Bestseller Statshot
The gift-buying season is upon us. Sales of adult nonfiction books jumped 44% in the week ended Dec. 8, to 6.6 million units, from 4.6 million the week prior. But whereas most big sales spikes can be attributed to a blockbuster debut or two, all but two of the movers and shakers in the first week of December were books that have been out for a month or more. Here’s a ranking of the 10 nonfiction books with the biggest week-over-week increase.
| Things That Matter | Charles Krauthammer | Crown Forum | 37,174 | 7 |
| The Daniel Plan | Rick Warren | Zondervan | 17,879 | 1 |
| Killing Jesus | O’Reilly/Dugard | Holt | 16,848 | 11 |
| Guinness World Records | Guinness World Records | Guinness World Records | 16,629 | 13 |
| Humans of New York | Brandon Stanton | St. Martin’s | 16,411 | 8 |
| George Washington’s Secret Six | Brian Kilmeade | Sentinel | 14,858 | 5 |
| The Pioneer Woman Cooks: A Year of Holidays | Ree Drummond | Morrow | 10,623 | 6 |
| The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Food from My Frontier | Ree Drummond | Morrow | 9,542 | 91 |
| Jesus Calling | Sarah Young | Thomas Nelson | 9,484 | 153 |
| Miracles and Massacres | Glenn Beck | S&S/Threshold | 8,563 | 3 |
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