Phinney Books Top 100 Bestsellers: Year SEVEN

Our bestselling books from June 20, 2020 through June 19, 2021. Totals for hardcover and paperback for a single title are combined. (Also see the top 100 bestsellers for our sixth year, our fifth year, our fourth year, our third year, our second year and the top 15 for our first year.)

  1. A Promised Land, Barack Obama

  2. The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett

  3. Caste, Isabel Wilkerson

  4. How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi (last year: #19)

  5. Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer (#78)

  6. The Overstory, Richard Powers (#1)

  7. White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo (#13)

  8. Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo (#4)

  9. Shuggie Bain, Douglas Stuart

  10. Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell

  11. So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo (#3)

  12. Anxious People, Fredrik Backman

  13. The Midnight Library, Matt Haig

  14. The Cold Millions, Jess Walter

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

  16. The Hill We Climb, Amanda Gorman

  17. Circe, Madeline Miller (#92)

  18. The Women in Black, Madeleine St. John (#66)

  19. Deep River, Karl Marlantes (#24)

  20. Dog Man: Grime and Punishment, Dav Pilkey

  21. Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro

  22. The Best of Me, David Sedaris

  23. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Suzanne Collins

  24. Untamed, Glennon Doyle (#15)

  25. Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You, Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi

  26. What It’s Like to Be a Bird, David Allen Sibley

  27. Mediocre, Ijeoma Oluo

  28. Breath, James Nestor

  29. The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel Wilkerson

  30. The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates (#26)

  31. Me and White Supremacy, Layla Saad (#5)

  32. The House in the Cerulean Sea, T.J. Klune

  33. Dog Man: Mothering Heights, Dav Pilkey

  34. Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia

  35. Nature Obscura, Kelly Brenner

  36. Deacon King Kong, James McBride

  37. Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, Samin Nosrat (#17)

  38. Transcendent Kingdom, Yaa Gyasi

  39. The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin

  40. A Pilgrimage to Eternity, Timothy Egan (#7)

  41. The Metamorphoses of Ovid, translated by Allen Mandelbaum

  42. The Deep End (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #15), Jeff Kinney

  43. Logan Likes Mary Anne! (Baby-Sitters Club Graphic Novel #8), Ann M. Martin and Gale Galligan

  44. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse, Charlie Mackesy (#38)

  45. The Topeka School, Ben Lerner (#99)

  46. The Glass Hotel, Emily St. John Mandel (#53)

  47. The Searcher, Tana French

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

  49. When Stars Are Scattered, Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed

  50. Solutions and Other Problems, Allie Brosh

  51. The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead (#34)

  52. The Ice Palace, Tarjei Vesaas

  53. Crying in H Mart, Michelle Zauner

  54. Such a Fun Age, Kiley Reid (#74)

  55. Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens (#5)

  56. A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles (#9)

  57. The Dutch House, Ann Patchett (#13)

  58. Intimations, Zadie Smith

  59. Antiracist Baby, Ibram X. Kendi and Ashley Lukashevsky

  60. Leonard and Hungry Paul, Ronan Hession

  61. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, George Saunders

  62. Blades of Freedom (Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales #10), Nathan Hale

  63. Vesper Flights, Helen Macdonald

  64. The Body, Bill Bryson

  65. Hollow Kingdom, Kira Jane Buxton

  66. Too Much and Never Enough, Mary Trump

  67. Interior Chinatown, Charles Yu

  68. My Little Golden Book About Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Shana Corey and Margeaux Lucas

  69. Moby-Dick, Herman Melville

  70. Seattle Walk Report, Susanna Ryan (#31)

  71. A Woman of No Importance, Sonia Purnell (#52)

  72. Normal People, Sally Rooney (#27)

  73. The Lying Life of Adults, Elena Ferrante

  74. Homeland Elegies, Ayad Akhtar

  75. The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander

  76. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Olga Tokarczuk (#37)

  77. The Unseen, Roy Jacobsen

  78. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf

  79. Cat Kid Comic Club, Dav Pilkey

  80. There There, Tommy Orange (#11)

  81. Scythe, Neal Shusterman

  82. Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates

  83. How to Change Your Mind, Michael Pollan (#67)

  84. Say Nothing, Patrick Radden Keefe (#47)

  85. Stamped from the Beginning, Ibram X. Kendi

  86. Writers and Lovers, Lily King

  87. Ready Player Two, Ernest Cline

  88. Rowley Jefferson’s Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories, Jeff Kinney

  89. All the Devils Are Here, Louise Penny

  90. Jack, Marilynne Robinson

  91. Shit, Actually, Lindy West

  92. Real Life, Brandon Taylor

  93. My Grandmother’s Hands, Resmaa Menakem

  94. The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller

  95. From the Desk of Zoe Washington, Janae Marks

  96. The Dogs, Rebecca Brown

  97. The Invisible Life of Addie Larue, V.E. Schwab

  98. Perestroika in Paris, Jane Smiley

  99. The Queen’s Gambit, Walter Tevis

  100. The Night Watchman, Louise Erdrich