The shift in Easter book buying this year favored the publishing industry in the week ended Apr. 9, 2022 (Easter was April 4 last year, compared to April 17 this year), resulting in a 10.2% increase in unit sales of print books over the comparable week in 2021 at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. The children’s category led the increase, with fiction sales up 38.2% and nonfiction sales rising 26.7%. In fiction, the #1 title in the category was Tui T. Sutherland’s The Flames of Hope (Wings of Fire, Vol. 15), which sold just under 80,000 copies in its first week. The remainder of the top 10 titles had an Easter bent, including Adam Wallace’s How to Catch the Easter Bunny, which sold nearly 45,000 copies, putting it in second place on the category list. In juvenile nonfiction, I Color Myself Different by Colin Kaepernick took the top spot, selling almost 9,000 copies in its first week. Adult fiction sales increased 8.3% over 2021. Two new graphic novels published by Viz Media led the gains. Chainsaw Man, Vol. 10 by Tatsuki Fujimoto was #1, selling nearly 44,000 copies, while Gege Akutami’s Jujutsu Kaisen, Vol. 15 was in second place on the category list, selling more than 30,000 copies. Adult nonfiction sales fell 4.3% in the week. A year ago, Amanda Gorman’s The Hill We Climb sold more than 42,000 copies in its second week. In the most recent week, the #1 title was The Mothers and Daughters of the Bible Speak by Shannon Bream, which sold nearly 31,000 copies.