Editor's Desk 
This week’s roundup of the biggest bestsellers includes three titles making their debuts. The Poison Daughter by Sheila Masterson is a standalone romantasy that was self-published in October 2025. It’s now out in a collector’s edition hardcover with a “full-color illustrated case, designed endpapers, and an exclusive bonus chapter.”
We also have the newest from the reigning queen of thrillers: Brain Damage by Freida McFadden, about a woman who loses her memory after someone tries to kill her, and she has to piece together what happened to catch the attempted murderer. Finally, there’s Pardon My Book: Ten Years of the Best (and Worst) in Sports from Pardon My Take by Big Cat and Pft Commenter, celebrating ten years of the sports podcast Pardon My Take.
This list continues to lack diversity on many levels, including being disproportionately by white authors. Some Indie Bestsellers you should know about are One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad, Taiwan Travelogue by Shuang-zi Yang and translated by Lin King, and Triage by Claudia Rankine.
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:
Theo of Golden by Allen Levi
Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
Whistler by Ann Patchett
Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett
Books On Four Bestseller Lists:
The Poison Daughter by Sheila Masterson (Publishers Weekly, USA Today, NYT, Indie Bestsellers)
Books On Three Bestseller Lists:
Brain Damage by Freida McFadden (Publishers Weekly, USA Today, NYT)
Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan (NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)
Strangers by Belle Burden (NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)
Pardon My Book: Ten Years of the Best (and Worst) in Sports from Pardon My Take by Big Cat and Pft Commenter (Publishers Weekly, USA Today, Amazon)
The Bestselling Books of Summer 2026
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