Sales Snapshot
The #1 and #2 books in the country swapped positions this week, with Alex Hirsch’s The Book of Bill, based on the Gravity Falls animated TV series, taking the top spot on the list and across several regions. The 2018 trade paperback edition of J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy, which includes a new afterword, stepback, and supplemental materials, drops to #2, and is joined, at #3, by the book’s 2016 trade paperback edition. Together, their print unit sales exceed those of the #1 title.
In Clubland
New month, new book club picks, starting with the Barnes & Noble Book Club and Read with Jenna selection, The Wedding People byAlison Espach. It’s “a sparkling and slightly macabre novel of a 30-something woman finding a new lease on life,” according to our review, and #4 on our hardcover fiction list. Reese’s Book Club tapped Slow Dance by Rainbow Rowell, which lands at #14 on our hardcover fiction list. Rowell, best known for her YA fiction, “serves up a powerful and poignant tale of first love for adult romance readers,” per our review.
NEW & NOTABLE
The Grandest Game
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#1 Children's Fiction
Barnes returns to the world of her Inheritance Games saga, a BookTok favorite, with this spin-off series launch. It’s a “fiendishly clever thriller,” according to our review. “Baffling brain-teasers, flagrant flirtation, and witty repartee earn the sustained interest of readers old and new.”
All in the Family
Fred C. Trump
#1 Hardcover Nonfiction
“In this somber debut memoir,” per our review, “Trump, the nephew of former president and current Republican nominee Donald Trump, offers a behind-the-scenes look at the Trump family tree—and the cold machinations that left him and his sister Mary, author of Too Much and Never Enough, largely disinherited.”
