This week’s bestseller list looks very similar to last week’s, but we have a new addition: The God of the Woods by Liz Moore… and The Secret of the Maid by Freida McFadden, but since we already had books one and three in the series, it’s not that exciting to add book two to the list. The God of the Forest has generated a lot of excitement since its release on July 2. Barnes and Noble made it its July book club selection, and All the Books host and velocireader Liberty Hardy called it one of her favorite reads of the year so far.
This list continues to lack diversity on many levels, including being disproportionately populated by white authors. Some indie bestsellers you should know about include The Night Ends with Fire by KX Song, James by Percival Everett, and The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi.
To get these numbers, we look at the overall top 10 from USA Today and the overall top 10 from Publishers Weekly. The New York Times Top 10, both combined print and e-book fiction lists and combined print and e-book nonfiction lists; top 10 Amazon charts, both fiction and nonfiction; and top 10 indie bestsellers, fiction and nonfiction, both paperback and hardcover. New additions to the list this week are in bold.
Books on three bestseller lists:
The fearful generation by Jonathan Haidt (NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestseller)
The God of the Forest by Liz Moore (USA Today, NYT, Indie Bestseller)
On Call by Anthony Fauci (NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestseller)
Eruption by Michael Crichton and James Patterson (Publishers Weekly, NYT, Amazon)
The Maid’s Secret by Freida McFadden (Publishers Weekly, NYT, Amazon)
“The Body Keeps the Score” by Bessel van der Kolk (NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestseller)
The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson (NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestseller)
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