Sales Snapshot
Author Colleen Hoover and her sisters launched Book Bonanza in 2018 because, according to the festival’s website, “They dreamed of an event where readers could meet their favorite authors and also raise money to help others.” This year’s program, held June 23–24, raised $250K for nonprofits, including Reach Out and Read, and drew 170-plus authors to Grapevine, Tex. Our latest charts show Hoover’s It Ends with Us on top in the Lone Star State and points north and east; Elin Hilderbrand’s The Five-Star Weekend and Bonnie Garmus’s Lessons in Chemistry dominate, respectively, the East and West Coasts.
Favorite Son
NBA point god Chris Paul lands at #5 on our hardcover nonfiction list with the memoir Sixty-One, named for the age at which his grandfather died, and the number of points Paul scored in his honor during a high school game the day after his funeral. Paul, a native of Winston-Salem, N.C., had the #1 book in that designative market area, and also led the list in Phoenix, Ariz., where he spent three seasons with the Suns before his recent trade to the Washington Wizards.
New & Notable
ZERO DAYS
Ruth Ware
#3 Hardcover Fiction,
#8 overall
“This too-familiar thriller from Ware centers on a woman devastated by her husband’s murder and her emergence as the primary suspect,” according to our review. “Admirers of the author’s typically fresh takes on thriller staples will hope for a return to form next time.”
THE ONLY ONE LEFT
Riley Sager
#5 Hardcover Fiction
“Sager again creatively toys with thriller mainstays in this gothic riff on the sinister caretaker trope,” per our review. He offers “his usual array of jaw-dropping twists, which startle despite being fairly clued. Fans of Daphne du Maurier will enjoy this superior nail-biter.”
