We have a long list of bestsellers for you this week, but none of these books are appearing here for the first time. That’s not a surprise: December is a big book-buying month, but it’s the slowest time in publishing, so there aren’t many buzzy books coming out now.

This list continues to lack of diversity on many levels, including being disproportionately by white authors. Some Indie Bestsellers you should know about are Katabasis by R. F. Kuang, The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali, Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, 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:

Brimstone (Fae & Alchemy #2) by Callie Hart

Books On Four Bestseller Lists:

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

The Correspondent by Virginia Evans (USA Today, NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)

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

Books On Three Bestseller Lists:

Big Jim Believes (Dog Man #14) by Dav Pilkey (Publishers Weekly, USA Today, Amazon)

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

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

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

Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice by Virginia Roberts Giuffre (NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)

The Housemaid by Freida McFadden (NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)

Alchemised by Senlinyu (Publishers Weekly, NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)

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