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Rank	Last Week	Weeks on List	Bibliographical Information (Click title for review)	Pub Date	Units 2026 YTD
1	-	1	107 Days Kamala Harris, Author Simon & Schuster, $30.00 (320) 978-1-6682-1165-6 Last rank 11 Initial Rank 1 Initial Date 10/06/2025 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 10/06/2025 Average Rank 10.72 [details] Sales history for 107 Days date, rank 10/06/2025, 1 10/13/2025, 1 10/20/2025, 6 10/27/2025, 4 11/03/2025, 13 11/10/2025, 12 11/17/2025, 18 11/24/2025, 21 12/01/2025, 17 12/08/2025, 11 12/15/2025, 22 12/22/2025, 16 12/29/2025, 12 01/05/2026, 11 01/12/2026, 12 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Sep 2025 UNITS SOLD: 170,124 YTD: 170,124	Sep 2025	170,124 170,124
2	1	40	The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can't Stop Talking about Mel Robbins, Author Hay House LLC, $29.99 (336) 978-1-4019-7136-6 Last rank 9 Initial Rank 3 Initial Date 01/06/2025 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 01/06/2025 Average Rank 2.37 [details] Sales history for The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can't Stop Talking about date, rank 01/06/2025, 1 01/13/2025, 1 01/20/2025, 1 01/27/2025, 1 02/03/2025, 1 02/10/2025, 1 02/17/2025, 1 02/24/2025, 1 03/03/2025, 1 03/10/2025, 1 03/17/2025, 1 03/24/2025, 1 03/31/2025, 1 04/07/2025, 1 04/14/2025, 1 04/21/2025, 1 04/28/2025, 1 05/05/2025, 1 05/12/2025, 1 05/19/2025, 1 05/26/2025, 1 06/02/2025, 2 06/09/2025, 1 06/16/2025, 1 06/23/2025, 1 06/30/2025, 1 07/07/2025, 1 07/14/2025, 1 07/21/2025, 1 07/28/2025, 1 08/04/2025, 1 08/11/2025, 1 08/18/2025, 1 08/25/2025, 1 09/01/2025, 1 09/08/2025, 1 09/15/2025, 2 09/22/2025, 2 09/29/2025, 1 10/06/2025, 2 10/13/2025, 2 10/20/2025, 1 10/27/2025, 3 11/03/2025, 2 11/10/2025, 3 11/17/2025, 5 11/24/2025, 1 12/01/2025, 2 12/08/2025, 1 12/15/2025, 1 12/22/2025, 1 12/29/2025, 1 01/05/2026, 1 LAST WEEK: 1 WEEKS ON LIST: 40 PUB DATE: Dec 2024 UNITS SOLD: 41,667 YTD: 2,228,197	Dec 2024	41,667 2,228,197
3	2	2	Poems & Prayers Matthew McConaughey, Author Crown Publishing Group (NY), $29.00 (208) 978-1-9848-6210-5 Last rank 38 Initial Rank 5 Initial Date 09/29/2025 Highest Rank 2 Highest Rank Date 09/29/2025 Average Rank 11.33 [details] Sales history for Poems & Prayers date, rank 09/29/2025, 2 10/06/2025, 3 10/13/2025, 4 10/20/2025, 7 10/27/2025, 8 11/03/2025, 15 11/10/2025, 13 11/24/2025, 24 12/08/2025, 12 12/15/2025, 15 12/22/2025, 12 12/29/2025, 13 01/05/2026, 9 01/12/2026, 11 01/19/2026, 23 02/23/2026, 21 LAST WEEK: 2 WEEKS ON LIST: 2 PUB DATE: Sep 2025 UNITS SOLD: 32,348 YTD: 69,378	Sep 2025	32,348 69,378
4	-	1	Awake: A Memoir Jen Hatmaker, Author Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, $30.00 (320) 978-1-6680-8368-0 Last rank 4 Initial Rank 9 Initial Date 10/06/2025 Highest Rank 4 Highest Rank Date 10/06/2025 Average Rank 8.33 [details] Sales history for Awake: A Memoir date, rank 10/06/2025, 4 10/13/2025, 12 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Sep 2025 UNITS SOLD: 28,905 YTD: 28,905	Sep 2025	28,905 28,905
5	-	1	Jump and Find Joy: Embracing Change in Every Season of Life Hoda Kotb, Author G.P. Putnam's Sons, $30.00 (288) 979-8-217-04388-0 Last rank 5 Initial Rank 5 Initial Date 10/06/2025 Highest Rank 5 Highest Rank Date 10/06/2025 Average Rank 11.00 [details] Sales history for Jump and Find Joy: Embracing Change in Every Season of Life date, rank 10/06/2025, 5 10/13/2025, 17 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Sep 2025 UNITS SOLD: 14,448 YTD: 14,448	Sep 2025	14,448 14,448
