Bestseller Stat Shot
Ree Drummond, a blogger turned Food Network celebuchef, has become quite the powerhouse cookbook author, as well. Drummond’s latest title, The Pioneer Woman Cooks: A Year of Holidays: 140 Step-by-Step Recipes for Simple, Scrumptious Celebrations (HarperCollins), is also her latest bestselling cookbook, and it tops this week’s Hardcover Nonfiction list. Her two other cookbooks got a nice lift as well, with both seeing their print unit sales double in the week. Here are year-to-date sales of her kitchen oeuvre, which, in total, make her the single bestsellingest cookbook author in 2013.
| The Pioneer Woman Cooks: A Year of Holidays | 66,052 |
| The Pioneer Woman Cook: Food from My Frontier | 100,989 |
| The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes from an Accidental Country Girl | 59,290 |
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