The Bestselling Books of the Week, According to All the Lists

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Explore leadership through the enduring words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and insights from Robert F. Smith, Founder of Vista Equity Partners. This audiobook highlights key speeches and themes like “The Beloved Community,” “Economic Justice,” and “Two Americas,” showing how King’s vision shaped Smith’s leadership journey. Narrated by Smith alongside the voices of Dr. King, Percy Bell, and Chante McCormick, this work offers powerful lessons for today’s aspiring leaders from one of history’s most influential voices.

After months of fairly stagnant bestseller lists, this week is packed with titles appearing in the round-up for the first time. We also have some bestsellers that have been out for a while, but are making a reappearance on this list.

Three of the new titles are romantasy, which is getting a big publicity push from publishers right now: Accomplice to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer, The Fallen & the Kiss of Dusk by Carissa Broadbent, and Scarred by Emily McIntire. There are also a couple of general fiction titles that are popular with book clubs: My Friends by Fredrik Backman and Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt. And the last new book here is a political memoir: Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America by Robert B. Reich.

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This list continues to lack of diversity on many levels, including being disproportionately by white authors. Some other bestsellers you should know about are The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali (Indie Bestsellers), The Man Who Died Seven Times by Yasuhiko Nishizawa and translated by Jesse Kirkwood (USA Today), and Black AF History by Michael Harriot (NYT).

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.

Accomplice to the Villain cover

Books On All Five Bestseller Lists:

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

Books On Four Bestseller Lists:

Accomplice to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer (Publishers Weekly, USA Today, NYT, Indie Bestsellers)

The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins (Publishers Weekly, USA Today, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)

Books On Three Bestseller Lists:

The Fallen & the Kiss of Dusk by Carissa Broadbent (Publishers Weekly, USA Today, NYT)

The fallen and the kiss of dusk cover

Atmosphere: A Love Story by Taylor Jenkins Reid (NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)

My Friends by Fredrik Backman (NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)

One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune (NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)

Scarred by Emily McIntire (Publishers Weekly, USA Today, NYT)

Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America by Robert B. Reich (USA Today, NYT, Indie Bestsellers)

Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt (NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)

The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk (NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)

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