Sales Snapshot
If there are any middle schoolers out there who haven’t yet read Dog Man #14, Big Jim Believes, or Wimpy Kid #20, Partypooper, it’s very possible they’re going to be unwrapping Dav Pilkey or Jeff Kinney’s latest—or both—this holiday season. For the second week in a row, the books are respectively #1 and #2 in the country.
Stay Gold
Allen Levi self-published his debut novel, Theo of Golden, in 2023; hardcover and trade paper editions have sold a combined 140K print copies. Atria acquired the book and published it in October; this week, it’s #6 on our trade paperback list.
Movers & Shakers
We’re not placing bets on the biggest books of the holiday season, but this week at least, here are a few of the books making stronger showings than they did the week before. The Way of the Wildflower #11 Hardcover Nonfiction up 179% Good Things #14 Hardcover Nonfiction up 50% Puzzle Mania! #7 Hardcover Nonfiction up 69%
One door closes, another opens
Chloe C. Peñaranda concludes her Nytefall Trilogy with The Dark Is Descending, #9 on our hardcover fiction list. Our review of the 2024 series launch, The Stars Are Dying, deemed it “a rocky start”; nonetheless, that book and its sequel, The Night Is Defying, have sold 220K print copies. At #11 on our hardcover fiction list, Fallen Gods kicks off a romantasy series by Rachel Van Dyken, whose previous romances include contemporaries, regencies, and paranormals.
