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This Week’s Bestsellers: January 12, 2026
Matt Dinniman’s litRPG hit Dungeon Crawler Carl and the conclusion of Sarah Adams’s Rome, Kentucky romance series hit our trade paperback lists this week, while a new K-Pop Demon Hunters Golden Book topped our picture book bestsellers.
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Print Book Sales Rose Slightly in 2025
A mild rebound in children’s book sales helped to offset softness on the adult side, resulting in a 0.3% increase in unit sales of print books in 2025 over 2024. The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins was last year’s top-selling title.
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Book Club Picks for January 2026
Reese’s Book Club selects the sequel to The Last Thing He Told Me, Read with Jenna spotlights Stefan Merrill Block’s debut memoir, and more.
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Buzzy Titles Buoy Holiday Book Sales
Despite consumer anxiety and shipping delays, indie booksellers had a strong holiday season thanks to several surprise bestsellers, including an account of a 1976 shipwreck and a queer hockey romance.
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Supply Chain Disruptions Hobble Strong Holiday Sales Season
Indie booksellers reported robust holiday sales thanks to a variety of hot titles, but also expressed frustration with shipping delays and other issues, as Ingram and publishers struggled to keep up with an unanticipated surge in orders.
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Chicago Bookstore Fights to Serve Latinx Readers
As the deployment of ICE agents to the Windy City rattles the customer base of Los Amigos Books, the bilingual bookshop is also contending with tariffs as it seeks to become a distributor for Spanish-language titles.
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BLK Bestseller List Gains Momentum
The initiative, developed by the Black Book Accelerator, aims to give more exposure to books by Black authors. Since its launch, the monthly lists have spanned 711 distinct titles by 483 authors, and 98 publishers.
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Book Club Picks for December 2025
Good Morning America and Reese Witherspoon select Marisa Kashino’s and Rebecca Armitage’s respective debut novels, Jenna Bush Hager revisits a Jane Austen classic, and more.
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The Top Bookselling Stories of 2025
It was an eventful year for booksellers, who dealt with such obstacles as the Trump administration’s tariffs, National Guard occupations, and brush fires. Plus, Barnes & Noble acquired Books Inc. and drew indie publishers’ ire over its buying practices.
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This Week’s Bestsellers: December 15, 2025
The new Dog Man and Wimpy Kid books take the top spots on our list for the second week in a row. Plus the Atria edition of self-publishing success story Theo of Golden climbs the charts, and we clock other big books of the holiday season so far.
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