Phinney Books Top 100 Bestsellers: Year EIGHT

Our bestselling books from June 20, 2021 through June 19, 2022. Totals for hardcover and paperback for a single title are combined. (Also see the top 100 bestsellers for our seventh year, sixth year, fifth year, fourth year, third year, and second year and the top 15 for our first year.)

  1. Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell (last year: #10)

  2. Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer (#5)

  3. Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro (#21)

  4. The Night Watchman, Louise Erdrich (#100)

  5. Cloud Cuckoo Land, Anthony Doerr

  6. Atlas of the Heart, Brené Brown

  7. Crying in H Mart, Michelle Zauner (#53)

  8. Secret Seattle, Susanna Ryan

  9. The Ice Palace, Tarjei Vesaas (#52)

  10. The Midnight Library, Matt Haig (#13)

  11. The Lincoln Highway, Amor Towles

  12. Beautiful World, Where Are You, Sally Rooney

  13. The House in the Cerulean Sea, T.J. Klune (#32)

  14. The Unseen, Roy Jacobsen (#77)

  15. Northwest Know-How: Trees, Karen Gaudette Brewer

  16. Circe, Madeline Miller (#17)

  17. Homewaters, David B. Williams

  18. The Overstory, Richard Powers (#6)

  19. The Wok, J. Kenji Lopez-Alt

  20. The 1619 Project, edited by Nikole Hannah-Jones

  21. The Harlem Shuffle, Colson Whitehead

  22. Anxious People, Fredrik Backman (#12)

  23. Leonard and Hungry Paul, Ronan Hession (#60)

  24. Dune, Frank Herbert

  25. The Promise, Damon Galgut

  26. When We Cease to Understand the World, Benjamin Labatut

  27. The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller (#94)

  28. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens

  29. Call Us What We Carry, Amanda Gorman

  30. The Dawn of Everything, David Graeber and David Wengrow

  31. All Systems Red, Martha Wells

  32. Bewilderment, Richard Powers

  33. Spear, Nicola Griffith

  34. The Women in Black, Madeleine St. John (#18)

  35. Big Shot (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #16), Jeff Kinney

  36. Crossroads, Jonathan Franzen

  37. The Great Circle, Maggie Shipstead

  38. The People We Meet on Vacation, Emily Henry

  39. This Is Your Mind on Plants, Michael Pollan

  40. The Best of Me, David Sedaris (#22)

  41. Change Sings, by Amanda Gorman

  42. Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (#34)

  43. Walks with Willa, Steven B. Reddy

  44. Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir

  45. The Dutch House, Ann Patchett (#57)

  46. Facing the Mountain, Daniel James Brown (#53)

  47. The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett (#2)

  48. The Fortnight in September, R.C. Sherriff

  49. Sea of Tranquility, Emily St. John Mandel

  50. The Thursday Murder Club, Richard Osman

  51. These Precious Days, Ann Patchett

  52. The Hill We Climb, Amanda Gorman (#16)

  53. A Carnival of Snackery, David Sedaris

  54. Eager, Ben Goldfarb

  55. Maus, Art Spiegelman

  56. The Ministry for the Future, Kim Stanley Robinson

  57. Taste, Stanley Tucci

  58. Matrix, Lauren Groff

  59. Cold War Correspondent (Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales #11), Nathan Hale

  60. Weekday Vegetarians, Jenny Rosenstrach

  61. Finding the Mother Tree, Suzanne Simard

  62. Cascadia Revealed, Daniel Mathews

  63. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong (#10)

  64. Transcendent Kingdom, Yaa Gyasi (#38)

  65. The Cold Millions, Jess Walter (#14)

  66. The Every, Dave Eggers

  67. Why Fish Don’t Exist, Lulu Miller

  68. Seattle Walk Report, Susanna Ryan (#70)

  69. Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon

  70. Storyteller, Dave Grohl

  71. Deacon King Kong, James McBride (#36)

  72. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, George Saunders (#61)

  73. Narwhal’s School of Awesomeness, Ben Clanton

  74. Friends Forever, Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham

  75. Woodland Dance!, Sandra Boynton

  76. Oh William!, Elizabeth Strout

  77. Aaron Slater, Illustrator, Andrea Beaty and David Roberts

  78. The Body, Bill Bryson (#64)

  79. Fuzz, Mary Roach

  80. Sorrow and Bliss, Meg Mason

  81. All About Love, bell hooks

  82. The Pebble Spotter’s Guide, Clive J. Mitchell

  83. Cat Kid Comic Club Perspectives, Dav Pilkey

  84. Happiness, Aminatta Forna

  85. The Lawless Land, Boyd and Beth Morrison

  86. The Sentence, Louise Erdrich

  87. The Lying Life of Adults, Elena Ferrante (#73)

  88. On Tyranny: Graphic Edition, Timothy Snyder

  89. A Christmas Memory, Truman Capote

  90. The Paper Palace, Miranda Cowley Heller

  91. The Anomaly, Hervé Le Tellier

  92. Breath, James Nestor (#28)

  93. The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois, Honoree Fanonne Jeffers

  94. The Splendid and the Vile, Erik Larson (#18)

  95. The Guide, Peter Heller

  96. Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, Samin Nosrat (#37)

  97. The Premonition, Michael Lewis

  98. The Madness of Crowds, Louise Penny

  99. Piranesi, Susanna Clarke

  100. The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel Van Der Kolk