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Rank	Bibliographical Information (Click title for review)	Pub Date	Units
1	How to Be an Antiracist Ibram X Kendi, Author One World, $25.00 (160) 978-0-525-50928-8 Last rank 2 Initial Rank 9 Initial Date 08/26/2019 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 08/26/2019 Average Rank 4.42 [details] Sales history for How to Be an Antiracist date, rank 09/09/2019, 1 10/07/2019, 6 02/10/2020, 9 06/08/2020, 8 07/06/2020, 1 08/10/2020, 1 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Aug 2019 UNITS SOLD: 180,976 YTD:	Aug 2019	180,976
2	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 0 Initial Rank 5 Initial Date 06/22/2020 Highest Rank 2 Highest Rank Date 08/10/2020 Average Rank 3.80 [details] Sales history for Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America date, rank 07/06/2020, 3 08/10/2020, 2 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Aug 2017 UNITS SOLD: 81,161 YTD:	Aug 2017	81,161
3	How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps Ben Shapiro, Author Broadside Books, $28.99 (288) 978-0-06-300187-9 Last rank 4 Initial Rank 2 Initial Date 08/03/2020 Highest Rank 2 Highest Rank Date 08/03/2020 Average Rank 3.80 [details] Sales history for How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps date, rank 08/10/2020, 3 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Jul 2020 UNITS SOLD: 73,233 YTD:	Jul 2020	73,233
4	The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America Richard Rothstein, Author Liveright Publishing Corporation, $17.95 (368) 978-1-63149-453-6 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 9 Initial Date 06/11/2018 Highest Rank 4 Highest Rank Date 07/06/2020 Average Rank 5.67 [details] Sales history for The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America date, rank 06/11/2018, 9 07/06/2020, 4 08/10/2020, 4 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: May 2018 UNITS SOLD: 58,754 YTD:	May 2018	58,754
5	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 11.98 [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 08/10/2020, 5 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Feb 2017 UNITS SOLD: 47,166 YTD:	Feb 2017	47,166
6	Blitz: Trump Will Smash the Left and Win David Horowitz, Author Humanix Books, $27.99 (272) 978-1-63006-138-8 Last rank 10 Initial Rank 15 Initial Date 06/22/2020 Highest Rank 6 Highest Rank Date 08/10/2020 Average Rank 10.73 [details] Sales history for Blitz: Trump Will Smash the Left and Win date, rank 07/06/2020, 8 08/10/2020, 6 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Jun 2020 UNITS SOLD: 42,664 YTD:	Jun 2020	42,664
7	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 13 Initial Rank 1 Initial Date 03/09/2020 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 03/09/2020 Average Rank 5.86 [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 06/08/2020, 1 07/06/2020, 5 08/10/2020, 7 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Feb 2020 UNITS SOLD: 37,948 YTD:	Feb 2020	37,948
8	Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World Chris Wallace, Author, Mitch Weiss, With Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, $30.00 (320) 978-1-9821-4334-3 Last rank 19 Initial Rank 4 Initial Date 06/22/2020 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 06/22/2020 Average Rank 8.38 [details] Sales history for Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World date, rank 07/06/2020, 2 08/10/2020, 8 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Jun 2020 UNITS SOLD: 35,521 YTD:	Jun 2020	35,521
9	The United States of Socialism Dinesh D'Souza, Author All Points Books, $29.99 (288) 978-1-250-16378-3 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 4 Initial Date 06/15/2020 Highest Rank 4 Highest Rank Date 06/15/2020 Average Rank 11.73 [details] Sales history for The United States of Socialism date, rank 07/06/2020, 6 08/10/2020, 9 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Jun 2020 UNITS SOLD: 24,552 YTD:	Jun 2020	24,552
10	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 8.39 [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 06/08/2020, 6 08/10/2020, 10 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: May 2018 UNITS SOLD: 16,142 YTD:	May 2018	16,142

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For the five-week period ending 8-1-2020.