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Rank	Last Week	Weeks on List	Bibliographical Information (Click title for review)	Pub Date	Units 2025 YTD
1	-	1	Katabasis (Deluxe Limited Edition) R F Kuang, Author Harper Voyager, $35.00 (560) 978-0-06-302147-1 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 1 Initial Date 09/08/2025 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 09/08/2025 Average Rank 1.00 [details] Sales history for Katabasis (Deluxe Limited Edition) date, rank 09/08/2025, 1 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Aug 2025 UNITS SOLD: 74,010 YTD: 74,010	Aug 2025	74,010 74,010
2	2	2	The Surrogate Mother Freida McFadden, Author Poisoned Pen Press, $17.99 (320) 978-1-4642-2730-1 Last rank 1 Initial Rank 2 Initial Date 09/01/2025 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 09/01/2025 Average Rank 1.50 [details] Sales history for The Surrogate Mother date, rank 09/01/2025, 2 09/08/2025, 2 LAST WEEK: 2 WEEKS ON LIST: 2 PUB DATE: Aug 2025 UNITS SOLD: 40,372 YTD: 88,036	Aug 2025	40,372 88,036
3	3	36	The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can't Stop Talking about Mel Robbins, Author Hay House LLC, $29.99 (336) 978-1-4019-7136-6 Last rank 1 Initial Rank 3 Initial Date 01/06/2025 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 01/06/2025 Average Rank 1.39 [details] Sales history for The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can't Stop Talking about date, rank 01/06/2025, 3 01/13/2025, 1 01/20/2025, 1 01/27/2025, 2 02/03/2025, 3 02/10/2025, 2 02/17/2025, 1 02/24/2025, 1 03/03/2025, 1 03/10/2025, 1 03/17/2025, 1 03/24/2025, 1 03/31/2025, 2 04/07/2025, 2 04/14/2025, 3 04/21/2025, 3 04/28/2025, 2 05/05/2025, 3 05/12/2025, 2 05/19/2025, 2 05/26/2025, 1 06/02/2025, 4 06/09/2025, 2 06/16/2025, 1 06/23/2025, 2 06/30/2025, 1 07/07/2025, 1 07/14/2025, 1 07/21/2025, 1 07/28/2025, 1 08/04/2025, 1 08/11/2025, 1 08/18/2025, 2 08/25/2025, 1 09/01/2025, 3 09/08/2025, 3 LAST WEEK: 3 WEEKS ON LIST: 36 PUB DATE: Dec 2024 UNITS SOLD: 31,025 YTD: 2,093,194	Dec 2024	31,025 2,093,194
4	-	1	Disney Word Search, Quips, Quotes and Coloring Book Editors of Thunder Bay Press, Author Thunder Bay Press, $14.99 (192) 978-1-6672-0069-9 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 4 Initial Date 09/08/2025 Highest Rank 2 Highest Rank Date 09/08/2025 Average Rank 3.00 [details] Sales history for Disney Word Search, Quips, Quotes and Coloring Book date, rank 09/08/2025, 4 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Aug 2025 UNITS SOLD: 20,876 YTD: 20,876	Aug 2025	20,876 20,876
5	-	1	The Color of Death Trey Gowdy, Author, Christopher Greyson, Author Harper Influence, $30.00 (288) 978-0-06-345191-9 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 5 Initial Date 09/08/2025 Highest Rank 2 Highest Rank Date 09/08/2025 Average Rank 3.50 [details] Sales history for The Color of Death date, rank 09/08/2025, 5 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Aug 2025 UNITS SOLD: 17,992 YTD: 17,992	Aug 2025	17,992 17,992
6	46	2	Little Blue Truck's Halloween Alice Schertle, Author, Jill McElmurry, Illustrator HMH, $12.99 (16) 978-0-544-77253-3 Last rank 8 Initial Rank 13 Initial Date 07/18/2016 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 09/19/2016 Average Rank 4.31 [details] Sales history for Little Blue Truck's Halloween date, rank 09/19/2016, 8 09/26/2016, 5 10/03/2016, 7 10/10/2016, 8 10/26/2020, 10 09/13/2021, 7 09/20/2021, 8 09/27/2021, 9 10/04/2021, 10 10/11/2021, 8 10/18/2021, 10 10/25/2021, 7 09/08/2025, 6 LAST WEEK: 46 WEEKS ON LIST: 2 PUB DATE: Jul 2016 UNITS SOLD: 16,176 YTD: 31,926	Jul 2016	16,176 31,926
7	-	1	I Just Wish I Had a Bigger Kitchen: And Other Lies I Think Will Make Me Happy Kate Strickler, Author Bethany House Publishers, $26.99 (192) 978-0-7642-4378-3 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 7 Initial Date 09/08/2025 Highest Rank 2 Highest Rank Date 09/08/2025 Average Rank 4.50 [details] Sales history for I Just Wish I Had a Bigger Kitchen: And Other Lies I Think Will Make Me Happy date, rank 09/08/2025, 7 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Aug 2025 UNITS SOLD: 16,073 YTD: 16,073	Aug 2025	16,073 16,073
8	-	1	Unbreakable: A Woman's Guide to Aging with Power Vonda Wright, Author Rodale Books, $28.00 (384) 978-0-593-73658-6 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 8 Initial Date 09/08/2025 Highest Rank 3 Highest Rank Date 09/08/2025 Average Rank 5.50 [details] Sales history for Unbreakable: A Woman's Guide to Aging with Power date, rank 09/08/2025, 8 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Aug 2025 UNITS SOLD: 13,407 YTD: 13,407	Aug 2025	13,407 13,407
9	1	2	Quicksilver (Deluxe Limited Edition) Callie Hart, Author Forever, $33.00 (640) 978-1-5387-7420-5 Last rank 1 Initial Rank 1 Initial Date 09/01/2025 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 09/01/2025 Average Rank 3.50 [details] Sales history for Quicksilver (Deluxe Limited Edition) date, rank 09/01/2025, 1 09/08/2025, 9 LAST WEEK: 1 WEEKS ON LIST: 2 PUB DATE: Aug 2025 UNITS SOLD: 13,172 YTD: 67,713	Aug 2025	13,172 67,713
10	-	1	Kiss the Villain (Standard Edition) Rina Kent, Author Bloom Books, $18.99 (560) 978-1-4642-5180-1 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 10 Initial Date 09/08/2025 Highest Rank 3 Highest Rank Date 09/08/2025 Average Rank 6.50 [details] Sales history for Kiss the Villain (Standard Edition) date, rank 09/08/2025, 10 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: 1 PUB DATE: Aug 2025 UNITS SOLD: 12,721 YTD: 12,721	Aug 2025	12,721 12,721

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Source: Circana BookScan, for the week ended Aug. 30, 2025; appearing in the Sept. 8, 2025, print edition of PW