6	-	1	Softly, as I Leave You: Life After Elvis Priscilla Presley, Author, Mary Jane Ross, Author Grand Central Publishing, $32.00 (336) 978-0-306-83648-0 Last rank 6 Initial Rank 6 Initial Date 10/06/2025 Highest Rank 6 Highest Rank Date 10/06/2025 Average Rank 15.50 [details] Sales history for Softly, as I Leave You: Life After Elvis date, rank 10/06/2025, 6 10/13/2025, 25 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Sep 2025 UNITS SOLD: 13,621 YTD: 13,621	Sep 2025	13,621 13,621
7	-	1	The Biology of Trauma: How the Body Holds Fear, Pain, and Overwhelm, and How to Heal It (Not for Online) Aimie Apigian, Author, Gabor Maté, Foreword by Benbella Books, $19.95 (320) 978-1-63774-623-3 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Sep 2025 UNITS SOLD: 12,599 YTD: 12,599	Sep 2025	12,599 12,599
8	5	3	Confronting Evil: Assessing the Worst of the Worst Bill O'Reilly, Author, Josh Hammer, Author St. Martin's Press, $32.00 (304) 978-1-250-37404-2 Last rank 19 Initial Rank 5 Initial Date 09/22/2025 Highest Rank 3 Highest Rank Date 09/22/2025 Average Rank 14.71 [details] Sales history for Confronting Evil: Assessing the Worst of the Worst date, rank 09/22/2025, 3 09/29/2025, 5 10/06/2025, 8 10/13/2025, 9 10/20/2025, 18 10/27/2025, 20 11/03/2025, 22 11/10/2025, 24 12/15/2025, 24 12/22/2025, 22 12/29/2025, 19 01/05/2026, 19 LAST WEEK: 5 WEEKS ON LIST: 3 PUB DATE: Sep 2025 UNITS SOLD: 11,954 YTD: 58,895	Sep 2025	11,954 58,895
9	3	2	Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love: A Cookbook Samin Nosrat, Author, Aya Brackett, Photographer Random House, $45.00 (464) 978-1-9848-5778-1 Last rank 4 Initial Rank 6 Initial Date 09/29/2025 Highest Rank 3 Highest Rank Date 09/29/2025 Average Rank 11.85 [details] Sales history for Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love: A Cookbook date, rank 09/29/2025, 3 10/06/2025, 9 10/13/2025, 8 10/20/2025, 24 12/01/2025, 20 12/08/2025, 21 12/15/2025, 14 12/22/2025, 11 12/29/2025, 10 01/05/2026, 8 01/12/2026, 4 01/19/2026, 16 LAST WEEK: 3 WEEKS ON LIST: 2 PUB DATE: Sep 2025 UNITS SOLD: 11,775 YTD: 34,210	Sep 2025	11,775 34,210
10	-	1	Transformation Principles: How to Create Enduring Change Hemant Taneja, Author, Kevin Maney, With Matt Holt Books, $30.00 (240) 978-1-63774-735-3 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Sep 2025 UNITS SOLD: 11,524 YTD: 11,524	Sep 2025	11,524 11,524
11	-	1	Parm to Table: Italian American and American Italian Recipes from Ponza to the Bronx Christian Petroni, Author, Martha Stewart, Foreword by Harvest Publications, $35.00 (240) 978-0-06-337858-2 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Sep 2025 UNITS SOLD: 10,265 YTD: 10,265	Sep 2025	10,265 10,265
12	6	3	All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation Elizabeth Gilbert, Author Riverhead Books, $35.00 (400) 978-0-593-54098-5 Last rank 12 Initial Rank 6 Initial Date 09/22/2025 Highest Rank 4 Highest Rank Date 09/22/2025 Average Rank 8.40 [details] Sales history for All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation date, rank 09/22/2025, 4 09/29/2025, 6 10/06/2025, 12 10/13/2025, 14 LAST WEEK: 6 WEEKS ON LIST: 3 PUB DATE: Sep 2025 UNITS SOLD: 8,887 YTD: 41,021	Sep 2025	8,887 41,021
