Sales Snapshot
The week’s big debuts include the Middle Atlantic’s top pick, Rhett & Link Present: The Mythical Cookbook by food writer Josh Scherer, the Mythical Chef on Rhett & Link’s Good Mythical Morning YouTube series. Elsewhere, Deion “Coach Prime” Sanders scores in the East South Central states with Elevate and Dominate, and in the West South Central region, which includes romantasy author Scarlett St. Clair’s native Oklahoma, A Touch of Chaos reigns. Kristin Hannah’s The Women is the #1 book in the country for the third week in a row.
Jump Start
Eiichiro Oda launched the shōnen manga One Piece in 1997, and an anime adaptation began airing in Japan two years later. As the megapopular property celebrates the 25th anniversary of the anime series, a trio of One Piece books from U.S. publisher Viz land on our trade paperback list (One Piece, Vol. 105, One Piece: Ace’s Story: The Manga, Vol. 1, and One Piece: Shokugeki no Sanji).
NEW & NOTABLE
Until August
Gabriel García Márquez
#15 Hardcover Fiction
The Nobel-winning author, who died in 2014, struggled to finish this novel toward the end of his life while suffering from dementia. Unsatisfied with the result, he asked that the drafts be destroyed. In a move that has met with public criticism, his sons released a version of the manuscript in Spanish on March 6, which would have been his 97th birthday, and in English on March 12.
