Unit sales of print books rose 1.6% in the week ended Aug. 21, 2021, over the comparable week in 2020, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. Sales of adult fiction had the biggest increase, with sales up 26.3% over the week ended Aug. 22, 2020. Three new releases lead the way: Bloodless by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child was the top seller in the category, selling more than 38,000 copies. In fourth place on the adult fiction list was Danielle Steel’s latest, Complications, followed by The Noise: A Thriller by James Patterson and J.D. Barker, which sold approximately 21,000 copies and 17,000 copies, respectively. Sales of young adult titles rose 18.4% over 2020. There was no new big book that lifted sales, but rather strength throughout the category. They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera was #1 again, selling more than 16,000 copies. The drop in adult nonfiction sales continued, with units down 6.8% even as comparisons to 2020 eased somewhat. Sean Hannity’s Live Free or Die was #1 at this point last year, selling nearly 57,000 copies. Topping the adult nonfiction chart in the most recent week was, once again, Mark Levin’s American Marxism, which sold almost 43,000 copies. New releases were in the third to fifth positions on the list. Woke, Inc. by Vivek Ramaswamy was in third place, followed by Mary Trump’s The Reckoning, which sold nearly 17,000 copies in its first week. (Her Too Much and Never Enough sold about 30,000 copies at this time last year.) Jackie Hill Perry’s Holier Than Thou sold more than 14,000 copies.