May 4, 2022



Bestseller List for May 4, 2022
Based on sales for the week ending May 1, 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.
1/48
2. Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro, Vintage, $16.95, 9780593311295
Ishiguro offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator, and one that explores the fundamental question: What does it mean to love?
3/9
3. 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.
4/53
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.
2/23
5. 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.
5/87
6. Verity
Colleen Hoover, Grand Central, $16.99, 9781538724736
A sensational psychological thriller by the bestselling author of It Ends with Us.
6/12
7. 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.
7/107
8. The Paper Palace
Miranda Cowley Heller, Riverhead Books, $18.00, 9780593329832
In the course of a single day on Cape Cod, one woman must make a life-changing decision that has been brewing for decades.
8/2
9. Oh William!- Debut
Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $18.00, 9780812989441
Pulitzer Prize-winner Elizabeth Strout explores the mysteries of marriage and the secrets we keep, as a former couple reckons with where they've come from—and what they've left behind.
/1
10. 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.
10/68
11. The Lost Apothecary
Sarah Penner, Park Row, $17.99, 9780778311973
Penner's debut novel is a subversive and intoxicating story of secrets, vengeance, and the remarkable ways women can save each other despite the barrier of time.
14/10
12. 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.
9/47
13. 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.
12/16
14. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong, Penguin, $17.00, 9780525562047
Vuong's debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling.
13/19
15. Great Circle
Maggie Shipstead, Vintage, $18.00, 9781984897701
An unforgettable novel about a daredevil female aviator determined to chart her own course in life at any cost.
11/4


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