The first bestseller round up of November has hit the ground running: there are so many books appearing on these lists for the first time! The biggest title, and the one on every bestseller list, is Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice, a memoir by the late Virginia Roberts Giuffre about her experience speaking up as a victim of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

Another big bestseller of the moment in a completely different genre is the 20th volume of Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Children’s books are usually on their own lists, which is why they rarely appear here, but they often outperform adult bestsellers by an order of magnitude, and the Wimpy Kid books are a great example of that.

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 Best American Short Stories 2025 edited by Celeste Ng, Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar, and Finding My Way: A Memoir by Malala Yousafzai.

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:

Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice by Virginia Roberts Giuffre

Books On Four Bestseller Lists:

The Widow by John Grisham (Publishers Weekly, USA Today, NYT, Indie Bestsellers)

The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown (Publishers Weekly, NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)

1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History—And How It Shattered a Nation by Andrew Ross Sorkin (Publishers Weekly, NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)

Books On Three Bestseller Lists:

Partypooper (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #20) by Jeff Kinney (Publishers Weekly, USA Today, Amazon)

The Proving Ground: A Lincoln Lawyer Novel by Michael Connelly (Publishers Weekly, USA Today, NYT)

The Things Gods Break by Abigail Owen (Publishers Weekly, USA Today, NYT)

Remain by Nicholas Sparks with M. Night Shyamalan (Publishers Weekly, NYT, Indie Bestsellers)

Good Spirits by B.K. Borison (USA Today, NYT, Indie Bestsellers)

Mate by Ali Hazelwood (NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)

Alchemised by SenLinYu (USA Today, NYT, Indie Bestsellers)

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

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