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Top 10 Overall

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Rank	Last Week	Weeks on List	Bibliographical Information (Click title for review)	Pub Date	Units 2020 YTD
1	-	1	The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir John Bolton, Author Simon & Schuster, $32.50 (592) 978-1-9821-4803-4 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 1 Initial Date 07/06/2020 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 07/06/2020 Average Rank 1.00 [details] Sales history for The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir date, rank 07/06/2020, 1 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Jun 2020 UNITS SOLD: 221,341 YTD: 221,341	Jun 2020	221,341 221,341
2	2	5	White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism Robin DiAngelo, Author, Michael Eric Dyson, Foreword by Beacon Press, $16.00 (192) 978-0-8070-4741-5 Last rank 2 Initial Rank 25 Initial Date 11/26/2018 Highest Rank 2 Highest Rank Date 06/29/2020 Average Rank 18.06 [details] Sales history for White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism date, rank 06/15/2020, 3 06/22/2020, 3 06/29/2020, 2 07/06/2020, 2 LAST WEEK: 2 WEEKS ON LIST: 5 PUB DATE: Jun 2018 UNITS SOLD: 154,387 YTD: 425,918	Jun 2018	154,387 425,918
3	1	5	How to Be an Antiracist Ibram X Kendi, Author One World, $25.00 (160) 978-0-525-50928-8 Last rank 1 Initial Rank 9 Initial Date 08/26/2019 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 08/26/2019 Average Rank 4.88 [details] Sales history for How to Be an Antiracist date, rank 08/26/2019, 9 09/09/2019, 1 10/07/2019, 6 02/10/2020, 9 06/08/2020, 8 06/22/2020, 7 06/29/2020, 1 07/06/2020, 3 LAST WEEK: 1 WEEKS ON LIST: 5 PUB DATE: Aug 2019 UNITS SOLD: 84,142 YTD: 302,356	Aug 2019	84,142 302,356
4	3	6	The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (a Hunger Games Novel) Suzanne Collins, Author Scholastic Press, $27.99 (624) 978-1-338-63517-1 Last rank 1 Initial Rank 1 Initial Date 06/01/2020 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 06/01/2020 Average Rank 1.42 [details] Sales history for The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (a Hunger Games Novel) date, rank 06/01/2020, 1 06/08/2020, 1 06/15/2020, 1 06/22/2020, 1 06/29/2020, 3 07/06/2020, 4 LAST WEEK: 3 WEEKS ON LIST: 6 PUB DATE: May 2020 UNITS SOLD: 42,137 YTD: 851,283	May 2020	42,137 851,283
5	30	4	Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America Ibram X Kendi, Author Bold Type Books, $19.99 (608) 978-1-56858-598-7 Last rank 30 Initial Rank 5 Initial Date 06/22/2020 Highest Rank 5 Highest Rank Date 06/22/2020 Average Rank 5.00 [details] Sales history for Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America date, rank 06/22/2020, 5 07/06/2020, 5 LAST WEEK: 30 WEEKS ON LIST: 4 PUB DATE: Aug 2017 UNITS SOLD: 38,372 YTD: 108,422	Aug 2017	38,372 108,422
6	7	4	So You Want to Talk about Race Ijeoma Oluo, Author Seal Press (CA), $16.99 (256) 978-1-58005-882-7 Last rank 1 Initial Rank 21 Initial Date 10/07/2019 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 06/15/2020 Average Rank 5.60 [details] Sales history for So You Want to Talk about Race date, rank 06/15/2020, 2 06/22/2020, 2 06/29/2020, 7 07/06/2020, 6 LAST WEEK: 7 WEEKS ON LIST: 4 PUB DATE: Sep 2019 UNITS SOLD: 32,186 YTD: 182,986	Sep 2019	32,186 182,986
