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This Week's Bestsellers: September 18, 2023
BookTok fave Lucy Score wins points for 'Things We Left Behind,' the #2 book in the country. Plus, new fiction and nonfiction with starred 'PW' reviews hit the list, and new cookbook titles get right to the point.
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Bookstore Sales Dipped 1.3% in July
Bookstore sales fell 1.3% in July, slipping from $595 million last year to $587 million in 2023, according to preliminary estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau.
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Print Book Sales Improved Last Week, But Still Fell 4%
Unit sales for print books had their best weekly performance since mid-June, in part thanks to Stephen King, but still fell 4% from a year ago. Once again, sales were down in all categories.
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Indigo Loses CEO, Reports Sales Drop, Relaunches Website
Peter Ruis has resigned as CEO of Indigo Books & Music, a position he held for a year. The news comes after the retirement of founder Heather Reisman, a boardroom shake-up, and a destructive cyber attack that impacted sales.
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Book Club Picks for September 2023
Barnes & Noble and 'Good Morning America' pick Angie Kim's 'Happiness Falls,' Reese Witherspoon spotlights Nina Simon's 'Mother-Daughter Murder Night,' and more of this month's selections by the nation's biggest book clubs.
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Two New Histories of Publishing
Memoirs by former publishing executives have become something of a cottage industry this year, with two new books by John Sargent and Charles Scribner III offering accounts of the ongoing evolution of the business.
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This Week's Bestsellers: September 11, 2023
The #1 book in the country is 'The Brothers Hawthorne,' fourth in the Inheritance Games series by Jennifer Lynn Barnes. #2, 'Assistant to the Villain,' grew out of author Hannah Nicole Maehrer’s TikTok skits, and another BookTok favorite, Freida McFadden, debuts at #6 in the country with 'The Coworker.'
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Print Book Sales Fell Again Last Week
Unit sales of print books fell 7.9% last week from the comparable week in 2022 at outlets that report to Circana BookScan. Sales were down in all categories.
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Powell's Books Employees Walked Out on Labor Day
The union representing employees at Powell's Books in Portland, Ore., organized a one-day strike on Monday to protest stalled contract negotiations with management.
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This Week's Bestsellers: September 4, 2023
TikTok phenom Mercury Stardust has the #1 book in the country with the home maintenance manual 'Safe and Sound.' Plus Adalyn Grace's YA fantasy 'Foxglove' takes the #1 spot on our children's fiction list, and Max Miller's 'Tasting History' returns to our hardcover nonfiction list.
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Judge Blocks Texas Book Ban Law
Judge Alan D. Albright said that he will grant a motion for a preliminary injunction to block Texas's controversial book ban law, which was due to take effect on September 1.
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Losing Streak for Print Book Sales Drags On
With the adult fiction and nonfiction categories posting declines of 9% and 6%, respectively, unit sales of print books fell 6.1% last week from the comparable week in 2022 at outlets that report to Circana BookScan.
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Unionized Staff at Massachusetts B&N Stage Walkout
The unionized employees of the Barnes & Noble location in Hadley, Mass., staged a walkout on August 25 to highlight concerns over understaffing after filing an Unfair Labor Practice complaint.
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Booksellers Predict the Big Books of Fall 2023
Every fall season, bookseller enthusiasm builds for certain subjects, and novels—notably high-stakes historical fiction and immersive work in translation—are extra hot for 2023.
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The New Indie Books That Booksellers Want You to Read
Independent booksellers from across the country highlight eight independently published books they're excited to sell this fall.
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This Week's Bestsellers: August 28, 2023
Regional favorites include a sporty self-help title and back-to-school stalwarts. Plus 'Rabbit Hutch' author Tess Gunty shows 'CBS Sunday Morning' viewers around her hometown.
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Author Events in the Postpandemic Era
In-person author events have returned as the pandemic has eased, but publishers have still scaled back author tours and are requiring longer lead times for booking, resulting in a different kind of thinking about bookstore programming.
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Nothing Was Pretty About Print Book Sales Last Week
The release of the second season of 'The Summer I Turned Pretty' on Amazon Prime gave a small boost to the Jenny Han novels that the series is based on last week, but it wasn't enough to stop a 7.1% drop in sales.
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BookTok Helped Book Sales Soar. How Long Will That Last?
In July, for the first month ever, sales from the roughly 180 BookTok authors BookScan follows fell from the prior year.
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