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Rank	Last Week	Weeks on List	Bibliographical Information (Click title for review)	Pub Date	Units 2025 YTD
1	1	1	The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can't Stop Talking about Mel Robbins, Author Hay House LLC, $29.99 (336) 978-1-4019-7136-6 Last rank 1 Initial Rank 3 Initial Date 01/06/2025 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 01/06/2025 Average Rank 1.46 [details] Sales history for The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can't Stop Talking about date, rank 01/06/2025, 1 01/13/2025, 1 01/20/2025, 1 01/27/2025, 1 02/03/2025, 1 02/10/2025, 1 02/17/2025, 1 02/24/2025, 1 03/03/2025, 1 03/10/2025, 1 03/17/2025, 1 03/24/2025, 1 03/31/2025, 1 04/07/2025, 1 04/14/2025, 1 04/21/2025, 1 04/28/2025, 1 05/05/2025, 1 05/12/2025, 1 05/19/2025, 1 05/26/2025, 1 06/02/2025, 2 06/09/2025, 1 06/16/2025, 1 LAST WEEK: 1 WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Dec 2024 UNITS SOLD: 47,129 YTD: 283,639	Dec 2024	47,129 283,639
2	-	1	Principles: Investment and Economic Ray Dalio, Author Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, $35.00 (592) 978-1-5011-2406-8 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Jun 2025 UNITS SOLD: 12,846 YTD: 12,846	Jun 2025	12,846 12,846
3	-	1	This Dog Will Change Your Life Elias Weiss Friedman, Author Ballantine Books, $28.00 (256) 978-0-593-87207-9 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Jun 2025 UNITS SOLD: 11,427 YTD: 11,427	Jun 2025	11,427 11,427
4	16	1	The Good Dad Guide: Be the Best Dad You Can Be--In 1 Hour James Patterson, Author Little Brown and Company, $25.00 (128) 978-0-316-58507-1 Last rank 16 Initial Rank 5 Initial Date 05/26/2025 Highest Rank 4 Highest Rank Date 06/16/2025 Average Rank 7.50 [details] Sales history for The Good Dad Guide: Be the Best Dad You Can Be--In 1 Hour date, rank 05/26/2025, 5 06/02/2025, 16 06/09/2025, 5 06/16/2025, 4 LAST WEEK: 16 WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: May 2025 UNITS SOLD: 10,179 YTD: 31,135	May 2025	10,179 31,135
5	2	1	Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again Jake Tapper, Author, Alex Thompson, Author Penguin Press, $32.00 (352) 979-8-217-06067-2 Last rank 2 Initial Rank 3 Initial Date 06/02/2025 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 06/02/2025 Average Rank 2.75 [details] Sales history for Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again date, rank 06/02/2025, 1 06/09/2025, 2 06/16/2025, 5 LAST WEEK: 2 WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: May 2025 UNITS SOLD: 9,310 YTD: 79,641	May 2025	9,310 79,641
6	-	1	So Gay for You: Friendship, Found Family, and the Show That Started It All Katherine Moennig, Author, Leisha Hailey, Author St. Martin's Press, $32.00 (320) 978-1-250-36136-3 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Jun 2025 UNITS SOLD: 7,179 YTD: 7,179	Jun 2025	7,179 7,179
7	12	1	The Wishbone Kitchen Cookbook: Seasonal Recipes for Everyday Luxury and Elevated Entertaining Meredith Hayden, Author Ten Speed Press, $35.00 (288) 978-0-593-83595-1 Last rank 12 Initial Rank 5 Initial Date 05/19/2025 Highest Rank 2 Highest Rank Date 05/19/2025 Average Rank 7.50 [details] Sales history for The Wishbone Kitchen Cookbook: Seasonal Recipes for Everyday Luxury and Elevated Entertaining date, rank 05/19/2025, 2 05/26/2025, 7 06/02/2025, 12 06/09/2025, 12 06/16/2025, 7 LAST WEEK: 12 WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: May 2025 UNITS SOLD: 6,850 YTD: 69,563	May 2025	6,850 69,563
8	-	1	Free Ride: Heartbreak, Courage, and the 20,000-Mile Motorcycle Journey That Changed My Life Noraly Schoenmaker, Author Atria Books, $29.99 (288) 978-1-6680-9249-1 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Jun 2025 UNITS SOLD: 6,429 YTD: 6,429	Jun 2025	6,429 6,429
