Colleen Hoover regains No. 1 best selling book, 'Crime Junkie' host scores top fiction debut
Colleen Hoover's "It Ends With Us" returns to the top spot on USA TODAY's Best-selling Books list. The novel debuted at No. 1 in January and returned in June. But a book in the top spot is only the beginning: Hoover has managed to dominate the list all summer, and continues this week with 15 titles in the top 150.
Her sales surge can be attributed in part to her popularity on TikTok. Publishers Weekly chronicled the phenomenon when Hoover's 2016 book "It Ends With Us" started climbing the bestsellers lists in 2020.
Her follow-up to "It Starts With Us" is due Oct. 18, and tells fan favorite Atlas' side of the story.
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Podcaster Ashley Flowers scores top fiction debut
Ashley Flowers, best known for her true crime podcast "Crime Junkie," hits it big with her debut novel "All Good People Here" (Bantam, 320 pp.), this week's highest fiction debut at No. 4. The novel, a psychological thriller co-authored with Alex Kiester, is about a journalist, Margot Davies, who returns to her hometown to care for a family member and becomes obsessed with the of her childhood friend 25 years earlier, and the recent disappearance of another young girl.
According to Publisher's Weekly, Flowers delivers an "intricate, intriguing puzzler." The review concludes, "Flowers is off to a promising start."
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'Vacuuming Nude' tops nonfiction
Peggy Rowe, also known as mom to "Dirty Jobs" host Mike Rowe, returns to the bestsellers list at No. 19 with her latest collection of essays, "Vacuuming in the Nude: And Other Ways to Get Attention" (Forefront Books, 240 pp.). In this collection, Rowe, 84, ruminates on her journey to becoming a published author at the age of 80.
Rowe previously made the bestsellers list with 2018's "About My Mother: True Stories of a Horse-Crazy Daughter and Her Baseball-Obsessed Mother" and 2020's "About Your Father and Other Celebrities I Have Known: Ruminations and Revelations from a Desperate Mother to Her Dirty Son."
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