The best-selling books of the week, according to all lists

July 22, 2024

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The Runebreakers Comic Book

The Runebreakers, the popular fantasy webcomic by Cearnach Grimm, is a hilarious journey through the absurdities and misadventures that any gamer, role-player or fantasy fan knows all too well. Runebreakers offers a wonderful escape into a world where the only thing more unpredictable than the dice rolls are the antics of the adventuring party itself. This book contains the hit comic panels from the webcomic series (and adds some new stories). You’ll meet hard-of-hearing ghosts, thirsty dwarves and drunken dragons (or was it the other way around?), and a wizard who fails at every spell.

Each bestseller list has its own criteria and uses its own data, which means they can be quite different, so we combine them to get an idea of the best-selling books right now. This week looks pretty similar to last, but we have two new titles: A Death in Cornwall by Daniel Silva, book #24 (!) in the Gabriel Allon crime series, and Reckless by Lauren Roberts, the second book in the romantic fantasy trilogy Powerless.

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 Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley, Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, and Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner.

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.