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Rank	Bibliographical Information (Click title for review)	Pub Date	Units
1	The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz Erik Larson, Author Crown Publishing Group (NY), $30.00 (592) 978-0-385-34871-3 Last rank 4 Initial Rank 1 Initial Date 03/09/2020 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 03/09/2020 Average Rank 4.38 [details] Sales history for The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz date, rank 03/09/2020, 1 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Feb 2020 UNITS SOLD: 49,100 YTD:	Feb 2020	49,100
2	A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America Philip Rucker, Author, Carol Leonnig, Author Penguin Press, $30.00 (480) 978-1-9848-7749-9 Last rank 10 Initial Rank 1 Initial Date 02/03/2020 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 02/03/2020 Average Rank 4.42 [details] Sales history for A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America date, rank 02/10/2020, 1 03/09/2020, 2 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Jan 2020 UNITS SOLD: 47,625 YTD:	Jan 2020	47,625
3	Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America's Progressive Elite Peter Schweizer, Author Harper, $29.99 (368) 978-0-06-289790-9 Last rank 27 Initial Rank 3 Initial Date 02/03/2020 Highest Rank 2 Highest Rank Date 02/03/2020 Average Rank 6.67 [details] Sales history for Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America's Progressive Elite date, rank 02/10/2020, 2 03/09/2020, 3 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Jan 2020 UNITS SOLD: 38,869 YTD:	Jan 2020	38,869
4	Why We're Polarized Ezra Klein, Author Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, $28.00 (336) 978-1-4767-0032-8 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 7 Initial Date 02/10/2020 Highest Rank 4 Highest Rank Date 02/17/2020 Average Rank 9.60 [details] Sales history for Why We're Polarized date, rank 03/09/2020, 4 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Jan 2020 UNITS SOLD: 18,029 YTD:	Jan 2020	18,029
5	Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Yuval Noah Harari, Author Harper Perennial, $22.99 (464) 978-0-06-231611-0 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 3 Initial Date 05/28/2018 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 03/04/2019 Average Rank 8.40 [details] Sales history for Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind date, rank 06/11/2018, 3 07/16/2018, 3 08/06/2018, 5 09/03/2018, 6 11/12/2018, 7 12/10/2018, 4 01/07/2019, 3 02/11/2019, 3 03/04/2019, 1 04/08/2019, 5 05/06/2019, 2 06/10/2019, 6 07/08/2019, 6 08/12/2019, 5 09/09/2019, 5 10/07/2019, 5 11/11/2019, 9 01/13/2020, 7 02/10/2020, 4 03/09/2020, 5 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: May 2018 UNITS SOLD: 17,340 YTD:	May 2018	17,340
6	On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century Timothy Snyder, Author Tim Duggan Books, $7.99 (128) 978-0-8041-9011-4 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 20 Initial Date 03/20/2017 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 04/10/2017 Average Rank 12.37 [details] Sales history for On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century date, rank 04/03/2017, 8 05/08/2017, 5 06/05/2017, 2 07/10/2017, 3 08/07/2017, 7 09/04/2017, 6 10/09/2017, 4 11/06/2017, 6 04/02/2018, 8 04/09/2018, 8 05/07/2018, 8 11/11/2019, 5 03/09/2020, 6 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Feb 2017 UNITS SOLD: 17,281 YTD:	Feb 2017	17,281
7	Unknown Valor: A Story of Family, Courage, and Sacrifice from Pearl Harbor to Iwo Jima Martha MacCallum, Author Harper, $27.99 (256) 978-0-06-285385-1 Last rank 14 Initial Rank 8 Initial Date 03/09/2020 Highest Rank 2 Highest Rank Date 03/09/2020 Average Rank 9.43 [details] Sales history for Unknown Valor: A Story of Family, Courage, and Sacrifice from Pearl Harbor to Iwo Jima date, rank 03/09/2020, 7 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Feb 2020 UNITS SOLD: 17,211 YTD:	Feb 2020	17,211
8	Un-Trumping America: A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again Dan Pfeiffer, Author Twelve, $28.00 (304) 978-1-5387-3355-4 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 4 Initial Date 03/02/2020 Highest Rank 4 Highest Rank Date 03/02/2020 Average Rank 10.67 [details] Sales history for Un-Trumping America: A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again date, rank 03/09/2020, 8 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Feb 2020 UNITS SOLD: 12,026 YTD:	Feb 2020	12,026
9	Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster Adam Higginbotham, Author Simon & Schuster, $19.00 (560) 978-1-5011-3463-0 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 12 Initial Date 02/17/2020 Highest Rank 9 Highest Rank Date 03/09/2020 Average Rank 10.50 [details] Sales history for Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster date, rank 03/09/2020, 9 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Feb 2020 UNITS SOLD: 10,502 YTD:	Feb 2020	10,502
10	Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers: The Texas Victory That Changed American History Brian Kilmeade, Author Sentinel, $28.00 (288) 978-0-525-54053-3 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 5 Initial Date 11/18/2019 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 01/13/2020 Average Rank 8.41 [details] Sales history for Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers: The Texas Victory That Changed American History date, rank 12/09/2019, 3 01/13/2020, 1 02/10/2020, 6 03/09/2020, 10 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Nov 2019 UNITS SOLD: 10,217 YTD:	Nov 2019	10,217

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As of 3/28/2020, due to extreme sales volatility caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, we are temporarily omitting unit sales for individual titles from the lists.

For the four-week period ended 2/29/20.