JILL BIDEN MEMOR'S DISAPPEARANCE FROM NYT BESTSELLER LIST AFTER DEBUTING AT TOP PROMPTS QUESTIONS

Former First Lady Jill Biden’s memoir had a brief run atop the New York Times bestseller list before tumbling out of the rankings just weeks later — fueling online speculation that its lofty debut owed more to bulk book orders than to sustained reader demand.

“View from the East Wing,” which was published by Simon & Schuster’s imprint Gallery Books, debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction list on June 21 with a dagger (†) symbol indicating that retailers reported some bulk purchases.

By the following week, it had slipped to No. 3, and it has since fallen off the list altogether. MORE AT Jill Biden memoir's disappearance from NYT bestseller list after debuting at top prompts questions