February 23, 2022



Bestseller List for February 23, 2022
Based on sales for the week ending February 20, 2022
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  Trade Paperback Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. 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.
1/38
2. The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller, Ecco, $16.99, 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.
3/77
3. The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett, Riverhead Books, $18.00, 9780525536963
Bennett's beautiful novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one Black and one white.
2/3
4. 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.
5/13
5. Circe
Madeline Miller, Back Bay, $16.99, 9780316556323
The masterful follow-up to The Song of Achilles is a triumph of storytelling, an intoxicating epic of family rivalry, palace intrigue, love and loss, as well as a celebration of indomitable female strength in a man's world.
6/97
6. People We Meet on Vacation
Emily Henry, Berkley, $16.00, 9781984806758
Henry's sparkling new novel will leave you with the warm, hazy afterglow usually reserved for the best vacations. A May 2021 Indie Next Pick.
7/37
7. The House in the Cerulean Sea
TJ Klune, Tor, $18.99, 9781250217318
Klune's novel is an enchanting love story, masterfully told, about the profound experience of discovering an unlikely family in an unexpected place.
4/58
8. Verity
Colleen Hoover, Grand Central, $16.99, 9781538724736
A sensational psychological thriller by the bestselling author of It Ends With Us.
10/2
9. The Love Hypothesis
Ali Hazelwood, Berkley, $16.00, 9780593336823
When a fake relationship between scientists meets the irresistible force of attraction, it throws one woman's carefully calculated theories on love into chaos. A September 2021 Indie Next Pick.
8/6
10. The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman, Penguin, $17.00, 9781984880987
In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves the Thursday Murder Club.
9/27
11. Anxious People
Fredrik Backman, Washington Square Press, $17.00, 9781501160844
An ingeniously constructed novel about the enduring power of friendship, forgiveness, and hope—the things that save us, even in the most anxious times.
11/33
12. A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles, Penguin, $18.00, 9780143110439
Towles' transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel.
/94
13. The Night Watchman
Louise Erdrich, Harper Perennial, $18.00, 9780062671196
Erdrich's novel is based on the extraordinary life of her grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C.
14/42
14. The Silent Patient
Alex Michaelides, Celadon Books, $17.99, 9781250301703
A gripping psychological thriller about a woman's act of violence against her husband—and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive.
/25
15. Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens, Putnam, $18.00, 9780735219106
Where the Crawdads Sing is at once an exquisite ode to the natural world, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story, and a surprising tale of possible murder.
15/44
ON THE RISE
18. No One Is Talking About This
Patricia Lockwood, Riverhead Books, $17.00, 9780593189597
At once a love letter to the endless scroll and a profound modern meditation on love, language, and human connection from a singular voice in American literature.
 


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