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The #1 book in the country is Charlie Mackesy’s 2019 illustrated fable, The

Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse. Initially buoyed by its December

2019 designation as Barnes & Noble’s book of the year, the book had seen

consistently strong sales ever since, topping 1.2 million print units. Then, on

February 22, the author appeared on Today for an interview with Hoda Kotb,

and weekly sales more than quintupled compared with the week before.

Two buzzword-heavy diet books charted

this week, backed by the star power of

the authors and their supporters.

Believe It by It Cosmetics founder Jamie Kern Lima is the #3 book

in the country. It’s a “cheery memoir,” our review said, “charting her

meteoric rise in the sometimes-ugly beauty industry.” Lima

launched the company in 2008 after struggling with rosacea and

hyperpigmentation and sold it in 2016 for more than a billion

dollars, becoming the first female CEO of a L’Oréal brand. The

book doubles as a self-help manual: “She organizes her advice into three sections—

believe, risk, and empower,” the review continued, “and highlights the skills

that allowed her to flourish.” The author is donating her proceeds from the book to

the charitable organizations Feeding America and Together Rising.

TOP 10 OVERALL

1 The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse Charlie Mackesy HarperOne 96,

2 The Four Winds Kristin Hannah St. Martin’s 43,

3 Believe It Jamie Kern Lima Gallery 29,

4 I Love You to the Moon and Back Hepworth/Warnes Tiger Tales 27,

5 Green Eggs and Ham Dr. Seuss Random House 23,

6 The Pegan Diet Mark Hyman Little, Brown Spark 22,

7 A Court of Silver Flames Sarah J. Maas Bloomsbury 20,

8 Guess How Much I Love You McBratney/Jeram Candlewick 20,

9 One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish Dr. Seuss Random House 20,

10 I Love You Through and Through Rossetti-Shustak/Church Cartwheel 19,

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BY CAROLYN JURIS

Behind the Bestsellers FEB. 21–27, 2021

NEW & NOTABLE

THE DESOLATION OF

DEVIL’S ACRE

Ransom Riggs

#1 Children’s Frontlist Fiction

The sixth Miss Peregrine’s

Peculiar Children installment

concludes the decade-long

series, which has sold more than

five million print copies.

KG: A TO Z

Kevin Garnett, with David Ritz

#18 Hardcover Nonficton

The NBA Hall of Fame defensive

juggernaut, centerpiece of the

storied 2008 Boston Celtics

championship squad, writes

about “fame, family, racism,

spirituality, and music,” according to his pub-

lisher, with an assist from Ritz, collaborator on

numerous musician memoirs plus songs

including Marvin Gaye’s “Sexual Healing.”

ALL PRINT UNIT SALES PER NPD BOOKSCAN EXCEPT WHERE NOTED

The Pegan Diet by Mark Hyman, head of

strategy and innovation for the Cleveland

Clinic Center for Functional Medicine;

1.3 million Instagram followers

Intuitive Fasting by Will Cole, a func-

tional medicine practitioner and cohost

of the Goopfellas podcast; foreword by

Gwyneth Paltrow

17,043 17,

96,

13,

21,

WEEK

ENDED: JAN. 30 FEB. 6 FEB. 13 FEB. 20 FEB. 27

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RECENT PRINT

UNIT SALES FOR

CHARLIE MACKESY

Previous books include: 2012’s The Blood

Sugar Solution, 230K print copies sold

Previous books include: 2018’s Ketotarian,

86K print copies sold

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