Rankings reflect sales for the week ended April 29, which were reported on a confidential basis by vendors offering a wide range of general interest titles. Every week, thousands of diverse selling locations report their actual sales on hundreds of thousands of individual titles. The panel of reporting retailers is comprehensive and reflects sales in stores of all sizes and demographics across the United States.
An asterisk (*) indicates that a book’s sales were barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A (b) indicates that some bookstores reported receiving bulk orders.
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FICTION
1. HAPPY PLACE, by Emily Henry. (Berkley) A former couple pretend to be together for the sake of their friends during their annual getaway in Maine.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
2. SIMPLY LIES, by David Baldacci. (Grand Central) A former detective becomes the prime suspect in a murder case involving a man with mob ties who was in witness protection.
LAST WEEK: 1
WEEKS ON LIST: 2
3. LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY, by Bonnie Garmus. (Doubleday) A scientist and single mother living in California in the 1960s becomes a star on a TV cooking show.
LAST WEEK: 2
WEEKS ON LIST: 51
4. IN THE LIVES OF PUPPETS, by T.J. Klune. (Tor) When an unfamiliar android turns up, the security of a family consisting of a human and three robots is imperiled.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
5. SMALL MERCIES, by Dennis Lehane. (Harper) As desegregation comes to Boston’s public schools, a young Black man is found dead and a woman searches for her missing daughter.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
6. HELLO BEAUTIFUL, by Ann Napolitano. (Dial) In this homage to Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women,” a young man’s dark past resurfaces as he gets to know the family of his college sweetheart.
LAST WEEK: 3
WEEKS ON LIST: 7
7. TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, by Gabrielle Zevin. (Knopf) Two friends find their partnership challenged in the world of video game design.
LAST WEEK: 6
WEEKS ON LIST: 31
8. HANG THE MOON, by Jeannette Walls. (Scribner) Nine years after being cast out, a young woman returns to reclaim her place in her family and comes into her own as a bootlegger.
LAST WEEK: 4
WEEKS ON LIST: 5
9. THE WAY OF THE BEAR, by Anne Hillerman. (Harper) The eighth book in the Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito series. Puzzling deaths occur near Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
10. IT ENDS WITH US, by Colleen Hoover. (Atria) A battered wife raised in a violent home attempts to halt the cycle of abuse.
LAST WEEK: 8
WEEKS ON LIST: 2
11. DARK ANGEL, by John Sandford. (Putnam) The second book in the Letty Davenport series. Letty takes an undercover assignment that puts her in harm’s way with a group of hackers.
LAST WEEK: 5
WEEKS ON LIST: 3
12. ROMANTIC COMEDY, by Curtis Sittenfeld. (Random House) A late-night show’s sketch writer may become involved with a pop music sensation who is a guest host.
LAST WEEK: 11
WEEKS ON LIST: 4
13. REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES, by Shelby Van Pelt. (Ecco) A widow working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium is aided in solving a mystery by a giant Pacific octopus living there.
LAST WEEK: 15
WEEKS ON LIST: 15
14. YOU SHOULDN’T HAVE COME HERE, by Jeneva Rose. (Blackstone) A blossoming romance between a New Yorker and a rancher morphs into something potentially destructive.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
15. NIGHT ANGEL NEMESIS, by Brent Weeks. (Orbit) The High King Logan Gyre asks Kylar Stern to protect his kingdom and twin sons.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
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NONFICTION
1. THE WAGER, by David Grann. (Doubleday) The survivors of a shipwrecked British vessel on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain have different accounts of events.
LAST WEEK: 1
WEEKS ON LIST: 2
2. THE LIGHT WE CARRY, by Michelle Obama. (Crown) The former first lady shares personal stories and the tools she uses to deal with difficult situations.
LAST WEEK: 6
WEEKS ON LIST: 24
3. OUTLIVE, by Peter Attia with Bill Gifford. (Harmony) A look at recent scientific research on aging and longevity.
LAST WEEK: 2
WEEKS ON LIST: 5
4. GREENLIGHTS, by Matthew McConaughey. (Crown) The Academy Award-winning actor shares snippets from the diaries he kept over 35 years.
LAST WEEK: 8
WEEKS ON LIST: 91
5. DON’T TELL ANYBODY THE SECRETS I TOLD YOU, by Lucinda Williams. (Crown) The Grammy Award-winning musician shares the hardships that informed her music.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
6. YOU CAN’T JOKE ABOUT THAT, by Kat Timpf. (Broadside) The co-host of “Gutfeld!” and Fox News contributor gives her take on free speech and comedy. (b)
LAST WEEK: 3
WEEKS ON LIST: 2
7. I’M GLAD MY MOM DIED, by Jennette McCurdy. (Simon & Schuster) The actor and filmmaker describes her eating disorders and difficult relationship with her mother.
LAST WEEK: 4
WEEKS ON LIST: 38
8. SPARE, by Prince Harry. (Random House) The Duke of Sussex details his struggles with the royal family, loss of his mother, service in the British army and marriage to Meghan Markle.
LAST WEEK: 5
WEEKS ON LIST: 16
9. HONEY, BABY, MINE, by Laura Dern and Diane Ladd. (Grand Central) Conversations on personal subjects from a mother and daughter who are also award-winning actors.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
10. POVERTY, BY AMERICA, by Matthew Desmond. (Crown) The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Evicted” examines ways in which affluent Americans keep poor people poor.
LAST WEEK: 7
WEEKS ON LIST: 6
11. PROJECT 562, by Matika Wilbur. (Ten Speed) Photographs and interviews in celebration of the federally recognized Native American Tribal Nations.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
12. A FEVER IN THE HEARTLAND, by Timothy Egan. (Viking) The Pulitzer- and National Book Award-winning author details the Ku Klux Klan’s rise to the height of its power in the 1920s and how one brutalized woman’s testimony diminished it.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 3
13. FAT TALK, by Virginia Sole-Smith. (Holt) Ways in which diet culture and body biases in our families, schools and other parts of society may impact children.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 1
14. YOU COULD MAKE THIS PLACE BEAUTIFUL, by Maggie Smith. (Atria/One Signal) The poet explores her love for her children and commitment to herself after the end of her marriage.
Weekend Scoop
LAST WEEK: 10
WEEKS ON LIST: 3
15. WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU?, by Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey. (Flatiron) An approach to dealing with trauma that shifts an essential question used to investigate it.
LAST WEEK: —
WEEKS ON LIST: 51
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