When small-town cop Deputy Ben Packard finds himself at a low point—on leave and under investigation with no resources or support—he strikes out to finally uncover the truth behind his brother’s disappearance many years ago, and stumbles on a separate, suspicious death. A tenuous connection exists between the two cases, and as Packard starts to dig, he meets fierce resistance from friends and foes alike who want him to stand down. The winter is long and cold. By the end of it, Packard will risk everything to catch a killer and reveal the shocking truth.
The novels on the bestseller lists this week come from familiar authors: Rebecca Yarros, Freida McFadden, Ali Hazelwood, and Percival Everett. As for nonfiction, we’ve got the newest from Mel Robbins as well as a celebrity memoir: Source Code by Bill Gates.
In 2021, The New York Times published an article called Long Before Divorce, Bill Gates Had Reputation for Questionable Behavior, which included discussion of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. The same year, Business Insider published a timeline of all of Bill Gates’s “questionable conduct”, among many other outlets’ coverage. But four years later, his memoir is on the bestseller lists, showing just how short the internet’s memory is—or how nonexistent “cancel culture” is. As for how Gates addresses any of this, in an interview with Wall Street Journal promoting the book, he calls his meeting with Jeffrey Epstein after Epstein had been convicted of child sex trafficking “foolish.”
To get the numbers for the bestsellers, we look at the USA Today overall top 10; Publishers Weekly overall top 10; The New York Times top 10, both Combined Print & E-Book Fiction and Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction lists; Amazon Charts top 10, both Fiction and Nonfiction; and Indie Bestsellers top 10, Fiction and Nonfiction, both Paperback and Hardcover. New additions to the list this week are bolded.
This list continues to have a lack of diversity on many levels, including being disproportionately by white authors. Some Indie Bestsellers you should know about are Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler, Yellowface by R. F. Kuang, and The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates.
The Bestselling Books of the Week, According to All the Lists
Books On Four Bestseller Lists:
Deep End by Ali Hazelwood (Publishers Weekly, USA Today, NYT, Indie Bestsellers)
The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins (Publishers Weekly, USA Today, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)
Source Code by Bill Gates (Publishers Weekly, USA Today, NYT, Indie Bestsellers)
Books On Three Bestseller Lists:
James by Percival Everett (Amazon, NYT, Indie Bestsellers)
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