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Rank	Last Week	Weeks on List	Bibliographical Information (Click title for review)	Pub Date	Units 2025 YTD
1	-	1	The Secret of Secrets Dan Brown, Author Doubleday Books, $38.00 (688) 978-0-385-54689-8 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 1 Initial Date 09/22/2025 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 09/22/2025 Average Rank 1.00 [details] Sales history for The Secret of Secrets date, rank 09/22/2025, 1 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Sep 2025 UNITS SOLD: 152,410 YTD: 152,410	Sep 2025	152,410 152,410
2	-	1	Wild Card (Standard Edition) Elsie Silver, Author Bloom Books, $18.99 978-1-4642-4786-6 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 2 Initial Date 09/22/2025 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 09/22/2025 Average Rank 1.50 [details] Sales history for Wild Card (Standard Edition) date, rank 09/22/2025, 2 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Sep 2025 UNITS SOLD: 52,666 YTD: 52,666	Sep 2025	52,666 52,666
3	-	1	The Unexpected Journey: Finding Strength, Hope, and Yourself on the Caregiving Path Emma Heming Willis, Author Open Field, $30.00 (272) 978-0-593-83394-0 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 3 Initial Date 09/22/2025 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 09/22/2025 Average Rank 2.00 [details] Sales history for The Unexpected Journey: Finding Strength, Hope, and Yourself on the Caregiving Path date, rank 09/22/2025, 3 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Sep 2025 UNITS SOLD: 29,455 YTD: 29,455	Sep 2025	29,455 29,455
4	5	38	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 2 Initial Rank 3 Initial Date 01/06/2025 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 01/06/2025 Average Rank 1.49 [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, 3 01/13/2025, 1 01/20/2025, 1 01/27/2025, 2 02/03/2025, 3 02/10/2025, 2 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, 2 04/07/2025, 2 04/14/2025, 3 04/21/2025, 3 04/28/2025, 2 05/05/2025, 3 05/12/2025, 2 05/19/2025, 2 05/26/2025, 1 06/02/2025, 4 06/09/2025, 2 06/16/2025, 1 06/23/2025, 2 06/30/2025, 1 07/07/2025, 1 07/14/2025, 1 07/21/2025, 1 07/28/2025, 1 08/04/2025, 1 08/11/2025, 1 08/18/2025, 2 08/25/2025, 1 09/01/2025, 3 09/08/2025, 3 09/15/2025, 5 09/22/2025, 4 LAST WEEK: 5 WEEKS ON LIST: 38 PUB DATE: Dec 2024 UNITS SOLD: 29,303 YTD: 2,152,150	Dec 2024	29,303 2,152,150
5	-	1	Confronting Evil: Assessing the Worst of the Worst Bill O'Reilly, Author, Josh Hammer, Author St. Martin's Press, $32.00 (304) 978-1-250-37404-2 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 5 Initial Date 09/22/2025 Highest Rank 3 Highest Rank Date 09/22/2025 Average Rank 4.00 [details] Sales history for Confronting Evil: Assessing the Worst of the Worst date, rank 09/22/2025, 5 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Sep 2025 UNITS SOLD: 27,213 YTD: 27,213	Sep 2025	27,213 27,213
6	-	1	All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation Elizabeth Gilbert, Author Riverhead Books, $35.00 (400) 978-0-593-54098-5 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 6 Initial Date 09/22/2025 Highest Rank 4 Highest Rank Date 09/22/2025 Average Rank 5.00 [details] Sales history for All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation date, rank 09/22/2025, 6 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Sep 2025 UNITS SOLD: 21,936 YTD: 21,936	Sep 2025	21,936 21,936
7	7	4	The Surrogate Mother Freida McFadden, Author Poisoned Pen Press, $17.99 (320) 978-1-4642-2730-1 Last rank 1 Initial Rank 2 Initial Date 09/01/2025 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 09/01/2025 Average Rank 2.88 [details] Sales history for The Surrogate Mother date, rank 09/01/2025, 2 09/08/2025, 2 09/15/2025, 7 09/22/2025, 7 LAST WEEK: 7 WEEKS ON LIST: 4 PUB DATE: Aug 2025 UNITS SOLD: 19,202 YTD: 134,129	Aug 2025	19,202 134,129
8	3	3	Katabasis (Deluxe Limited Edition) R F Kuang, Author Harper Voyager, $35.00 (560) 978-0-06-302147-1 Last rank 2 Initial Rank 1 Initial Date 09/08/2025 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 09/08/2025 Average Rank 2.83 [details] Sales history for Katabasis (Deluxe Limited Edition) date, rank 09/08/2025, 1 09/15/2025, 3 09/22/2025, 8 LAST WEEK: 3 WEEKS ON LIST: 3 PUB DATE: Aug 2025 UNITS SOLD: 16,590 YTD: 121,651	Aug 2025	16,590 121,651
9	15	4	Little Blue Truck's Halloween Alice Schertle, Author, Jill McElmurry, Illustrator HMH, $12.99 (16) 978-0-544-77253-3 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 13 Initial Date 07/18/2016 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 09/19/2016 Average Rank 4.31 [details] Sales history for Little Blue Truck's Halloween date, rank 09/19/2016, 8 09/26/2016, 5 10/03/2016, 7 10/10/2016, 8 10/26/2020, 10 09/13/2021, 7 09/20/2021, 8 09/27/2021, 9 10/04/2021, 10 10/11/2021, 8 10/18/2021, 10 10/25/2021, 7 09/08/2025, 6 09/22/2025, 9 LAST WEEK: 15 WEEKS ON LIST: 4 PUB DATE: Jul 2016 UNITS SOLD: 15,740 YTD: 62,890	Jul 2016	15,740 62,890
10	-	1	Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court and Constitution Amy Coney Barrett, Author Sentinel, $32.00 (304) 978-0-593-42186-4 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 10 Initial Date 09/22/2025 Highest Rank 5 Highest Rank Date 09/22/2025 Average Rank 7.50 [details] Sales history for Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court and Constitution date, rank 09/22/2025, 10 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Sep 2025 UNITS SOLD: 15,409 YTD: 15,409	Sep 2025	15,409 15,409

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Source: Circana BookScan, for the week ended Sept. 13, 2025; appearing in the Sept. 22, 2025, print edition of PW