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One book that’s new to the list this week reveals a few different things happening under the surface of the bestseller lists: Little Blue Truck’s Valentine. Firstly, it nods to the fact that these bestseller lists have several weeks of delay.
The other important aspect of these lists we often forget is that they usually don’t acknowledge children’s books, which are a big portion of the book market, but are usually kept on their own lists.
Little Blue Truck’s Valentine is the only children’s book that was on three bestseller lists this week, but if you look at just the Publishers Weekly list, you’ll see four of the top ten are Valentine’s Day kids’ books.
This list continues to lack of diversity on many levels, including being disproportionately by white authors. Some other bestsellers you should know about are The Elsewhere Express by Samantha Sotto Yambao (Indie Bestsellers), Black AF History by Michael Harriot (NYT), One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad (Indie Bestsellers).
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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:
Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid
Theo of Golden by Allen Levi
Books On Four Bestseller Lists:
Dear Debbie by Freida McFadden (Publishers Weekly, NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)
The Correspondent by Virginia Evans (USA Today, NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)
Books On Three Bestseller Lists:
Nobody’s Girl by Virginia Roberts Giuffre (NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (Publishers Weekly, NYT, Indie Bestsellers)
Operation Bounce House by Matt Dinniman (USA Today, NYT, Indie Bestsellers)
Little Blue Truck’s Valentine written by Alice Schertle and illustrated by Jill McElmurry (Publishers Weekly, USA Today, Indie Bestsellers)
Strangers by Belle Burden (NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)
The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins (Publishers Weekly, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)
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