Years of the Dog
Dav Pilkey was already a success, thanks to his Captain Underpants middle grade series, when he introduced the half-canine crime fighter Dog Man in 2016. With the release of book eight, Fetch-22, Pilkey again claims his position as leader of the pack. It’s the #1 book in the country—the previous Dog Man installment, For Whom the Ball Rolls, is #6—and Pilkey is PW’s person of the year.

Gutsy Reactions
In the second full week of the holiday shopping season, a trio of books with different angles on female bravery show some of the biggest gains in print unit sales.

Raina Telgemeier’s graphic memoir Guts, #8 in the country, is a profile in grade-school courage. Print unit sales are the strongest since the book debuted at #1 in the country in September.

The Book of Gutsy Women, a collection of stories about people whom the authors, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton, find inspirational, moves up eight positions to #8 in hardcover nonfiction, with its best print unit sales since its first week on sale in October.

Greta Thunberg’s No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference, a rallying cry for climate activism, jumps 11 positions to #3 in trade paper, with its best sales week yet.

TV Watch
In May, DC released a new edition of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’s seminal comics series Watchmen, ahead of the first season of an HBO adaptation. After the TV series began airing in October, weekly print unit sales, which had held steady in the hundreds of copies a week, began trending upward.

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Colleen Hoover
#15 Trade Paper
“Betrayals, secrets, and shifting family loyalties keep the pages turning in this excellent contemporary” romance, our starred review said. “This is Hoover at her very best.”