Idol Musings
In the first two days that Taylor Swift’s self-published, Target-exclusive The Eras Tour Book was on sale, fans snapped up more than 814K print copies, meaning that the book moved more units than the next 30 titles combined. Because BookScan considers books sold by a single retailer ineligible to chart, the title does not appear on our lists. But other tales of Taylor do, including Taylor Swift: The Stories Behind the Songs by music journalist Annie Zaleski, which pubbed in September and returns to our hardcover nonfiction list at #10, with its best weekly sales since its release.
On the Double
Richard Paul Evans is known for his holiday-themed novels with words like noel and mistletoe in the title. His latest, Christmas in Bethel, debuts at #7 on our hardcover fiction list. On the children’s side, his books include the YA action-adventure series Michael Vey, about a superpowered teenager. He concludes that run with book #10, The Colony, which debuts at #16 on our children’s fiction list.
Luxe Accommodations
Harley Laroux self-published the dark paranormal romance Her Soul to Take in 2021. Kensington’s trade paperback edition, released in February 2024, has sold 195K print copies. The new deluxe edition lands at #10 on our hardcover fiction list. Jeneva Rose’s The Perfect Marriage, which the U.K.’s Bloodhound Books published in 2020, has sold 741K print copies in trade paperback. Blackstone’s collector’s edition, out this week, debuts at #13 on our hardcover fiction list.
NEW & NOTABLE
The House of Cross
James Patterson
#1 Hardcover Fiction, #6 overall
The latest outing for Patterson’s forensic psychologist and FBI alum arrives a couple of weeks after the premiere of the Amazon Prime series Cross. In this installment, as a U.S. president-elect plans her inauguration, Alex Cross hunts a killer who’s targeting Supreme Court candidates.
Under His Wings
Emily Compagno
#2 Hardcover Nonfiction
The Fox News host collects first-person combat stories from WWI through the present that depict, per the book’s subtitle, “how faith on the front lines has protected American troops.”
