Unit sales of print books fell 17.1% in the week ended Nov. 12, 2022, from the comparable week in 2021, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. All six categories had declines, with the largest coming in juvenile nonfiction, where sales fell 25.1%. Adult nonfiction had a 20.4% decline. The #1 book in the category was Matthew Perry’s Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing, which sold almost 35,000 copies. Last year at this time, Will by Will Smith was #1, selling just under 85,000 copies. The top-performing new release was Good Boundaries and Goodbyes by Lysa TerKeurst, which sold more than 30,000 copies. Juvenile fiction sales also fell by just over 20%. Jeff Kinney’s newest Diary of a Wimpy Kid book, Diper Överlöde, once again was #1 in the category, selling more than 87,000 copies; a year ago, his Big Shot was tops in the category, selling about 113,000 copies. For the second week in a row, adult fiction had a sales decline, albeit a small one of 0.7%. Colleen Hoover did her best to hold up sales with her It Starts with Us and It Ends with Us running one-two in the category, selling about 119,000 and 60,000 copies, respectively. Last year the #1 title in the week was The Stranger in the Lifeboat by Mitch Albom, which sold about 57,000 copies. Young adult fiction sales slipped 3.5%, despite good showings for several new titles. Charm by Tracy Wolff was #1, selling almost 23,000 copies in its first week.