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Rank	Bibliographical Information (Click title for review)	Pub Date	Units
1	Vendetta in Death: An Eve Dallas Novel (in Death, Book 49) J D Robb, Author St. Martin's Press, $28.99 (368) 978-1-250-20717-3 Last rank 10 Initial Rank 2 Initial Date 09/16/2019 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 10/07/2019 Average Rank 7.14 [details] Sales history for Vendetta in Death: An Eve Dallas Novel (in Death, Book 49) date, rank 10/07/2019, 1 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Sep 2019 UNITS SOLD: 48,117 YTD:	Sep 2019	48,117
2	Look Alive Twenty-Five: A Stephanie Plum Novel Janet Evanovich, Author G.P. Putnam's Sons, $9.99 (336) 978-0-399-17924-2 Last rank 5 Initial Rank 1 Initial Date 09/16/2019 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 09/16/2019 Average Rank 3.00 [details] Sales history for Look Alive Twenty-Five: A Stephanie Plum Novel date, rank 10/07/2019, 2 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Sep 2019 UNITS SOLD: 43,887 YTD:	Sep 2019	43,887
3	The Girl Who Lived Twice: A Lisbeth Salander Novel, Continuing Stieg Larsson's Millennium Series David Lagercrantz, Author Knopf Publishing Group, $27.95 (416) 978-0-451-49434-4 Last rank 12 Initial Rank 5 Initial Date 09/09/2019 Highest Rank 2 Highest Rank Date 09/09/2019 Average Rank 7.00 [details] Sales history for The Girl Who Lived Twice: A Lisbeth Salander Novel, Continuing Stieg Larsson's Millennium Series date, rank 09/09/2019, 6 10/07/2019, 3 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Aug 2019 UNITS SOLD: 39,524 YTD:	Aug 2019	39,524
4	Killer Instinct James Patterson, Author, Howard Roughan, With Little Brown and Company, $28.00 (400) 978-0-316-42029-7 Last rank 11 Initial Rank 4 Initial Date 09/23/2019 Highest Rank 4 Highest Rank Date 09/23/2019 Average Rank 8.00 [details] Sales history for Killer Instinct date, rank 10/07/2019, 4 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Sep 2019 UNITS SOLD: 38,345 YTD:	Sep 2019	38,345
5	A Better Man: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel Louise Penny, Author Minotaur Books, $28.99 (400) 978-1-250-06621-3 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 2 Initial Date 09/09/2019 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 09/09/2019 Average Rank 7.00 [details] Sales history for A Better Man: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel date, rank 09/09/2019, 1 10/07/2019, 5 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Aug 2019 UNITS SOLD: 28,397 YTD:	Aug 2019	28,397
6	Land of Wolves Craig Johnson, Author Viking, $28.00 (336) 978-0-525-52250-8 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 4 Initial Date 09/30/2019 Highest Rank 4 Highest Rank Date 09/30/2019 Average Rank 10.67 [details] Sales history for Land of Wolves date, rank 10/07/2019, 6 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Sep 2019 UNITS SOLD: 16,481 YTD:	Sep 2019	16,481
7	Connections in Death: An Eve Dallas Novel (in Death, Book 48) J D Robb, Author St. Martin's Press, $8.99 (416) 978-1-250-30815-3 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 3 Initial Date 08/12/2019 Highest Rank 3 Highest Rank Date 08/12/2019 Average Rank 8.18 [details] Sales history for Connections in Death: An Eve Dallas Novel (in Death, Book 48) date, rank 08/12/2019, 7 09/09/2019, 3 10/07/2019, 7 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Jul 2019 UNITS SOLD: 13,495 YTD:	Jul 2019	13,495
8	The Bitterroots C J Box, Author Minotaur Books, $27.99 (320) 978-1-250-05105-9 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 5 Initial Date 08/26/2019 Highest Rank 2 Highest Rank Date 09/09/2019 Average Rank 10.78 [details] Sales history for The Bitterroots date, rank 09/09/2019, 2 10/07/2019, 8 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Aug 2019 UNITS SOLD: 12,770 YTD:	Aug 2019	12,770
9	Holy Ghost John Sandford, Author G.P. Putnam's Sons, $9.99 (432) 978-0-7352-1734-8 Last rank 1 Initial Rank 1 Initial Date 10/07/2019 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 10/07/2019 Average Rank 3.25 [details] Sales history for Holy Ghost date, rank 10/07/2019, 9 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Sep 2019 UNITS SOLD: 10,862 YTD:	Sep 2019	10,862
10	The Last Widow Karin Slaughter, Author William Morrow & Company, $27.99 (400) 978-0-06-285808-5 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 4 Initial Date 09/02/2019 Highest Rank 4 Highest Rank Date 09/02/2019 Average Rank 11.40 [details] Sales history for The Last Widow date, rank 09/09/2019, 7 10/07/2019, 10 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Aug 2019 UNITS SOLD: 8,834 YTD:	Aug 2019	8,834

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For the four-week period ended 9/28/19. Note: NPD BookScan flagged What It Takes, #5 in Biography & Memoir, for significant bulk sales during at least one week of the Sept. 1–28 time period.