7	37	3	Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-Winning Stamped from the Beginning Jason Reynolds, Author, Ibram X Kendi, Author Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $18.99 (304) 978-0-316-45369-1 LAST WEEK: 37 WEEKS ON LIST: 3 PUB DATE: Mar 2020 UNITS SOLD: 30,356 YTD: 95,053	Mar 2020	30,356 95,053
8	64	4	Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates, Author Spiegel & Grau, $24.00 (176) 978-0-8129-9354-7 Last rank 64 Initial Rank 10 Initial Date 07/27/2015 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 08/10/2015 Average Rank 8.25 [details] Sales history for Between the World and Me date, rank 07/27/2015, 10 08/03/2015, 10 08/10/2015, 1 09/14/2015, 1 10/12/2015, 1 11/09/2015, 2 12/14/2015, 3 01/11/2016, 1 02/08/2016, 2 03/07/2016, 2 04/11/2016, 3 05/09/2016, 5 06/13/2016, 9 07/11/2016, 4 08/08/2016, 5 09/05/2016, 5 10/10/2016, 8 02/13/2017, 8 03/06/2017, 9 09/04/2017, 9 10/09/2017, 8 09/03/2018, 9 07/06/2020, 8 LAST WEEK: 64 WEEKS ON LIST: 4 PUB DATE: Jul 2015 UNITS SOLD: 28,755 YTD: 91,966	Jul 2015	28,755 91,966
9	8	94	Where the Crawdads Sing Delia Owens, Author G.P. Putnam's Sons, $26.00 (384) 978-0-7352-1909-0 Last rank 8 Initial Rank 24 Initial Date 09/03/2018 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 02/04/2019 Average Rank 4.26 [details] Sales history for Where the Crawdads Sing date, rank 01/21/2019, 9 01/28/2019, 7 02/04/2019, 6 02/11/2019, 5 02/18/2019, 6 02/25/2019, 6 03/04/2019, 5 03/11/2019, 5 03/18/2019, 4 03/25/2019, 3 04/01/2019, 1 04/08/2019, 2 04/15/2019, 1 04/22/2019, 3 04/29/2019, 4 05/06/2019, 3 05/13/2019, 2 05/20/2019, 1 05/27/2019, 3 06/03/2019, 4 06/10/2019, 3 06/17/2019, 1 06/24/2019, 1 07/01/2019, 1 07/08/2019, 1 07/15/2019, 1 07/22/2019, 1 07/29/2019, 2 08/05/2019, 2 08/12/2019, 2 08/19/2019, 1 08/26/2019, 2 09/02/2019, 2 09/09/2019, 3 09/16/2019, 3 09/23/2019, 5 09/30/2019, 7 10/14/2019, 7 10/21/2019, 5 12/02/2019, 9 12/09/2019, 9 12/16/2019, 4 12/23/2019, 4 12/30/2019, 3 01/06/2020, 5 01/13/2020, 3 01/20/2020, 1 01/27/2020, 3 02/03/2020, 5 02/10/2020, 5 02/17/2020, 7 02/24/2020, 4 03/02/2020, 3 03/09/2020, 10 03/23/2020, 8 03/30/2020, 2 04/06/2020, 2 04/13/2020, 2 04/20/2020, 4 04/27/2020, 3 05/04/2020, 4 05/11/2020, 5 05/18/2020, 5 05/25/2020, 3 06/01/2020, 4 06/08/2020, 6 06/15/2020, 4 06/22/2020, 9 06/29/2020, 8 07/06/2020, 9 LAST WEEK: 8 WEEKS ON LIST: 94 PUB DATE: Aug 2018 UNITS SOLD: 25,702 YTD: 688,140	Aug 2018	25,702 688,140
10	4	2	28 Summers Elin Hilderbrand, Author Little Brown and Company, $28.00 (432) 978-0-316-42004-4 Last rank 1 Initial Rank 4 Initial Date 06/29/2020 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 06/29/2020 Average Rank 4.00 [details] Sales history for 28 Summers date, rank 06/29/2020, 4 07/06/2020, 10 LAST WEEK: 4 WEEKS ON LIST: 2 PUB DATE: Jun 2020 UNITS SOLD: 25,184 YTD: 77,803	Jun 2020	25,184 77,803

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NPD BookScan, week 26 of 2020 data through 6/27/2020; PW Issue of July 6, 2020