#1 on the nonfiction Indie Bestseller list this week is Communion by bell hooks, which shares a title with the new JD Vance book. That’s no accident: a grassroots campaign encouraged readers to pick up the bell hooks title, and it worked. It got to the #12 bestseller spot in The New York Times and was the #1 bestseller on Bookshop.org. The publisher said sales on the title are up 1,000% since last year.
This list continues to lack diversity on many levels, including being disproportionately by white authors. Some Independent Press Bestsellers you should know about are The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese, Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, and Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian.
To get these numbers, we look at The New York Times, both Combined Print & E-Book Fiction and Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction lists; Amazon Charts, both Fiction and Nonfiction; Publishers Weekly; USA Today; and Indie Bestsellers, Fiction and Nonfiction, both Paperback and Hardcover.
Books On All Five Bestseller Lists:
Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan
Theo of Golden by Allen Levi
Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
Whistler by Ann Patchett
The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett
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Books On Four Bestseller Lists:
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (Publishers Weekly, USA Today, NYT, Indie Bestsellers)
The Deal by Elle Kennedy (Publishers Weekly, NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)
The Divorce by Freida McFadden (Publishers Weekly, USA Today, NYT, Amazon)
Books On Three Bestseller Lists:
Strangers by Belle Burden (NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)
The Land and Its People by David Sedaris (NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)
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