BESTSELLERS OCTOBER 16–22, 2017
As reports of sexual harassment and violence proliferate
in mainstream and social media, a pair of books
addressing the topics debut in hardcover nonfiction.
In the essay collection We’re Going to Need More
Wine, #16, Gabrielle Union opens up about her rape
at gunpoint at age 19 and the challenges she’s faced as
a black woman in Hollywood. She also covers more
lighthearted topics, our review
noted, calling the book “amusing and heartbreaking”
and praising Union’s “intimate voice.”
In Be Fierce, #17, former Fox News anchor Gretchen
Carlson shares several women’s experiences with workplace
harassment, plus resources and advice for handling
such incidents. “Carlson’s inclusion of her own stories is
courageous,” our review said, “and her commitment to
making sexual harassment a nonpartisan issue is admirable.”
BY CAROLYN JURIS
Signed, Sealed, Delivered
Books by and about Navy SEALS are a subgenre spanning diverse categories
including combat memoirs, romance novels, and motivational titles. Among
the latter, William McRaven’s
Make Your Bed is a recent hit,
selling 354K print units since
its April publication. On our
current list, the #9 book in the
country overall is Discipline
Equals Freedom by Jocko
Willinck, whose previous titles
include a business leadership
book coauthored by a fellow
retired SEAL and a middle
grade novel about self-reliance.
NEW & NOTABLE
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Walter Isaacson
#1 Hardcover Nonfiction,
#2 overall
In a work of “impressive”
scholarship, our starred
review said, the author
shows “how da Vinci’s
inquisitiveness set him apart from his
contemporaries but frequently distracted him
from completing commissions or projects.”
UNCOMMON TYPE
Tom Hanks
#3 Hardcover Fiction
Stories in the actor’s debut
collection “sometimes lead to
pat, happy endings, but not
always,” our review said, and
they “generally charm.”
LA BELLE SAUVAGE
Philip Pullman
#4 Children’s Frontlist Fiction
The long-awaited launch title in
the Book of Dust, a companion
trilogy to Pullman’s acclaimed
His Dark Materials books,
benefits from new characters
who, our starred review said, “are as lively and
memorable as their predecessors.”
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#Them Too MOVIE WATCH In its second week on sale,
the tie-in edition to the new
adaptation of Murder on the
Orient Express by Agatha Christie
debuts at #14 in trade paper.
Kenneth Branagh directs and
plays the role of detective Hercule
Poirot; the rest of the cast includes
Penélope Cruz, Willem Dafoe,
Judi Dench, Johnny
Depp, Leslie Odom
Jr., and Daisy
Ridley. Conventional
trade paperback
and mass market
editions, both from
2011, also enjoyed
a bump.
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127%
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TOP 10
1 Origin Dan Brown Doubleday 58,540
2 Leonardo da Vinci Walter Isaacson Simon & Schuster 52,169
3 Capital Gaines Chip Gaines W 42,646
4 The Sun and Her Flowers Rupi Kaur Andrews McMeel 39,065
5 Turtles All the Way Down John Green Dutton 36,216
6 The Wisdom of Sundays Oprah Winfrey Flatiron 34,306
7 Tales From a Not-So-Secret... (Dork Diaries #12) Rachel Renée Russell Aladdin 32,074
8 Deep Freeze John Sandford Putnam 30,985
9 Discipline Equals Freedom Jocko Willink St. Martin’s 26,290
10 Turtles All the Way Down (signed ed.) John Green Dutton 24,382
THIS WEEK
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2015
9,935
2017
12,140
2017
26,290
First-Week Print Unit Sales for
Jocko Willinck
ALL UNIT SALES PER NIELSEN BOOKSCAN EXCEPT WHERE NOTED