13	8	3	The Book of Sheen: A Memoir Charlie Sheen, Author Gallery Books, $35.00 (368) 978-1-6680-7528-9 Last rank 8 Initial Rank 6 Initial Date 09/22/2025 Highest Rank 6 Highest Rank Date 09/22/2025 Average Rank 9.00 [details] Sales history for The Book of Sheen: A Memoir date, rank 09/22/2025, 6 09/29/2025, 8 10/06/2025, 13 LAST WEEK: 8 WEEKS ON LIST: 3 PUB DATE: Sep 2025 UNITS SOLD: 7,562 YTD: 31,332	Sep 2025	7,562 31,332
14	12	4	The Avatar Jonathan Cahn, Author Frontline, $28.99 (304) 978-1-63641-520-8 Last rank 14 Initial Rank 1 Initial Date 09/15/2025 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 09/15/2025 Average Rank 9.17 [details] Sales history for The Avatar date, rank 09/15/2025, 1 09/22/2025, 11 09/29/2025, 12 10/06/2025, 14 10/13/2025, 13 LAST WEEK: 12 WEEKS ON LIST: 4 PUB DATE: Sep 2025 UNITS SOLD: 6,265 YTD: 55,493	Sep 2025	6,265 55,493
15	15	48	Don't Believe Everything You Think (Expanded Edition): Why Your Thinking Is the Beginning & End of Suffering Joseph Nguyen, Author Authors Equity, $22.00 (192) 979-8-89331-015-3 Last rank 21 Initial Rank 15 Initial Date 11/11/2024 Highest Rank 2 Highest Rank Date 07/14/2025 Average Rank 10.65 [details] Sales history for Don't Believe Everything You Think (Expanded Edition): Why Your Thinking Is the Beginning & End of Suffering date, rank 11/11/2024, 15 12/02/2024, 24 12/09/2024, 21 12/16/2024, 20 12/23/2024, 19 12/30/2024, 19 01/06/2025, 17 01/13/2025, 7 01/20/2025, 7 01/27/2025, 10 02/03/2025, 12 02/10/2025, 13 02/17/2025, 11 02/24/2025, 8 03/03/2025, 7 03/10/2025, 7 03/17/2025, 13 03/24/2025, 11 03/31/2025, 15 04/07/2025, 10 04/14/2025, 11 04/21/2025, 16 04/28/2025, 14 05/05/2025, 7 05/12/2025, 9 05/19/2025, 10 05/26/2025, 8 06/02/2025, 8 06/09/2025, 4 06/16/2025, 9 06/23/2025, 4 06/30/2025, 5 07/07/2025, 3 07/14/2025, 2 07/21/2025, 3 07/28/2025, 4 08/04/2025, 3 08/11/2025, 4 08/18/2025, 4 08/25/2025, 5 09/01/2025, 2 09/08/2025, 4 09/15/2025, 8 09/22/2025, 15 09/29/2025, 15 10/06/2025, 15 10/13/2025, 16 10/20/2025, 11 10/27/2025, 17 11/03/2025, 21 11/10/2025, 20 LAST WEEK: 15 WEEKS ON LIST: 48 PUB DATE: Oct 2024 UNITS SOLD: 6,006 YTD: 260,189	Oct 2024	6,006 260,189
16	9	2	History Matters David McCullough, Author, Dorie McCullough Lawson, Contribution by, Michael Hill, Contribution by Simon & Schuster, $27.00 (208) 978-1-6680-9899-8 Last rank 16 Initial Rank 9 Initial Date 09/29/2025 Highest Rank 9 Highest Rank Date 09/29/2025 Average Rank 15.33 [details] Sales history for History Matters date, rank 09/29/2025, 9 10/06/2025, 16 10/13/2025, 21 LAST WEEK: 9 WEEKS ON LIST: 2 PUB DATE: Sep 2025 UNITS SOLD: 5,988 YTD: 15,205	Sep 2025	5,988 15,205
17	16	3	Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds John Fugelsang, Author Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, $29.99 (304) 978-1-6680-6689-8 Last rank 8 Initial Rank 14 Initial Date 09/22/2025 Highest Rank 6 Highest Rank Date 10/27/2025 Average Rank 16.56 [details] Sales history for Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds date, rank 09/22/2025, 14 09/29/2025, 16 10/06/2025, 17 10/27/2025, 6 11/03/2025, 14 11/10/2025, 25 01/12/2026, 25 01/19/2026, 8 01/26/2026, 24 LAST WEEK: 16 WEEKS ON LIST: 3 PUB DATE: Aug 2025 UNITS SOLD: 4,920 YTD: 15,855	Aug 2025	4,920 15,855
