Rankings reflect sales for the week ended July 20, which were reported on a confidential basis by vendors offering a wide range of general interest titles. Every week, thousands of diverse selling locations report their actual sales on hundreds of thousands of individual titles. The panel of reporting retailers is comprehensive and reflects sales in stores of all sizes and demographics across the United States.
An asterisk (*) indicates that a book’s sales were barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A (b) indicates that some bookstores reported receiving bulk orders. ___ 1.
THE WOMEN, by Kristin Hannah. (St. Martin’s) In 1965, a nursing student follows her brother to serve during the Vietnam War and returns to a divided America.
LAST WEEK: 2 WEEKS ON LIST: 24 2. THE BLACK BIRD ORACLE, by Deborah Harkness. (Ballantine) The fifth book in the All Souls series.
Diana faces her family’s dark past and determines to forge a different future. LAST WEEK: — WEEKS ON LIST: 1 3. SWAN SONG, by Elin Hilderbrand.
(Little, Brown) Nantucket residents are alarmed when a home, recently sold at an exorbitant price, goes up in flames and someone goes missing. LAST WEEK: 4 WEEKS ON LIST: 6 4. FOURTH WING, by Rebecca Yarros.
(Red Tower) Violet Sorrengail is urged by the commanding general, who also is her mother, to become a candidate for the elite dragon riders. LAST WEEK: 5 WEEKS ON LIST: 63 5. ERUPTION, by Michael Crichton and James Patterson.
(Little, Brown) The Big Island.