There are no new titles on the bestseller roundup this week, but there is a difference worth noting: not only is Theo of Golden on all five of the biggest bestseller lists, but it’s #1 on every one of them. This kind of consensus is rare, and it’s even more surprising given that it came out in 2025.

This list continues to lack diversity on many levels, including being disproportionately by white authors. Some Independent Press Bestsellers you should know about are The Clock House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji and translated by Ho-Ling Wong, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer, and Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature by Patricia
Ononiwu Kaishian.

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:

Theo of Golden by Allen Levi

Whistler by Ann Patchett

The Deal by Elle Kennedy

Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke

The Divorce by Freida McFadden

Books On Four Bestseller Lists:

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (Publishers Weekly, USA Today, NYT, Indie Bestsellers)

Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman (USA Today, NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)

The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett (USA Today, NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)

Books On Three Bestseller Lists:

Strangers by Belle Burden (NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)

The Land and Its People by David Sedaris (NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)

The Mistake by Elle Kennedy (Publishers Weekly, NYT, Amazon)

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