You’re Hired

Two books on the 45th president of the United States debut this week in hardcover nonfiction. At #15, Big Agenda by David Horowitz has garnered praise from Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, Peter Schweizer, Dinesh D’Souza, and Milo Yiannopoulis. Two notches below: The Making of the President 2016 by Roger Stone. Breitbart has called Stone “one of the best known—and best dressed—political insiders in New York.” President Trump has described him this way: “Roger’s a good guy. He is a patriot and believes in a strong nation, and a lot of the things that I believe in.”

(See all of this week's bestselling books.)

Proof of Concept

The week’s biggest hardcover nonfiction debut, at #7, is the faith-based Nothing to Prove by Jennie Allen. It’s her first new trade title since launching If:Gathering, a Christian women’s conference, in 2014, and her strongest first-week showing yet. More than a million women in more than 120 countries viewed the live webcast of the 2016 If:Gathering, according to her publisher; this year’s conference was held February 3 and 4, the weekend after her new book published.

Staying Psyched

The reading public’s appetite for books with keep-’em-guessing plots à la Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train remains unsated, with two such titles debuting on our hardcover fiction list. At #18, British author Jane Corry’s U.S. debut, My Husband’s Wife, is “devilishly devious,” according to our review. We also praised Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough, #22, calling it a “twisty psychological thriller.” These follow The Girl Before by J.P. Delaney, which in its second week on our list is up 21% and one position, to #4.

Under Her Spell

BEA 2016 YA buzz pick Caraval by Stephanie Garber, which our starred review called “magnificent,” lands at #8 in children’s frontlist fiction; 20th Century Fox nabbed film rights to the fantasy novel in 2015. It’s the debut list appearance for the author and for Flatiron’s YA program, which launched last year with two titles.

The Book That’s Sweeping Oceania

For the second week in a row, George Orwell’s 1984 is the #1 book in the country. Print unit sales for the mass market edition are up 34% from the previous week, and the book not only claims the top spot nationwide but was also the bestselling title in each of BookScan’s eight geographic regions.

Top 10 Overall

Rank Title Author Imprint Units
1 1984 George Orwell Signet Classics 34,793
2 Hidden Figures (movie tie-in) Margot Lee Shetterly Morrow 22,738
3 A Man Called Ove Fredrik Backman Washington Square 21,463
4 The Apartment Danielle Steel Dell 19,363
5 A Dog’s Purpose (movie tie-in) W. Bruce Cameron Forge 19,163
6 Hillbilly Elegy J.D. Vance Harper 18,786
7 Double Down (Wimpy Kid #11) Jeff Kinney Amulet 17,139
8 Killing the Rising Sun O’Reilly/Dugard Holt 16,153
9 Milk and Honey Rupi Kaur Andrews McMeel 15,760
10 Never Never Patterson/Fox Little, Brown 14,841

All unit sales per Nielsen BookScan except where noted.