'Project 562' makes NYT bestsellers list

“IT’S A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!!” Matika Wilbur, “Tsa-Tsique,” shared the news in a group email last weekend. Less than two weeks after launching her photography book, “Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America” to the world on the Swinomish Reservation, it reached number 11 in its initial week for hardcover nonfiction and will appear in the May 14, 2023 issue of The New York Times Book Review, the Times website states.

The Swinomish and Tulalip tribal member is on a book tour, returning July 6 to Seaport Books in La Conner. Monday she was at Santa Monica College in California.

“Project 562” is below “Poverty, By America, by Matthew Desmond, in its sixth week on the list. It is above fellow Washingtonian Timothy Egan’s “A Fever In The Heartland,” a history of “the Ku Klux Klan’s rise to the height of its power in the 1920s and how one brutalized woman’s testimony diminished it.” The book has been listed for three weeks.

The Times website states “Rankings on weekly lists reflect sales for the week ending April 29, 2023. Lists are published early online.” Its methodology is to track “authoritatively ranked lists of books sold in the United States, sorted by format and genre.”

“Project 562” was available for preorder before the April 25 launch. According to the Times website, it reached eleventh place in less than a week.

Copies are available at Seaport Books.