June 21, 2023



Bestseller List for June 21, 2023
Based on sales for the week ending June 18, 2023
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  Trade Paperback Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. Love, Theoretically- Debut
Ali Hazelwood, Berkley, $17.00, 9780593336861
Rival physicists collide in a vortex of academic feuds and fake dating shenanigans in this delightfully STEMinist romcom. A June 2023 Indie Next Pick.
/1
2. Trust
Hernan Diaz, Riverhead Books, $17.00, 9780593420324
Diaz's book is an unparalleled novel about money, power, intimacy, and perception. A May 2022 Indie Next Pick and a winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
1/7
3. The Midnight Library
Matt Haig, Penguin, $18.00, 9780525559498
A dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived.
2/6
4. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Washington Square Press, $17.00, 9781501161933
Reid's novel is a mesmerizing journey through the splendor of old Hollywood into the harsh realities of the present day.
3/107
5. A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19.00, 9781635575569
From bestselling author Sarah J. Maas comes a seductive, breathtaking book that blends romance, adventure, and faerie lore into an unforgettable read.
7/40
6. Meet Me at the Lake
Carley Fortune, Berkley, $18.00, 9780593438558
A random connection sends two strangers on a daylong adventure where they make a promise one keeps and the other breaks, with life-changing effects. A May 2023 Indie Next Pick.
6/7
7. Beach Read
Emily Henry, Berkley, $16.00, 9781984806734
Henry's novel about a romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut is a June 2020 Indie Next Pick.
14/48
8. The Last Thing He Told Me
Laura Dave, S&S/Marysue Rucci Books, $17.99, 9781501171352
Dave's novel is a gripping mystery about a woman who thinks she's found the love of her life—until he disappears.
4/13
9. Carrie Soto Is Back
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine Books, $18.00, 9780593158708
Champion tennis player Carrie Soto comes out of retirement for one more grand slam.
11/2
10. The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller, Ecco, $17.99, 9780062060624
Miller's monumental debut novel is an action-packed adventure and epic love story that brilliantly re-imagines Homer's enduring masterwork, The Iliad.
8/146
11. It Ends with Us
Colleen Hoover, Atria, $16.99, 9781501110368
In Hoover's honest, evocative, and tender novel, a workaholic with a too-good-to-be-true romance can't stop thinking about her first love.
5/81
12. Fairy Tale
Stephen King, Scribner, $20.00, 9781668002193
King's spellbinding novel about a 17-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher—for that world or ours.
12/2
13. This Is How You Lose the Time War
Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone, Gallery/Saga Press, $16.99, 9781534430990
An enthralling, romantic novel spanning time and space about two time-traveling rivals who fall in love and must change the past to ensure their future.
15/5
14. Blood Meridian- Debut
Cormac McCarthy, Vintage, $17.00, 9780679728757
McCarthy's epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West.
/1
15. Daisy Jones & The Six
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine, $17.00, 9780593598429
A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous breakup.
10/44
 
     

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