![]() ![]() ![]() Was there anything especially notable about the books that appeared on these lists in the 21st century? I was curious whether previous NYT bestseller lists around this time-a month before elections-reflected national concerns as clearly as they do now. Kendi’s How to Be an Antiracist, which has been a consistent bestseller for more than seven months. Just outside the top ten nonfiction books, at numbers eleven and twelve, are Mary Trump’s unflattering portrait of her family, Too Much and Never Enough, and Ibram X. This week, Bob Woodward’s Rage, which follows the Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, nabbed the number one spot. In August, the Republican National Committee spent more than $400,000 on “donor mementos,” more than a quarter of which went toward purchases of Hannity’s Live Free or Die. None of this is necessarily surprising, especially considering how the Owens, Sanders, and Hannity books have benefited from bulk orders. After seven weeks in the top ten, Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste, a narrative taxonomy of social hierarchies, is wedged between titles from Candace Owens, Michael Cohen, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and Sean Hannity. In a year when books about anti-racism have reached unprecedented sales, so too has the tide of journalistic blockbusters and books by conservative mainstays been steadily rolling. We’re a little more than a month out from Election Day and the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list is looking predictably odd. ![]()
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