Book Riot’s September 17, 2026 roundup combines rankings from The New York Times, Amazon Charts, Publishers Weekly, USA Today, and Indie Bestsellers to identify the books showing the broadest sales momentum across major U.S. lists. Allen Levi’s Theo of Golden, Matt Dinniman’s Dungeon Crawler Carl, and Kathryn Stockett’s The Calamity Club appeared on all five tracked lists, while Rachel Gillig’s gothic romantasy sequel The Knave and the Moon and Caro Claire Burke’s Yesteryear landed on four. Among the notable three-list titles were Man Booker Prize winner Marlon James’s The Disappearers, a novel set against the repercussions of a gay man’s killing in 1980s Jamaica, MrBeast and James Patterson’s collaborative release The Most Dangerous Games, political reporting book Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, and Hayden Panettiere’s memoir This Is Me: A Reckoning, which returned to bestseller lists after her death in August. The article also notes a continuing lack of diversity in the aggregated lists, particularly their disproportionate representation of white authors, while highlighting alternative independent and small-press selections including Monika Kim’s The Eyes Are the Best Part, Paul Yoon’s Etna, and Ayana Gray’s Hawk & Sparrow.