9	4	1	Don't Believe Everything You Think (Expanded Edition): Why Your Thinking Is the Beginning & End of Suffering Joseph Nguyen, Author Authors Equity, $22.00 (192) 979-8-89331-015-3 Last rank 4 Initial Rank 15 Initial Date 11/11/2024 Highest Rank 4 Highest Rank Date 06/09/2025 Average Rank 12.07 [details] Sales history for Don't Believe Everything You Think (Expanded Edition): Why Your Thinking Is the Beginning & End of Suffering date, rank 11/11/2024, 15 12/02/2024, 24 12/09/2024, 21 12/16/2024, 20 12/23/2024, 19 12/30/2024, 19 01/06/2025, 17 01/13/2025, 7 01/20/2025, 7 01/27/2025, 10 02/03/2025, 12 02/10/2025, 13 02/17/2025, 11 02/24/2025, 8 03/03/2025, 7 03/10/2025, 7 03/17/2025, 13 03/24/2025, 11 03/31/2025, 15 04/07/2025, 10 04/14/2025, 11 04/21/2025, 16 04/28/2025, 14 05/05/2025, 7 05/12/2025, 9 05/19/2025, 10 05/26/2025, 8 06/02/2025, 8 06/09/2025, 4 06/16/2025, 9 LAST WEEK: 4 WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Oct 2024 UNITS SOLD: 6,103 YTD: 36,903	Oct 2024	6,103 36,903
10	8	1	Mark Twain Ron Chernow, Author Penguin Press, $45.00 (1200) 978-0-525-56172-9 Last rank 8 Initial Rank 2 Initial Date 05/26/2025 Highest Rank 2 Highest Rank Date 05/26/2025 Average Rank 6.50 [details] Sales history for Mark Twain date, rank 05/26/2025, 2 06/02/2025, 6 06/09/2025, 8 06/16/2025, 10 LAST WEEK: 8 WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: May 2025 UNITS SOLD: 5,855 YTD: 39,775	May 2025	5,855 39,775
11	6	1	We Can Do Hard Things: Answers to Life's 20 Questions Glennon Doyle, Author, Abby Wambach, Author, Amanda Doyle, Author Dial Press, $32.00 (496) 978-0-593-97764-4 Last rank 6 Initial Rank 8 Initial Date 05/19/2025 Highest Rank 3 Highest Rank Date 05/19/2025 Average Rank 6.17 [details] Sales history for We Can Do Hard Things: Answers to Life's 20 Questions date, rank 05/19/2025, 3 05/26/2025, 4 06/02/2025, 5 06/09/2025, 6 06/16/2025, 11 LAST WEEK: 6 WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: May 2025 UNITS SOLD: 5,140 YTD: 66,006	May 2025	5,140 66,006
12	-	1	How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir Molly Jong-Fast, Author Viking, $28.00 (256) 978-0-593-65647-1 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Jun 2025 UNITS SOLD: 5,030 YTD: 5,030	Jun 2025	5,030 5,030
13	-	1	God Was Right: How Modern Social Science Proves the Torah Is True Mark Gerson, Author Benbella Books, $39.95 (700) 978-1-63774-617-2 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Jun 2025 UNITS SOLD: 5,015 YTD: 5,015	Jun 2025	5,015 5,015
14	-	1	The Disenlightenment: Politics, Horror, and Entertainment David Mamet, Author Broadside Books, $32.99 (256) 978-0-06-345509-2 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Jun 2025 UNITS SOLD: 4,923 YTD: 4,923	Jun 2025	4,923 4,923
15	11	1	Abundance Ezra Klein, Author, Derek Thompson, Author Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, $30.00 (304) 978-1-6680-2348-8 Last rank 11 Initial Rank 5 Initial Date 03/31/2025 Highest Rank 4 Highest Rank Date 04/07/2025 Average Rank 10.08 [details] Sales history for Abundance date, rank 03/31/2025, 5 04/07/2025, 4 04/14/2025, 6 04/21/2025, 11 04/28/2025, 8 05/05/2025, 8 05/12/2025, 11 05/19/2025, 16 05/26/2025, 16 06/02/2025, 13 06/09/2025, 11 06/16/2025, 15 LAST WEEK: 11 WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Mar 2025 UNITS SOLD: 4,811 YTD: 23,760	Mar 2025	4,811 23,760
16	10	1	Big Dumb Eyes: Stories from a Simpler Mind Nate Bargatze, Author Grand Central Publishing, $30.00 (240) 978-1-5387-6846-4 Last rank 10 Initial Rank 4 Initial Date 05/19/2025 Highest Rank 4 Highest Rank Date 05/19/2025 Average Rank 10.00 [details] Sales history for Big Dumb Eyes: Stories from a Simpler Mind date, rank 05/19/2025, 4 05/26/2025, 9 06/02/2025, 11 06/09/2025, 10 06/16/2025, 16 LAST WEEK: 10 WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: May 2025 UNITS SOLD: 4,237 YTD: 50,091	May 2025	4,237 50,091
