Sales Snapshot
The week’s biggest debut is A Death in Cornwall, Daniel Silva’s 24th Gabriel Allon spy thriller. It did best in the West and in the Middle Atlantic, while Elin Hilderbrand’s final Nantucket novel, Swan Song, topped the list in New England, and Freida McFadden’s The Housemaid and The Housemaid Is Watching divvied up the rest of the country.
Under Her Spell
Sarah Beth Durst has been writing books for children since the 2007 middle grade fantasy Into the Wild, and adult titles since 2014’s The Lost, an urban fantasy. The Spellshop, a cottagecore romantasy, debuts at #6 on our hardcover fiction list. “Durst packs her cozy and colorful tale full of sweet magical creatures, including unicorns, winged cats, and friendly tree sprits that manifest as bears,” according to our review, “and her diverse supporting cast exudes a near-uniform air of kindness.” In one week, the book’s print unit sales bested release-to-date sales for her last seven hardcovers combined.
NEW & NOTABLE
The Darkness Within Us
Tricia Levenseller
#4 Children's Fiction
An ambitious teenager will stop at nothing to get what she wants in YA romantasy author Levenseller’s latest. It’s a companion novel to 2020’s The Shadows Between Us, a BookTok smash that’s sold 142K print copies.
The Briar Club
Kate Quinn
#12 Hardcover Fiction
“Bestseller Quinn follows The Diamond Eye with a stellar historical mystery centered on a group of women living together in a Washington, D.C., boardinghouse,” per our starred review. The author “elegantly explores issues of race, class, and gender, and brings the paranoid atmosphere of McCarthy-era Washington to vivid life.”
