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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 2021 YTD
1	-	1	State of Terror Hillary Rodham Clinton, Author, Louise Penny, Author Simon & Schuster/St. Martin's Press, $30.00 (320) 978-1-9821-7367-8 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 1 Initial Date 10/25/2021 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 10/25/2021 Average Rank 1.00 [details] Sales history for State of Terror date, rank 10/25/2021, 1 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Oct 2021 UNITS SOLD: 61,131 YTD: 61,131	Oct 2021	61,131 61,131
2	-	1	The Christmas Pig J. K. Rowling, Author, Jim Field, Illustrator Scholastic Inc., $24.99 (288) 978-1-338-79023-8 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Oct 2021 UNITS SOLD: 37,060 YTD: 37,060	Oct 2021	37,060 37,060
3	3	3	The Wish Nicholas Sparks, Author Grand Central Publishing, $28.00 (400) 978-1-5387-2862-8 Last rank 3 Initial Rank 1 Initial Date 10/11/2021 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 10/11/2021 Average Rank 1.86 [details] Sales history for The Wish date, rank 10/11/2021, 1 10/18/2021, 3 10/25/2021, 3 LAST WEEK: 3 WEEKS ON LIST: 3 PUB DATE: Sep 2021 UNITS SOLD: 37,050 YTD: 180,327	Sep 2021	37,050 180,327
4	2	2	The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music Dave Grohl, Author Dey Street Books, $29.99 (304) 978-0-06-307609-9 Last rank 2 Initial Rank 1 Initial Date 10/18/2021 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 10/18/2021 Average Rank 2.00 [details] Sales history for The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music date, rank 10/18/2021, 2 10/25/2021, 4 LAST WEEK: 2 WEEKS ON LIST: 2 PUB DATE: Oct 2021 UNITS SOLD: 31,579 YTD: 94,073	Oct 2021	31,579 94,073
5	1	2	The Lincoln Highway Amor Towles, Author Viking, $30.00 (416) 978-0-7352-2235-9 Last rank 1 Initial Rank 1 Initial Date 10/18/2021 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 10/18/2021 Average Rank 2.50 [details] Sales history for The Lincoln Highway date, rank 10/18/2021, 1 10/25/2021, 5 LAST WEEK: 1 WEEKS ON LIST: 2 PUB DATE: Oct 2021 UNITS SOLD: 29,818 YTD: 94,733	Oct 2021	29,818 94,733
6	-	1	To Rescue the Republic: Ulysses S. Grant and the Grand Bargain of 1876 Bret Baier, Author Custom House, $28.99 (400) 978-0-06-303954-4 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 2 Initial Date 10/25/2021 Highest Rank 2 Highest Rank Date 10/25/2021 Average Rank 4.00 [details] Sales history for To Rescue the Republic: Ulysses S. Grant and the Grand Bargain of 1876 date, rank 10/25/2021, 6 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Oct 2021 UNITS SOLD: 29,052 YTD: 29,052	Oct 2021	29,052 29,052
7	10	7	Little Blue Truck's Halloween Alice Schertle, Author, Jill McElmurry, Illustrator HMH, $12.99 (16) 978-0-544-77253-3 Last rank 10 Initial Rank 13 Initial Date 07/18/2016 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 09/19/2016 Average Rank 4.48 [details] Sales history for Little Blue Truck's Halloween date, rank 09/19/2016, 8 09/26/2016, 5 10/03/2016, 7 10/10/2016, 8 10/26/2020, 10 09/13/2021, 7 09/20/2021, 8 09/27/2021, 9 10/04/2021, 10 10/11/2021, 8 10/18/2021, 10 10/25/2021, 7 LAST WEEK: 10 WEEKS ON LIST: 7 PUB DATE: Jul 2016 UNITS SOLD: 25,340 YTD: 158,671	Jul 2016	25,340 158,671
8	4	3	Cloud Cuckoo Land Anthony Doerr, Author Scribner Book Company, $30.00 (656) 978-1-9821-6843-8 Last rank 4 Initial Rank 2 Initial Date 10/11/2021 Highest Rank 2 Highest Rank Date 10/11/2021 Average Rank 4.00 [details] Sales history for Cloud Cuckoo Land date, rank 10/11/2021, 3 10/18/2021, 4 10/25/2021, 8 LAST WEEK: 4 WEEKS ON LIST: 3 PUB DATE: Sep 2021 UNITS SOLD: 23,093 YTD: 103,276	Sep 2021	23,093 103,276
9	16	20	It Ends with Us Colleen Hoover, Author Atria Books, $16.00 (384) 978-1-5011-1036-8 Last rank 16 Initial Rank 10 Initial Date 08/15/2016 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 09/06/2021 Average Rank 6.16 [details] Sales history for It Ends with Us date, rank 08/09/2021, 4 08/16/2021, 7 08/23/2021, 4 08/30/2021, 5 09/06/2021, 3 09/13/2021, 1 09/20/2021, 5 09/27/2021, 6 10/04/2021, 9 10/25/2021, 9 LAST WEEK: 16 WEEKS ON LIST: 20 PUB DATE: Aug 2016 UNITS SOLD: 21,872 YTD: 453,318	Aug 2016	21,872 453,318
10	-	1	The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood & Family Ron Howard, Author William Morrow & Company, $28.99 (320) 978-0-06-306524-6 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 3 Initial Date 10/25/2021 Highest Rank 3 Highest Rank Date 10/25/2021 Average Rank 6.50 [details] Sales history for The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood & Family date, rank 10/25/2021, 10 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Oct 2021 UNITS SOLD: 21,628 YTD: 21,628	Oct 2021	21,628 21,628

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NPD BookScan, week 42 of 2021 data through 10/16/2021; PW Issue of October 25, 2021

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