Curiouser and Curiouser

The #6 book in the country is Interesting Facts for Curious Minds by Jordan Moore. Scant info on the author or the publisher (Red Panda Press) exists online, and an accurate pub date is hard to pin down, but that hasn’t stopped the book-buying public. Since BookScan began keeping track of the trivia title’s sales in September, it’s sold 127K print copies.

Package Deal

Cormac McCarthy lands at #9 on our hardcover fiction list with Stella Maris. It’s the second volume in the duology that began with The Passenger, which pubbed October 25. Also out this week is The Passenger Box Set, which includes both books; PW doesn’t rank box sets on our list, but the set sold 17K print copies this week—a few hundred more than Stella Maris alone. To date, the duology has sold 101K print copies.

Seal of Approval

Retired Navy SEAL David Goggins, who has 5.5 million followers on Instagram, self-published the motivational memoir Can’t Hurt Me in 2018. It’s since sold 529K print copies, though numerous online reviewers complained about the author’s prolific use of profanity. His new book, Never Finished, debuts on our trade paperback list at #5 and, as one online reviewer noted, “motherf***** appeared 86 times” in the text. Happily for Goggins fans who prefer less colorful language, a “clean edition” also pubbed this week, and is #14 on our trade paper list. (A clean version of Can’t Hurt Me pubbed in 2020 and has sold 94K print copies.)

NEW & NOTABLE

TOM CLANCY: RED WINTER
Mark Cameron
#8 Hardcover Fiction
In 1985 West Berlin, “newbie Foreign Service officer Ruby Keller, who’s having a snack at McDonald’s, gets caught up in a fracas that leaves her holding a floppy disc and a note from an unknown person who wants to defect to the West,” per our review. “Cameron has fun with the period references, including cell phones the size of bricks, Farrah Fawcett posters, IBM Selectrics, and dot matrix printers.”

HOW TO MEET YOUR SELF
Nicole LePera
#3 Trade Paperback
Psychologist LePera follows 2021’s How to Do the Work (305K print copies sold) with this “workbook for self-discovery,” offering exercises, journaling prompts, questionnaires, and bite-size wellness tips.