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Rank	Last Week	Weeks on List	Bibliographical Information (Click title for review)	Pub Date	Units 2026 YTD
1	-	1	Partypooper: a Side-Splitting Birthday Disaster from the #1 International Bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid Series (Book 20) Jeff Kinney, Author Amulet Books, $14.99 (224) 978-1-4197-8269-5 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 1 Initial Date 11/03/2025 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 11/03/2025 Average Rank 2.44 [details] Sales history for Partypooper: a Side-Splitting Birthday Disaster from the #1 International Bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid Series (Book 20) date, rank 11/03/2025, 1 11/10/2025, 1 11/17/2025, 2 11/24/2025, 2 12/01/2025, 4 12/08/2025, 2 12/15/2025, 2 12/22/2025, 2 12/29/2025, 3 01/05/2026, 3 01/12/2026, 10 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Oct 2025 UNITS SOLD: 192,445 YTD: 192,445	Oct 2025	192,445 192,445
2	-	1	The Widow John Grisham, Author Doubleday Books, $32.00 (368) 978-0-385-54898-4 Last rank 11 Initial Rank 2 Initial Date 11/03/2025 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 11/03/2025 Average Rank 5.06 [details] Sales history for The Widow date, rank 11/03/2025, 2 11/10/2025, 4 11/17/2025, 5 11/24/2025, 4 12/01/2025, 8 12/08/2025, 4 12/15/2025, 6 12/22/2025, 5 12/29/2025, 4 01/05/2026, 6 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Oct 2025 UNITS SOLD: 101,200 YTD: 101,200	Oct 2025	101,200 101,200
3	-	1	Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Author Knopf Publishing Group, $35.00 (400) 978-0-593-49312-0 Last rank 13 Initial Rank 3 Initial Date 11/03/2025 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 11/03/2025 Average Rank 8.00 [details] Sales history for Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice date, rank 11/03/2025, 3 11/10/2025, 6 12/01/2025, 10 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Oct 2025 UNITS SOLD: 89,744 YTD: 89,744	Oct 2025	89,744 89,744
4	-	1	The Proving Ground: A Lincoln Lawyer Novel Michael Connelly, Author Little Brown and Company, $30.00 (400) 978-0-316-56382-6 Last rank 22 Initial Rank 4 Initial Date 11/03/2025 Highest Rank 2 Highest Rank Date 11/03/2025 Average Rank 12.62 [details] Sales history for The Proving Ground: A Lincoln Lawyer Novel date, rank 11/03/2025, 4 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Oct 2025 UNITS SOLD: 42,039 YTD: 42,039	Oct 2025	42,039 42,039
5	-	1	The Things Gods Break Abigail Owen, Author Entangled: Red Tower Books, $32.99 (500) 978-1-64937-853-8 Last rank 12 Initial Rank 5 Initial Date 11/03/2025 Highest Rank 3 Highest Rank Date 11/03/2025 Average Rank 10.25 [details] Sales history for The Things Gods Break date, rank 11/03/2025, 5 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Sep 2025 UNITS SOLD: 41,628 YTD: 42,570	Sep 2025	41,628 42,570
6	7	44	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, 3 01/13/2025, 1 01/20/2025, 1 01/27/2025, 2 02/03/2025, 3 02/10/2025, 2 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, 2 04/07/2025, 2 04/14/2025, 3 04/21/2025, 3 04/28/2025, 2 05/05/2025, 3 05/12/2025, 2 05/19/2025, 2 05/26/2025, 1 06/02/2025, 4 06/09/2025, 2 06/16/2025, 1 06/23/2025, 2 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, 2 08/25/2025, 1 09/01/2025, 3 09/08/2025, 3 09/15/2025, 5 09/22/2025, 4 09/29/2025, 4 10/06/2025, 4 10/13/2025, 9 10/20/2025, 4 10/27/2025, 7 11/03/2025, 6 11/10/2025, 8 11/17/2025, 9 11/24/2025, 5 12/01/2025, 6 12/08/2025, 3 12/15/2025, 3 12/22/2025, 3 12/29/2025, 2 01/05/2026, 2 01/12/2026, 3 01/19/2026, 1 01/26/2026, 2 02/02/2026, 5 02/09/2026, 5 02/16/2026, 3 02/23/2026, 5 03/02/2026, 6 03/09/2026, 7 03/16/2026, 10 03/23/2026, 9 03/30/2026, 9 LAST WEEK: 7 WEEKS ON LIST: 44 PUB DATE: Dec 2024 UNITS SOLD: 30,313 YTD: 2,361,501	Dec 2024	30,313 2,361,501
7	-	1	To Rescue the American Spirit: Teddy Roosevelt and the Birth of a Superpower Bret Baier, Author Mariner Books, $32.99 (400) 978-0-06-336075-4 Last rank 14 Initial Rank 7 Initial Date 11/03/2025 Highest Rank 3 Highest Rank Date 11/03/2025 Average Rank 13.92 [details] Sales history for To Rescue the American Spirit: Teddy Roosevelt and the Birth of a Superpower date, rank 11/03/2025, 7 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Oct 2025 UNITS SOLD: 28,569 YTD: 28,569	Oct 2025	28,569 28,569
8	2	2	1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--And How It Shattered a Nation Andrew Ross Sorkin, Author Viking, $35.00 (592) 978-0-593-29696-7 Last rank 22 Initial Rank 2 Initial Date 10/27/2025 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 01/12/2026 Average Rank 8.41 [details] Sales history for 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--And How It Shattered a Nation date, rank 10/27/2025, 2 11/03/2025, 8 LAST WEEK: 2 WEEKS ON LIST: 2 PUB DATE: Oct 2025 UNITS SOLD: 26,519 YTD: 81,473	Oct 2025	26,519 81,473
9	9	7	The Secret of Secrets Dan Brown, Author Doubleday Books, $38.00 (688) 978-0-385-54689-8 Last rank 14 Initial Rank 1 Initial Date 09/22/2025 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 09/22/2025 Average Rank 6.53 [details] Sales history for The Secret of Secrets date, rank 09/22/2025, 1 09/29/2025, 1 10/06/2025, 3 10/13/2025, 4 10/20/2025, 5 10/27/2025, 9 11/03/2025, 9 12/08/2025, 6 12/15/2025, 10 12/22/2025, 7 12/29/2025, 10 01/05/2026, 7 LAST WEEK: 9 WEEKS ON LIST: 7 PUB DATE: Sep 2025 UNITS SOLD: 24,238 YTD: 407,230	Sep 2025	24,238 407,230
10	3	2	Remain Nicholas Sparks, Author, M Night Shyamalan, Author Random House, $30.00 (320) 979-8-217-15404-3 Last rank 21 Initial Rank 3 Initial Date 10/27/2025 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 10/27/2025 Average Rank 12.25 [details] Sales history for Remain date, rank 10/27/2025, 3 11/03/2025, 10 LAST WEEK: 3 WEEKS ON LIST: 2 PUB DATE: Oct 2025 UNITS SOLD: 23,006 YTD: 73,747	Oct 2025	23,006 73,747

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Source: Circana BookScan, for the week ended Oct. 25, 2025; appearing in the Nov. 3, 2025, print edition of PW