Jesse’s Girl
The movie adaptation of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, a 2012 YA novel by first-time author Jesse Andrews, premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, nabbing a Grand Jury Prize and an Audience Award; Andrews also wrote the screenplay. In advance of the film’s June 12 release, a revised paperback edition of the book has been building up steam (see graph). This week, it’s at #8 in Children’s Frontlist Fiction, with 6,849 print units sold. A movie tie-in version will pub May 26.
Another YA adaptation of note is John Green’s Paper Towns, hitting theaters July 24. The tie-in edition debuts at #2 in Children’s Frontlist Fiction, with 12K print units sold. And the 2011 trade paper edition sold more than twice that this week and is the #3 book overall.
In the Pink
Don’t put those crayons away just yet: coloring books debut on three of our lists this week. Johanna Basford’s Secret Garden (2013), which is widely credited with popularizing the trend among adults, was in high demand and hard to find recently. After selling just 159 units last week, this week it’s at #10 on our Children’s Picture Book list, with 6,247 units sold.
The newly released Color Therapy, by Cindy Wilde, Laura-Kate Chapman, and Richard Merritt, lands at #23 on our Hardcover Nonfiction list, with 4,544 units sold.
And the Trade Paperback list has two coloring book debuts: Stress Relieving Patterns (April), at #15 with 5,237 units, and Color Me Calm, by Lacy Mucklow, illus. by Angela Porter (2014), at #25 with 3,697 units sold.
Other Notable Debuts
Seveneves
by Neal Stephenson
#5 Hardcover Fiction
13,788 units
Humanity fights to survive the cataclysmic fallout from the moon’s destruction, in a book that our starred review calls “deceptively complex” and “remarkable.”
Maximum Ride Forever
by James Patterson
#1 Children’s Frontlist Fiction
12,520 units
Book eight in the Maximum Ride SF-thriller series, 2012’s Nevermore, was billed as “the final chapter”; the new book is being touted as “the ninth and ultimate.”
In Real Life
by Joey Graceffa
#3 Trade Paperback
14,141 units
This memoir by Graceffa, YouTube host and former contestant on The Amazing Race, also lands at #1 on the Apple iBooks Bio & Autobio list.
Elon Musk
by Ashlee Vance
#9 Hardcover Nonfiction
9,493 units
This profile of the PayPal cofounder and billionaire entrepreneur behind SpaceX and Tesla Motors is also at #2 on the Apple iBooks Bio & Autobio list.
Correction: An earlier version of this article referred incorrectly to the author of In Real Life. His name is Joey Graceffa.
Top 10 Overall
Rank | Title | Author | Imprint | Units |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Oh, the Places You’ll Go! | Dr. Seuss | Random | 42,503 |
2 | The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up | Marie Kondo | Ten Speed | 32,654 |
3 | Paper Towns | John Green | Penguin/Speak | 28,151 |
4 | The Wright Brothers | David McCullough | Simon & Schuster | 27,651 |
5 | The Girl on the Train | Paula Hawkins | Riverhead | 27,283 |
6 | 14th Deadly Sin | Patterson/Paetro | Little, Brown | 23,664 |
7 | Personal | Lee Child | Dell | 22,101 |
8 | All the Light We Cannot See | Anthony Doerr | Scribner | 21,806 |
9 | American Sniper (movie tie-in) | Chris Kyle | Morrow | 18,326 |
10 | Memory Man | David Baldacci | Grand Central | 15,181 |