This Week's Bestsellers: August 15, 2016

In its debut week, print units sales for the #1 book in the country, ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts 1 and 2,’ are more than double those for the next 99 books combined. Plus Colson Whitehead’s ’The Underground Railroad' gets the Oprah nod and the #3 slot in Hardcover Fiction, the newest spate of election-year books hit our list, and much more. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-08-12 00:00:00 UTC ]

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