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BESTSELLERS AUGUST 14–AUGUST 20, 2017
BY CAROLYN JURIS
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Favors
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TOP 10
1 Wonder R.J. Palacio Knopf 25,464
2 The Store Patterson/DiLallo Little, Brown 23,366
3 Seeing Red Sandra Brown Grand Central 22,621
4 Two by Two Nicholas Sparks Grand Central 20,343
5 Milk and Honey Rupi Kaur Andrews McMeel 19,186
6 The Woman in Cabin 10 Ruth Ware Scout 18,071
7 What Do You Do With a Problem? Kobi Yamada Compendium 17,333
8 The Whistler John Grisham Dell 16,979
9 The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls Scribner 16,405
10 The Award Danielle Steel Dell 14,564
THIS WEEK
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NEW & NOTABLE
HAIL TO THE CHIN
Bruce Campbell
#9 Hardcover
Nonfiction
The star of the Evil
Dead franchise and
author of books
including 2001’s
If Chins Could Kill
(164K print copies
sold) recently described his dichotomous
personality to PW: “I play tough guys, but I
also have lavender on my property and I
think it smells good.”
A STRANGER IN
THE HOUSE
Shari Lapena
#12 Hardcover Fiction
Lapena follows her
debut, The Couple
Next Door (currently
#5 on our Trade Paperback list), with another
domestic thriller, which
our review called “well-plotted if workmanlike,” with “plentiful plot twists” making for
“a diverting page-turner.”
MOVIE WATCH
The movie tie-in edition of
The Mountain Between Us,
the 2011 romance-disaster
novel by Charles Martin,
debuts at #15 on our Mass
Market list. The film stars
Idris Elba and Kate Winslet
as survivors of a plane crash
in Utah’s Uinta Mountains.
After its premiere at the
Toronto International Film
Festival on September 9, the
movie will open in the U.S. October 6.
Stella Parks, a James Beard
Award–nominated writer for
Serious Eats, debuts at #8 on our
Hardcover Nonfiction list with
her first cookbook, Brave Tart.
Our starred review praised
Parks’s “ingenuity and whim-sy,” evident in her homemade
recreations of American supermarket treats such as Twinkies
and Oreo cookies. “Judge them
however you want, but they’re
a valid and deeply ingrained
part of our culture and our culinary heritage,” Parks recently
told PW. “I wanted to reclaim
those things.”
First Week Print Unit Sales for the Broken Earth Series
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N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy concludes with The Stone Sky, which debuts at #11
on our Trade Paperback list. The first and second books in the series won the Hugo Award
for Best Novel in 2016 and 2017, with the second award coming just days before the new
book pubbed. The accolades, which were both well-timed and well-deserved (PW starred
all three books) helped the third book garner the best opening-week sales of the trilogy.
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