Publishers Weekly - 02.09.2019

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Debuting at #4 in hardcover
fiction, Karin Slaughter’s The
Last Widow is a “visceral,
gratifying” thriller, our review
said. It’s the ninth entry in her
series starring Georgia Bureau of
Investigation agent Will Trent;
launch-week sales have been
picking up with each installment.
Slaughter also has had recent
success with her standalones,
including 2018’s Pieces of Her,
which is headed to Netflix as an
eight-episode limited series.

She Slays

Best in Show

Movie Watch

The big-screen adaptation of Donna
Tartt’s Pulitzer Prize–winning The
Goldfinch hits theaters September 13,
and as the publicity machine ramps
up, so too are book sales. The 2014
trade paperback has been trending
upward all summer, and on our current
list, it’s the #7 book in the country,
with sales more than double those of
the previous week.

The #3 book in the country is Thank You for My Service by You-

Tuber and five-tour Army Ranger Mat Best. He’s built a YouTube

platform one million subscribers strong with frequently NSFW videos

and has lent his swaggering brand to military-themed coffee, booze, and

apparel companies that employ fellow veterans. In his memoir, he is

unrepentantly gleeful about his time in Iraq and Afghanistan, writing:

“The one thing I have missed more than anything—every waking moment

of every day—since I left the military,” he writes, is “the thrill of war.”

TOP 10 OVERALL

1 For Whom the Ball Rolls (Dog Man #7) Dav Pilkey Graphix 125,896

2 Where the Crawdads Sing Delia Owens Putnam 40,119

3 Thank You for My Service Mat Best Bantam 26,038

4 We Don’t Eat Our Classmates Ryan T. Higgins Disney-Hyperion 21,946

5 Educated Tara Westover Random House 20,616

6 The Inn Patterson/Fox Little, Brown 16,239

7 The Goldfinch Donna Tartt Back Bay 15,235

8 One Good Deed David Baldacci Grand Central 14,384

9 Old Bones Preston/Child Grand Central 13,276

10 The Art of Racing in the Rain (movie tie-in) Garth Stein Harper 13,048

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By Carolyn Juris

Behind the Bestsellers AUG. 18–24, 2019

NEW & NOTABLE

OLD BONES

Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

#3 Hardcover Fiction

“Archaeologist Nora Kelly takes cen-

ter stage in this intriguing series

launch,” our review said, assuring

fans of the writing duo that “Preston

and Child have recaptured some of

their old magic.”

THE OUTLAW OCEAN

Ian Urbina

#7 Hardcover Nonfiction

In a book based on Urbina’s in-

vestigative series for the New York

Times, the Pulitzer Prize–winning

reporter offers an account of crimi-

nal activity on the high seas and,

as he writes in the introduction, “an ocean

woefully underprotected and the mayhem

and misery often faced by those who work

these waters.”

ALL PRINT UNIT SALES PER NPD BOOKSCAN EXCEPT WHERE NOTED

Recent First-Week Print Unit Sales

for the Will Trent Series

(^2011) 6,576
2012
2013
2016
2019
8,732
7,749
8,472
10,910
5,075 5,231 4,083
WEEK JULY 27
ENDED:
AUG. 3 AUG. 10 AUG. 17 AUG. 24

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7,238

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Recent Weekly Print Unit Sales for The Goldfinch

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15,235

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