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The #10 book in the country is Just Mercy

by Bryan Stevenson, which our review called

a “deeply disturbing” look at the U.S. criminal

justice system. Unit sales of the 2015 trade

paperback had already topped 700K when

the film adaptation was released December

25, goosing sales even more.

On January 13, the New York Public Library

announced that The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack

Keats is its all-time most checked out title. The

1962 picture

book, which

was awarded a

Caldecott

Medal, is a

backlist staple

that tends to

get a bit of a

boost every

winter. But the

NYPL citation helped land the 1976 paperback

edition on our children’s picture book list at

#20, with the best weekly print unit sales since

BookScan began keeping records in 2004.

Two of the week’s nonfiction debuts

were written by parent-child coauthors.

The nutrition

book Brain

Wash, at #7,

is by David

Perlmutter, a

neurologist,

and Austin

Perlmutter, his

son and an

internal medicine

physician. Earlier books by Perlmutter

père include 2013’s Grain Brain,

TOP 10 OVERALL

1 Leadership Strategy and Tactics Jocko Willink St. Martin’s 41,

2 Fetch-22 (Dog Man #8) Dav Pilkey Graphix 26,

3 Where the Crawdads Sing Delia Owens Putnam 24,

4 Lost Patterson/Born Little, Brown 18,

5 The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse Charlie Mackesy HarperOne 18,

6 The Conference of the Birds (Miss Peregrine’s #5) Ransom Riggs Dutton 16,

7 Wrecking Ball (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #14) Jeff Kinney Amulet 15,

8 Grumpy Monkey Lang/Lang Random House 14,

9 Eat What You Love: Restaurant Favorites Marlene Koch Running Press 14,

10 Just Mercy Bryan Stevenson Random/Spiegel & Grau 12,

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BY CAROLYN JURIS

Behind the Bestsellers JAN. 12–18, 2020

NEW & NOTABLE

LEADERSHIP STRATEGY

AND TACTICS

Jocko Willink

#1 Hardcover Nonfiction,

#1 overall

The retired Navy SEAL, who has

written and coauthored books

with print units sales of well over a million

copies, again applies his military experience

to the business world.

TIGHTROPE

Nicholas D. Kristof and

Sheryl WuDunn

#4 Hardcover Nonfiction

Our review called this book by

husband-and-wife journalists Kristof

and WuDunn a “stark, fluidly written

portrait” that “turn[s] a compassion-

ate lens on the failed state of working-class

American communities.”

UNCANNY VALLEY

Anna Wiener

#19 Hardcover Nonfiction

Wiener delivers an “insider-y debut

memoir that sharply critiques start-

up culture and the tech industry,” our

review said. “Those interested in a

behind-the-scenes look at life in

Silicon Valley will want to take a look.”

ALL PRINT UNIT SALES PER NPD BOOKSCAN EXCEPT WHERE NOTED

which has sold

561K copies in

hardcover.

At #20,

Fanocracy, a

business title about

marketing and

fandom, is by father-

daughter team

David Meerman

Scott, whose books include The New Rules

of Marketing & PR, and Reiko Scott, a

medical student at Boston University

and an avid fanfiction writer.

Recent Weekly Print Unit Sales

for Just Mercy

Dec. 28

week
ended: Jan. 4 Jan. 11 Jan. 18

6,351 6,344 10,165 12,