Carry On

Inaugural poet Amanda Gorman has the #1 book in the country with her first collection of verse, Call Us What We Carry. Our review said the volume “goes beyond the inauguration poem to consider the larger role of history, struggle, and hope in American lives.” This is Gorman’s third title to pub this year: The Hill We Climb, a bound edition of her inaugural poem, has sold 530K print copies since its April release, and Change Sings, a picture book illustrated by Loren Long, pubbed in September and has sold 264K print copies.

In Clubland

The latest Reese’s Book Club pick, Lucky by Marissa Stapley, debuts at #17 on our trade paperback list. PW’s review explained the premise—“A criminal with a winning lottery ticket scrambles to elude arrest in this thrilling adventure”—calling the book a “page-turner [that] packs in more than its share of heart.” Stapley’s the author of three previous novels (plus a fourth, The Holiday Swap, coauthored with Karma Brown under the name Maggie Knox).

Peak Performance

Jimmy Chin, a professional climber and the Oscar-winning codirector of 2018’s Free Solo, lands at #8 on our hardcover nonfiction list with There and Back. For the book, his debut, Chin culled photos from nearly 20 years of globe-trotting expeditions, beginning with his first, a trip to Pakistan’s Ckarakusa Valley in 1999. Some three million people follow the National Geographic photographer on Instagram.

NEW & NOTABLE

FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS
Kayleigh McEnany
#4 Hardcover Nonfiction, #6 overall
McEnany, who served as White House press secretary in the Trump administration and now is a cohost of Outnumbered on Fox News, recounts her “faith journey through the White House and beyond.”

THE BLUE ZONES CHALLENGE
Dan Buettner
#5 Trade Paperback
This four-week lifestyle reset plan from National Geographic Fellow Buettner—a Guinness World Record holder in distance cycling—is a companion to 2019’s The Blue Zones Kitchen, which has sold 289K copies in hardcover.