Colleen Hoover’s “It Ends With Us” remains at No. 1 for the second straight week on USA TODAY’s Best-Selling Books list. This is the fourth No. 1 for “It Ends With Us” this year and the fifth overall for the author; “Reminders of Him” hit the top spot in January. Hoover continues to dominate the rest of the list this summer with a total of 12 titles in this week’s top 150.
This year is proving to be a profitable one for Hoover, who has managed to write half of the top 10 books in sales so far this year. And she is nowhere near done, with another book due to publish in 2022. Her follow-up to “It Ends With Us,” titled “It Starts With Us,” is out Oct. 18, and tells fan favorite Atlas’ side of the story.
“Love on the Brain” (Berkely, 368 pp.) is the top fiction debut this week, coming in at No. 4. The novel follows scientist Bee Königswasser, who accepts her dream job at NASA only to find she is working with her grad school nemesis, Levi Ward.
What is a STEMinist romance? It’s not just the chemistry taking place between the two lead characters. A STEMinist rom-com features a protagonist whose job and life center on science, technology, engineering, math – and love.
This is Hazelwood’s fifth appearance on the best sellers list and her highest debut. Along with three novellas, “Love on the Brain” is the author’s second novel to make the list and is the followup to the highly successful “The Love Hypothesis,” which has spent 50 total weeks on the list.
Jared Kushner looks back in ‘Breaking History’
Jared Kushner’s “Breaking History: A White House Memoir” (Broadside Books, 512 pp.) debuts as the top nonfiction title on this week’s list, landing at No. 6. The businessman, investor and son-in-law of President Donald Trump draws on his experiences as senior advisor to the 45th president of the United States.
Kushner’s book hit shelves at a time of heightened scrutiny for Trump, who is under investigation by the Department of Justice for the mishandling of classified records. In August, FBI agents descended on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, where they discovered 11 sets of classified documents among the more than 30 boxes removed from the property, according to a new government filing.
Kushner’s memoir follows in the footsteps of other Trump administration best sellers: Kellyanne Conway’s memoir “Here’s the Deal” debuted at No. 13 in June, and John Bolton’s “The Room Where It Happened” debuted at No. 1 in July 2020. And it won’t be the last: Former Vice President Mike Pence’s autobiography “So Help Me God” is scheduled for release Nov. 15. (USAToday)