18	-	1	The Art of Gluten-Free Bread: Groundbreaking Recipes and Innovative Techniques for Artisanal Breads and Pastries Aran Goyoaga, Author Artisan Publishers, $40.00 (400) 978-1-64829-202-6 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Sep 2025 UNITS SOLD: 4,540 YTD: 4,540	Sep 2025	4,540 4,540
19	-	1	Faithonomics: The Wealth is in the Kingdom, the Legacy is in the Story Jerry Lopez, Author Jerry Lopez, $28.99 (130) 979-8-218-76236-0 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Sep 2025 UNITS SOLD: 4,384 YTD: 4,384	Sep 2025	4,384 4,384
20	4	2	The Biblio Diet: Live Long, Master Metabolism, Reduce Pain, Fight Depression, and Conquer Cancer with Healing Secrets from the Bible Jordan Rubin, Author, Joshua Axe, Author Worthy Books, $30.00 (272) 978-1-5460-0843-9 Last rank 33 Initial Rank 7 Initial Date 09/29/2025 Highest Rank 4 Highest Rank Date 09/29/2025 Average Rank 13.43 [details] Sales history for The Biblio Diet: Live Long, Master Metabolism, Reduce Pain, Fight Depression, and Conquer Cancer with Healing Secrets from the Bible date, rank 09/29/2025, 4 10/06/2025, 20 10/13/2025, 15 01/19/2026, 15 01/26/2026, 14 03/23/2026, 19 LAST WEEK: 4 WEEKS ON LIST: 2 PUB DATE: Sep 2025 UNITS SOLD: 4,332 YTD: 26,520	Sep 2025	4,332 26,520
21	-	1	Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity Paul Kingsnorth, Author Thesis, $32.00 (384) 978-0-593-85063-3 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Sep 2025 UNITS SOLD: 4,181 YTD: 4,181	Sep 2025	4,181 4,181
22	-	1	Stories from a Stranger: Every Person Has a Story. Hunter Prosper, Author S&s/Simon Element, $32.50 (288) 978-1-6680-6542-6 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Sep 2025 UNITS SOLD: 3,922 YTD: 3,922	Sep 2025	3,922 3,922
23	33	7	Tame Your Thoughts: Three Tools to Renew Your Mind and Transform Your Life Max Lucado, Author Thomas Nelson, $29.99 (240) 978-1-4002-5623-5 Last rank 33 Initial Rank 3 Initial Date 08/25/2025 Highest Rank 3 Highest Rank Date 08/25/2025 Average Rank 11.40 [details] Sales history for Tame Your Thoughts: Three Tools to Renew Your Mind and Transform Your Life date, rank 08/25/2025, 3 09/01/2025, 5 09/08/2025, 9 09/15/2025, 17 10/06/2025, 23 LAST WEEK: 33 WEEKS ON LIST: 7 PUB DATE: Aug 2025 UNITS SOLD: 3,897 YTD: 30,344	Aug 2025	3,897 30,344
24	-	1	Successful Failure: How I Learned You Can't Excel Without Some Ls Kevin Fredericks, Author Convergent Books, $27.00 (256) 978-0-593-73567-1 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Sep 2025 UNITS SOLD: 3,767 YTD: 3,767	Sep 2025	3,767 3,767
25	21	5	Guinness World Records 2026 Guinness World Records, Author Guinness World Records, $29.95 (256) 978-1-913484-75-0 Last rank 7 Initial Rank 5 Initial Date 09/08/2025 Highest Rank 4 Highest Rank Date 12/08/2025 Average Rank 14.20 [details] Sales history for Guinness World Records 2026 date, rank 09/08/2025, 5 09/15/2025, 15 09/22/2025, 25 09/29/2025, 21 10/06/2025, 25 10/13/2025, 22 11/17/2025, 23 11/24/2025, 14 12/01/2025, 11 12/08/2025, 4 12/15/2025, 6 12/22/2025, 5 12/29/2025, 8 01/05/2026, 7 01/12/2026, 22 LAST WEEK: 21 WEEKS ON LIST: 5 PUB DATE: Aug 2025 UNITS SOLD: 3,694 YTD: 20,296	Aug 2025	3,694 20,296

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Source: Circana BookScan, for the week ended Sept. 27, 2025; appearing in the Oct. 6, 2025, print edition of PW