of Park Avenue, a life-among-the-natives look at Manhattan’s superrich, debuts at #8 on our Hardcover Nonfiction list, with 7,726 print units sold. The book has come under fire for alleged inaccuracies, including the notion of the “wife bonus,” a sum paid by husbands to their wives for performing well as a spouse. If the wife bonus does exist, it’s likely that some portion of it is being spent on the book: more than a third of copies sold this week were bought in New York City, making it the fifth bestselling book in the region. The DMA (designated market area) with the next best sales, Los Angeles, saw sales of just 379 print units, or less than half of one percent of sales.
Notable Debuts
Finders Keepers
by Stephen King
#1 Hardcover
Fiction
68K print units
The second novel in the projected trilogy that began with 2014’s Edgar Award–winning Mr. Mercedes is also the top-selling book in the country.
Dork Diaries 9: Tales from a Not-So-Dorky Drama Queen
by Rachel Renée Russell
#1 Children’s Frontlist Fiction
32K print units
The latest in Russell’s middle-grade series takes the #4 spot overall; book 10 in the series will pub Oct. 20.
Adios, America
by Ann Coulter
#3 Hardcover
Nonfiction
16K print units
Coulter expresses her views on immigration policy in a book subtitled The Left’s Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole.
Nemesis Games
by James S.A. Corey
#24 Hardcover
Fiction
2.3K print units
This is the fifth novel in the Hugo- and Locus Award–nominated series the Expanse, which the Syfy channel has adapted for broadcast later this year.
Top 10 Overall
| Rank | Title | Author | Imprint | Units |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finders Keepers | Stephen King | Scribner | 68,273 |
| 2 | Paper Towns | John Green | Penguin/Speak | 34,721 |
| 3 | Oh, the Places You’ll Go! | Dr. Seuss | Random | 33,048 |
| 4 | Dork Diaries 9: Tales from a Not-So-Dorky... | Rachel Renée Russell | S&S/Aladdin | 32,305 |
| 5 | The Girl on the Train | Paula Hawkins | Riverhead | 31,614 |
| 6 | Top Secret Twenty-One | Janet Evanovich | Bantam | 29,552 |
| 7 | The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up | Marie Kondo | Ten Speed | 25,216 |
| 8 | The Wright Brothers | David McCullough | Simon & Schuster | 24,611 |
| 9 | All the Light We Cannot See | Anthony Doerr | Scribner | 23,136 |
| 10 | In the Unlikely Event | Judy Blume | Knopf | 21,371 |
