The Bestselling Books of the Week, According to All the Lists
Apr. 9th, 2026 10:05 amThe three titles on all five bestseller lists this week are familiar ones: Project Hail Mary continues to enjoy the popularity that comes with a blockbuster adaptation (amaze, amaze, amaze). Meanwhile, Theo of Golden and The Correspondent are proving how the book club circuit drives book sales—perhaps even more than BookTok, at this point.
Both the titles debuting on this roundup are romances, but in very different subgenres. The Night We Met by Abby Jimenez promises to be a heartwarming contemporary romance with a friends-to-lovers plot. Hunt the Villain by Rina Kent, on the other hand, is a dark M/M mafia romance between rivals. Pick your flavor!
This list continues to lack of diversity on many levels, including being disproportionately by white authors. Some Indie Bestsellers you should know about are Python’s Kiss: Stories by Louise Erdrich, The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali, and Strange Buildings by Uketsu.
To get these numbers, we look at the New York Times, both Combined Print & E-Book Fiction and Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction lists; Amazon Charts, both Fiction and Nonfiction; Publishers Weekly; USA Today; and Indie Bestsellers, Fiction and Nonfiction, both Paperback and Hardcover.
Books On All Five Bestseller Lists:
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Theo of Golden by Allen Levi
The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
Books On Four Bestseller Lists:
The Night We Met by Abby Jimenez (Publishers Weekly, USA Today, NYT, Indie Bestsellers)
Books On Three Bestseller Lists:
Judge Stone by James Patterson and Viola Davis (Publishers Weekly, NYT, Amazon)
Hunt the Villain by Rina Kent (Publishers Weekly, USA Today, NYT)
Strangers by Belle Burden (NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)
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