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USA Today is reportedly putting its weekly best-seller list on hold after the chart’s editor was fired by the paper’s parent company, Gannett.
The Associated Press reported that Gannett laid off hundreds of employees in early December, including book reporter and book list editor Mary Cadden.
Recently, Warner Bros. Hundreds of media workers have been laid off in a brutal period of economic uncertainty engulfing news organizations such as Discovery, Gannett and others. (Getty)
Each week, USA Today publishes a list of the top 150 best-selling books. Unlike the New York Times, USA Today ranks all books together rather than by category.
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The list was compiled using hardcover, paperback, and e-book sales statistics from independent stores as well as online retailers.
USA Today’s list is also highly regarded by publishers and authors, according to the AP.
This combination of book cover images shows the cover art for the upcoming edition, top left, of Nicole Hanna-Jones’s The 1619 Project: A New Origin History, a novella Crossroads published November 16 (One World). Jonathan Franzen is out in October. (AP Newsroom / AP Newsroom)
A Gannett spokeswoman told the AP that the USA Today Books list “will be on hiatus for the rest of the year” and that they will share additional updates in 2023.
The top five books on USA Today’s Most Relevant list include “It Begins With Us” by Colleen Hoover; “The Choice,” Nora Roberts; “The Light We Carry” by Michelle Obama; Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dipper Överlode by Jeff Kinney; and “It Ends With Us” by Colleen Hoover.