What Can Brown Do For You?

Brené Brown has the #1 book in the country with Atlas of the Heart, in which the clinical social worker, academic, podcaster, and Oprah fave delves into emotional intelligence. Brown’s previous books have together sold almost four million print copies, and each, including the latest, has garnered more first-week attention than the last.

Expansive Sales

The writing duo known as James S.A. Corey lands at #9 on our hardcover fiction list with Leviathan Falls, which our starred review called “their spectacular ninth and final Expanse space opera.” Book four, Cibola Burn, was the first hardcover release in the series, and book six, Babylon’s Ashes, was the first to pub after the 2015 TV series premiere. The new book brings the saga to a close, and to a first-week sales pinnacle.

Novel Territory

Hervé Le Tellier’s Prix Goncourt winner The Anomaly, trans. from the French by Adriana Hunter, debuts at #14 on our trade paperback list in its second week on sale. It’s “an extraordinary mix of existential thriller and speculative fiction,” per our starred review, and one of PW’s best books of 2021. “Questions of philosophy, mathematics, and astrophysics bend this novel far from the typical mold, and Le Tellier’s characters must confront the deepest questions of existence. This thought-provoking literary work deserves a wide readership.”

NEW & NOTABLE

WISH YOU WERE HERE
Jodi Picoult
#2 Hardcover Fiction, #8 overall
“Picoult’s beguiling page-turner revisits the premise of two alternate worlds, as explored in 2020’s The Book of Two Ways, this time with the Covid-19 pandemic as a backdrop,” according to our review. “Even the author’s fans will find some of this wanting,” the review continued, but “as always, Picoult is eminently readable.”

ALL ABOUT ME!
Mel Brooks
#14 Hardcover Nonfiction
Brooks takes readers from his Brooklyn childhood to the heights of Hollywood fame, “gleefully doling out punch lines along the way,” our starred review said. “Studded with snickering asides and rapid-fire jokes, Brooks’s account of making it in show biz is just as sidesplitting as his movies.”