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Rank	Bibliographical Information (Click title for review)	Pub Date	Units
1	Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House Michael Wolff, Author Henry Holt & Company, $30.00 (336) 978-1-250-15806-2 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 1 Initial Date 01/15/2018 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 01/15/2018 Average Rank 3.41 [details] Sales history for Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House date, rank 02/05/2018, 1 03/12/2018, 1 04/02/2018, 2 04/09/2018, 2 05/07/2018, 6 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Jan 2018 UNITS SOLD: 139,694 YTD:	Jan 2018	139,694
2	Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI David Grann, Author Doubleday Books, $29.95 (352) 978-0-385-53424-6 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 5 Initial Date 05/01/2017 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 06/05/2017 Average Rank 11.93 [details] Sales history for Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI date, rank 05/08/2017, 9 06/05/2017, 1 07/10/2017, 4 08/07/2017, 8 09/04/2017, 5 10/09/2017, 7 12/11/2017, 7 02/05/2018, 8 03/12/2018, 2 04/02/2018, 5 04/09/2018, 5 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Apr 2017 UNITS SOLD: 17,294 YTD:	Apr 2017	17,294
3	Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016 Steve Coll, Author Penguin Press, $35.00 (784) 978-1-59420-458-6 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 8 Initial Date 02/19/2018 Highest Rank 3 Highest Rank Date 03/12/2018 Average Rank 8.67 [details] Sales history for Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016 date, rank 03/12/2018, 3 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Feb 2018 UNITS SOLD: 15,685 YTD:	Feb 2018	15,685
4	12 Strong: The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers Doug Stanton, Author Scribner Book Company, $18.00 (432) 978-1-5011-7851-1 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 17 Initial Date 01/29/2018 Highest Rank 4 Highest Rank Date 03/12/2018 Average Rank 11.80 [details] Sales history for 12 Strong: The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers date, rank 02/05/2018, 6 03/12/2018, 4 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Dec 2017 UNITS SOLD: 15,296 YTD:	Dec 2017	15,296
5	How Democracies Die Steven Levitsky, Author, Daniel Ziblatt, Author Crown Publishing Group (NY), $26.00 (320) 978-1-5247-6293-3 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 18 Initial Date 01/29/2018 Highest Rank 5 Highest Rank Date 03/12/2018 Average Rank 17.25 [details] Sales history for How Democracies Die date, rank 03/12/2018, 5 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Jan 2018 UNITS SOLD: 13,576 YTD:	Jan 2018	13,576
6	Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence Bill O'Reilly, Author, Martin Dugard, Author Henry Holt & Company, $30.00 (352) 978-1-62779-064-2 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 2 Initial Date 10/02/2017 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 10/09/2017 Average Rank 6.67 [details] Sales history for Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence date, rank 10/09/2017, 1 11/06/2017, 1 12/11/2017, 1 02/05/2018, 5 03/12/2018, 6 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Sep 2017 UNITS SOLD: 12,722 YTD:	Sep 2017	12,722
7	The Devil in the White City Erik Larson, Author Vintage, 978-0-375-72560-9 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 6 Initial Date 08/11/2014 Highest Rank 2 Highest Rank Date 04/20/2015 Average Rank 6.90 [details] Sales history for The Devil in the White City date, rank 08/11/2014, 6 09/08/2014, 7 02/09/2015, 8 03/09/2015, 4 04/20/2015, 2 05/11/2015, 5 07/13/2015, 7 08/10/2015, 5 09/14/2015, 3 10/12/2015, 9 11/09/2015, 10 12/14/2015, 10 01/11/2016, 7 02/08/2016, 7 03/07/2016, 5 04/11/2016, 6 05/09/2016, 4 07/11/2016, 8 08/08/2016, 7 09/05/2016, 10 01/09/2017, 6 02/13/2017, 9 09/04/2017, 8 10/09/2017, 10 02/05/2018, 9 03/12/2018, 7 04/02/2018, 6 04/09/2018, 6 07/16/2018, 9 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Feb 2004 UNITS SOLD: 12,219 YTD:	Feb 2004	12,219
8	Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans: The Battle That Shaped America's Destiny Brian Kilmeade, Author, Don Yaeger, Author Sentinel, $28.00 (288) 978-0-7352-1323-4 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 7 Initial Date 11/06/2017 Highest Rank 2 Highest Rank Date 11/06/2017 Average Rank 9.95 [details] Sales history for Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans: The Battle That Shaped America's Destiny date, rank 11/06/2017, 2 12/11/2017, 2 02/05/2018, 2 03/12/2018, 8 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Oct 2017 UNITS SOLD: 11,923 YTD:	Oct 2017	11,923
9	12 Strong: The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers Doug Stanton, Author Pocket Books, $9.99 (576) 978-1-5011-7995-2 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 13 Initial Date 01/01/2018 Highest Rank 4 Highest Rank Date 02/05/2018 Average Rank 13.30 [details] Sales history for 12 Strong: The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers date, rank 02/05/2018, 4 03/12/2018, 9 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Dec 2017 UNITS SOLD: 11,646 YTD:	Dec 2017	11,646
10	It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America David Cay Johnston, Author Simon & Schuster, $28.00 (320) 978-1-5011-7416-2 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 2 Initial Date 01/29/2018 Highest Rank 2 Highest Rank Date 01/29/2018 Average Rank 10.20 [details] Sales history for It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America date, rank 02/05/2018, 7 03/12/2018, 10 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Jan 2018 UNITS SOLD: 11,533 YTD:	Jan 2018	11,533

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For the 4-week period ended 12-30-23

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