Makeover Challenge
Three popular books return to our lists in deluxe hardcover formats.
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid pubbed in 2017 and has sold 60K copies of the original hardcover edition and 3.2 million copies of the trade paperback edition. The new deluxe hardcover lands on our hardcover fiction list at #11.
Travis Baldree’s 2022 cozy fantasy Legends & Lattes has sold 258K trade paper copies; the 2023 follow-up, Bookshops & Bonedust, has sold 133K trade paper copies. The books make their hardcover debuts in deluxe editions at #12 and #15, respectively.
Courting Readers
The romantasy Throne of Secrets by Kerri Maniscalco is the #6 book in the country. The “alluring ‘Cinderella’ retelling with an enemies-to-lovers twist,” per our starred review, follows the first installment of the Prince of Sin series, 2023’s Throne of the Fallen. First-week print unit sales have ascended since book one.
Second Helping
Last week, Authors Equity, a venture from industry veterans Madeline McIntosh, Nina von Moltke, and Don Weisberg, had its first bestseller in Seth Godin’s This Is Strategy, which debuted at #9 on our trade paperback list. This week, Don’t Believe Everything You Think lands at #15 on our hardcover nonfiction list. Joseph Nguyen self-published the self-help title in 2022; it’s since sold 90K print copies, including more than 3,200 this week. The Authors Equity release is an expanded edition, with new chapters addressing reader questions and feedback, and more.
NEW & NOTABLE
The Grey Wolf
Louise Penny
#1 Hardcover Fiction, #2 overall
The 19th outing for Chief Insp. Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec “is one of the series’ best,” per our starred review. “Penny pulls off the narrative’s uncharacteristically epic scope without a hitch, swapping fair-play puzzles for pulse-pounding cliffhangers without sacrificing intimate character moments.”
Don’t Let the Forest In
CG Drews
#10 Children’s Fiction
In this YA novel of psychological horror, two boys’ nightmares come to life—a premise that seems destined to long outlast the book’s Halloween season pub date.
