The reigning #1 bestseller on both the Publishers Weekly and USA Today lists is Heartstopper Volume 6, but you won’t find it in this roundup, because most outlets break both YA and graphic novels out into their own lists. I’m still mourning the end of Heartstopper, between this final book and the movie. In fact, I’m listening to the movie soundtrack while writing this post—I can’t recommend the series highly enough, both for the queer joy and the depiction of mental health struggles.
The only new book appearing here for the first time is The Exquisite Torment of Loving Your Enemy by Brigitte Knightley, the sequel to The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy. The series is inspired by a Harry Potter fanfic, and personally, I’m not interested in anything that helps keep that IP alive, considering that the creator uses the money from it to fund anti-trans organizations.
Speaking of bigotry and publishing, this list continues to lack diversity on many levels, including being disproportionately by white authors. Some other bestsellers you should know about are The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson (NYT), Caste by Isabel Wilkerson (Amazon), Communion: The Female Search for Love by bell hooks (Indie Bestsellers), and The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t a Guy at All, Vol. 1 by Sumiko Arai (Independent Press Bestsellers)
I’ve written before about how a grassroots campaign put Communion by bell hooks on the bestseller lists in the wake of JD Vance’s new book by the same name, so I won’t reiterate it here. I’m interested to see that two Isabel Wilkerson backlist books have popped up on bestseller lists recently—maybe they got recommended during discussions of the 250th anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence. I do know why The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t a Guy at All, Vol. 1 is getting press: we recently got a teaser trailer for the upcoming anime adaptation, and it looks great. I really enjoy this manga series, which is so popular in F/F comics spaces that has transcended its name and often is just called “the green yuri.”
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. Titles appearing on the list for the first time are bolded.
Books On All Five Bestseller Lists:
Theo of Golden by Allen Levi
Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan
Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
Books On Four Bestseller Lists:
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (Publishers Weekly, USA Today, NYT, Indie Bestsellers)
Whistler by Ann Patchett (USA Today, NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)
The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett (Publishers Weekly, NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)
Books On Three Bestseller Lists:
Strangers by Belle Burden (NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)
The Deal by Elle Kennedy (NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)
The Exquisite Torment of Loving Your Enemy by Brigitte Knightley (Publishers Weekly, NYT, Indie Bestsellers)
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