Advance Team
In the week after J.D. Vance was named the Republican vice-presidential candidate, more copies of the 2018 trade paperback edition of his Hillbilly Elegy were sold than in the previous 234 weeks combined. Put another way, that edition’s print unit sales for the week were greater than its print unit sales for an entire year—any year. No matter how you look at it, it’s the bestselling book in the U.S. by a country mile.
Soul Searching
Deborah Harkness has the #7 book in the country with The Black Bird Oracle, book five in her All Souls series. First-week interest flagged a bit after the initial trilogy but is now on the upswing.
New to the Catalog
The Warriors middle grade series, set among competing clans of feral felines and written by various authors under the pseudonym Erin Hunter, is a fantasy juggernaut: eight main story arcs of six books each plus several standalones and manga mini arcs, with sales topping 15 million print units. This week, the first Warriors full-color graphic novel adaptation, The Prophesies Begin, debuts at #4 on our children’s fiction list. Adapted and illustrated by Natalie Riess and Sara Goetter, it covers the first two books, Into the Wild and Fire and Ice.
NEW & NOTABLE
The Au Pair Affair
Tessa Bailey
#5 Trade Paperback
Fans of hockey HEAs rejoice: “Bailey brings her signature blend of heat and sweet to her delightful second Big Shots romance,” according to our review. The author “creates flawed but endearing characters that readers will fall head over heels for.”
The Bright Sword
Lev Grossman
#15 Hardcover Fiction
Grossman, in his first novel for adults since concluding his Magicians trilogy in 2014, “turns his hand to Arthurian legends, delivering a breathtaking tale that honors past iterations while producing something entirely unexpected,” per our starred review.
