The Bestselling Books of the Week, According to All the Lists
โ Books ๐ 2026-02-19 ๐ค surdeus ๐๏ธ 4It doesnโt happen often, but this week, the bestseller lists are mostly in agreement about the biggest books of the moment. Four books made it onto all five bestseller lists.
The only book appearing here for the first time is Stolen in Death by J. D. Robb (aka Nora Roberts). Itโs the latest in her thriller series In Death, which is a stunning 62 books longโso far. The first in the series, Naked in Death, came out in 1995.
This list continues to lack of diversity on many levels, including being disproportionately by white authors. Some Indie Bestsellers you should know about are The Elsewhere Express by Samantha Sotto Yambao, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters by Priya Parker, and One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad.
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
Dear Debbie by Freida McFadden
Theo of Golden by Allen Levi
The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
Books On Four Bestseller Lists:
The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins (Publishers Weekly, USA Today, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)
Books On Three Bestseller Lists:
The Long Game by Rachel Reid (USA Today, NYT, Indie Bestsellers)
Stolen in Death by J. D. Robb (Publishers Weekly, USA Today, NYT)
Strangers by Belle Burden (NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)
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