17	-	1	Unfolded: Lessons in Transformation from an Origami Crane Brian Schubring, Author, Linda Schubring, Author Wiley, $24.00 (144) 978-1-394-33809-2 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Jun 2025 UNITS SOLD: 4,020 YTD: 4,020	Jun 2025	4,020 4,020
18	-	1	A Clean Mess: A Memoir of Sobriety After a Lifetime of Being Numb Tiffany Jenkins, Author Harmony, $26.99 (304) 978-0-593-23263-7 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Jun 2025 UNITS SOLD: 3,691 YTD: 3,691	Jun 2025	3,691 3,691
19	-	1	Out of the Wilderness: 31 Devotions to Walk with God Through Your Hardest Seasons: A Devotional Angela Halili, Author, Arielle Reitsma, Author Waterbrook Press, $20.00 (208) 978-0-593-60258-4 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Jun 2025 UNITS SOLD: 3,657 YTD: 3,657	Jun 2025	3,657 3,657
20	16	1	On Character: Choices That Define a Life Stanley McChrystal, Author Portfolio, $30.00 (304) 978-0-593-85295-8 Last rank 16 Initial Rank 12 Initial Date 05/26/2025 Highest Rank 10 Highest Rank Date 06/02/2025 Average Rank 14.50 [details] Sales history for On Character: Choices That Define a Life date, rank 05/26/2025, 12 06/02/2025, 10 06/09/2025, 16 06/16/2025, 20 LAST WEEK: 16 WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: May 2025 UNITS SOLD: 3,578 YTD: 19,131	May 2025	3,578 19,131
21	-	1	Amplify: How to Use the Power of Connection to Engage, Take Action, and Build a Better World Adam Met, Author, Heather Landy, Author Harmony, $28.00 (208) 978-0-593-73590-9 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Jun 2025 UNITS SOLD: 3,129 YTD: 3,129	Jun 2025	3,129 3,129
22	35	1	Make Magic: The Book of Inspiration You Didn't Know You Needed Brad Meltzer, Author William Morrow & Company, $14.99 (112) 978-0-06-344071-5 Last rank 35 Initial Rank 11 Initial Date 03/17/2025 Highest Rank 11 Highest Rank Date 03/17/2025 Average Rank 15.00 [details] Sales history for Make Magic: The Book of Inspiration You Didn't Know You Needed date, rank 03/17/2025, 11 03/24/2025, 12 06/16/2025, 22 LAST WEEK: 35 WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Mar 2025 UNITS SOLD: 3,099 YTD: 8,110	Mar 2025	3,099 8,110
23	-	1	Lincoln's Lady Spymaster: The Untold Story of the Abolitionist Southern Belle Who Helped Win the Civil War Gerri Willis, Author Harper, $28.99 (256) 978-0-06-333365-9 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Jun 2025 UNITS SOLD: 3,072 YTD: 3,072	Jun 2025	3,072 3,072
24	20	1	The Next Conversation: Argue Less, Talk More Jefferson Fisher, Author Tarcher, $30.00 (304) 978-0-593-71872-8 Last rank 20 Initial Rank 2 Initial Date 03/31/2025 Highest Rank 2 Highest Rank Date 03/31/2025 Average Rank 13.25 [details] Sales history for The Next Conversation: Argue Less, Talk More date, rank 03/31/2025, 2 04/07/2025, 6 04/14/2025, 7 04/21/2025, 13 04/28/2025, 12 05/12/2025, 14 05/19/2025, 24 05/26/2025, 15 06/02/2025, 19 06/09/2025, 20 06/16/2025, 24 LAST WEEK: 20 WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Mar 2025 UNITS SOLD: 3,067 YTD: 19,795	Mar 2025	3,067 19,795
25	3	1	Baking Across America: A Vintage Recipe Road Trip B Dylan Hollis, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley), $35.00 (304) 978-0-7440-9760-3 Last rank 3 Initial Rank 3 Initial Date 06/02/2025 Highest Rank 3 Highest Rank Date 06/02/2025 Average Rank 10.33 [details] Sales history for Baking Across America: A Vintage Recipe Road Trip date, rank 06/02/2025, 3 06/09/2025, 3 06/16/2025, 25 LAST WEEK: 3 WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: May 2025 UNITS SOLD: 3,057 YTD: 28,415	May 2025	3,057 28,415

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Source: Circana BookScan, for the week ended June 7, 2025; appearing in the June 16, 2025, print edition of PW