Sales Snapshot
Beach-read queen Elin Hilderbrand has the #1 book in the country with the “stunning” (per our starred review) The Five-Star Weekend. At #2, Bonnie Garmus’s Lessons in Chemistry, a brisk seller and book club favorite since it pubbed in 2022, got a boost after the author’s June 11 appearance on CBS’s Sunday Morning. Rounding out the top three, Emily Henry has found her Happy Place, sitting comfortably in the top 4 since the book’s April release.
The Look of Love
STEMinist romance author Ali Hazelwood has the #8 book in the country with Love, Theoretically. It sold 26K copies in trade paperback and another 15K in hardcover, landing it at #5 on that list. It’s the first of her three novels to get a simultaneous hardcover and trade paper release; January’s Loathe to Love You, a novella collection, has sold about 3K hardcover copies since it pubbed, and another 84K in trade paper.
NEW & NOTABLE
KNIFE DROP
Nick DiGiovanni
#1 Hardcover Nonfiction
In what our review called an “accessible debut,” MasterChef finalist DiGiovanni’s “clear passion for food will inspire home cooks of all levels to embark on their own culinary adventures.” QR codes redirecting readers to DiGiovanni’s instructional videos help things along.
THE IN-BETWEEN
Hadley Vlahos
#2 Hardcover Nonfiction
“Vlahos recounts her six-year stint as a hospice nurse in her often-moving debut memoir,” according to our review. “Nonreligious readers may not glean much from this account, which veers into firmly faith-based territory, but Vlahos is a pleasant and earnest guide to the dying process. Readers anxious about their loved ones’ end-of-life experiences will find comfort here.”
