10 PUBLISHERS WEEKLY FEBRUARY 2, 2026
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AGE OLD TALE Former child actor Jennette McCurdy lands at #2 on our hardcover ction list with Half His Age . It’s “a provocative debut novel,” according to our review, in which a high school senior falls for her creative writing teacher. The review praised the “many clear-eyed depictions of the characters’ transgres- sions, particularly when they meet for sex and their mutual desire reaches a disastrous boiling point.” McCurdy made a splash
Hardcover Frontlist Fiction
Hardcover Frontlist Nonfiction
Twelve Months Jim Butcher, Ace (36,403 units)
1O The Invisible Coup Peter Schweizer, Harper (39,890 units) 2 Stop, in the Name of God Charlie Kirk, Winning Team (18,301) 3 Of Course It’s Good! Jessica Secrest, Page Street (14,713) 4 The O cial We Do Not Care Club Handbook Melani Sanders, Harvest (13,084) 5O Your Roots Don’t Define You Chris Appleton, Hanover Square (11,366) 6 The Next Renaissance Zack Kass, Wiley (9,434) 7 Enough Jastrebo /Winfrey, Avid Reader (7,268) 8O The Healing Power of Resilience Tara Narula, Simon Element (6,163) 9 1929 Andrew Ross Sorkin, Viking (5,322) O Football Chuck Klosterman, Penguin Press (5,186) Nobody’s Girl Virginia Roberts Giu re, Knopf (5,053) Eat Yourself Healthy Jamie Oliver, Flatiron (4,731) The Simple Path to Wealth JL Collins, Authors Equity (4,310) How to Test Negative for Stupid John Kennedy, Broadside (4,157) O Big Trust Shadé Zahrai, HarperOne (4,139)
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Half His Age Jennette McCurdy, Ballantine (30,761) 3 The Correspondent Virginia Evans, Crown (26,373) 4O My Husband’s Wife
Alice Feeney, Pine & Cedar (22,156) The Things We Leave Unfinished (signed) Rebecca Yarros, Amara (13,892) John Grisham, Doubleday (10,688) 7 The First Time I Saw Him Laura Dave, Scribner (10,375) 8 Alchemised SenLinYu, Del Rey (9,550) 9 The Secret of Secrets Dan Brown, Doubleday (9,537) Anatomy of an Alibi Ashley Elston, Viking/ Dorman (8,301) The Intruder Freida McFadden, Poisoned Pen (6,864) O The Elsewhere Express Samantha Sotto Yambao, Del Rey (6,266) 6 The Widow
BEST TRESSED Celebrity hairstylist Chris Appleton debuts at #5 on our hardcover nonfiction list with Your Roots Don’t Define You , “a glossy yet sincere guide to personal transformation,” per our review. “Drawing from his years styling the likes of Kim Kardashian and Jennifer Lopez, Appleton highlights the links between external and internal change.” While the review found that he “sometimes stretches the hair- cut analogy to its breaking point,” it also noted that “his conversational tone and enthusiasm for helping others are infectious, and his client stories yield surprisingly tender insights into the complexities of identity and self-perception.” with her 2022 memoir, I’m Glad My Mom Died , which has sold 1.2 million print copies, and is the writer, executive producer, and showrunner on the forthcoming Apple TV adaptation, which stars Jennifer Aniston as her mother.
MAKINGT CKS Pulling into the #12 spot on our hardcover ction list, Samantha Sotto Yambao’s The Elsewhere Express is a “high- concept romantic fable,” according to our review. Yambao “delivers a dreamlike, whimsical, and wildly imaginative trip through time and liminal space that occasionally raises more questions than it answers.” It follows the 2025 portal fantasy Water Moon , which our review called a “thought-provoking exploration of regret, choice, and free will.” First-week print unit sales for the new book are up 41% compared with her previous book.
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Danielle Steel, Delacorte (6,158)
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Charlie Mackesy, Penguin Life (5,499) Brimstone (deluxe ed.) Callie Hart, Forever (5,492)
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