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Behind the Bestsellers JAN. 8–14, 2018

BY CAROLYN JURIS

How Pink Thinks Domestic Drama

The reading public’s appetite for
The week’s biggest debut, When: The Scientific Secrets of Good Timing by
psychological thrillers continues,
Daniel H. Pink, is the #10 book in the country. Pink’s written several books on work,
with two books in the subgenre
management, and behavioral science—his most recent two have sold a combined
debuting on our lists this week.
824K print copies—and each title has had a better first week than the one before.
In The Wife Between Us by
FIRST-WEEK PRINT UNIT SALES FOR DANIEL H. PINK Greer Hendricks and Sarah
17,000 Pekkanen, #8 in hardcover
fiction, a woman is obsessed
with her ex-husband’s new fian-
cée. Our starred review said
the book’s “unforgettable twists
lead to shocking revelations all
10,000 the way through the epilogue.”
The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani,
which won the France’s Prix Goncourt in
2016, debuts at #18 in trade paper. It
5,000 begins with the words, “The baby is dead,”
then backtracks to explain the events
leading up to the tragedy.

1,000
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THE IMMORTALISTS
CAREER ARC Chloe Benjamin
#5 Hardcover Fiction
Neal Shusterman is the author of numerous series and standalone Benjamin’s second novel (after
2014’s The Anatomy of Dreams)
titles, mostly for young adults. He won the 2015 National Book
is an “imaginative and moving
Award for Young People’s Literature for Challenger Deep. 2016’s
family saga,” our starred review
Scythe, a Printz Award finalist that has sold 69K copies
said, that kicks off in 1969 with
in hardcover, launched the Arc of a Scythe series, which four siblings learning the dates of their
is set in a future when humanity has conquered death. deaths from a Lower East Side psychic.
Thunderhead, second in the series, debuts at #7 in
children’s and YA fiction; it sold twice as many print copies in its first DEAR GIRL
week as its predecessor did. Our starred review said the new book inter- Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Paris
weaves “heady questions of morality, responsibility, loyalty, and power.” Rosenthal, illus. by Holly Hatam
#7 Picture Books
Children’s book author Amy
TOP 10 OVERALL Krouse Rosenthal, who died in
2017, and Paris, her daughter, offer
RANK TITLE AUTHOR IMPRINT ISBN UNITS encouragement to young girls in a book
1 Fire and Fury Michael Wolff Holt 9781250158062 191,826 our review called “generally empathetic
and up-to-the-minute.”
2 Dog Man and Cat Kid (Dog Man #4) Dav Pilkey Graphix 9780545935180 26,936
3 No Middle Name Lee Child Dell 9780399593598 24,892
LOVE
4 A Wrinkle in Time Madeleine L’Engle Square Fish 9780312367541 24,244
Matt de la Peña, illus. by Loren Long
5 The Sun and Her Flowers Rupi Kaur Andrews McMeel 9781449486792 20,793
#11 Picture Books
6 The Woman in the Window A.J. Finn Morrow 9780062678416 20,276
A diverse array of families depict
7 Milk and Honey Rupi Kaur Andrews McMeel 9781449474256 18,315
the title concept in situations
8 Wonder R.J. Palacio Knopf 9780375869020 17,388 that aren’t always picture-perfect.
9 You Are a Badass Jen Sincero Running Press 9780762447695 17,307 “People often talk to children about love,”
10 When Daniel H. Pink Riverhead 9780735210622 16,963 our starred review said. “In these pages,
they can see and feel what it’s like.”
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