


Book publisher Simon & Schuster on Tuesday predicted that former Vice President Kamala Harris‘s book, 107 Days, which focuses on her 2024 presidential campaign, will be the top-selling memoir this year.
Simon & Schuster, the company publishing Harris’s book, sold 350,000 copies across all formats during its first week on sale in the United States and announced that it ordered a fifth printing of the book, which will bring the number of hardcover copies in print to 500,000.
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“These sales put 107 DAYS on a trajectory to be the best-selling memoir published in 2025,” the company said.
Jonathan Karp, president and CEO of Simon & Schuster, said, “In addition to being one of the most interesting books ever written about the experience of running for President of the United States, the success of 107 DAYS proves what a galvanizing and inspiring cultural figure Kamala Harris is.”
He noted that since 2023, the only other memoirs that have had a better first week of sales were written by Britney Spears, Taylor Swift, and Prince Harry.
Harris has embarked on a tour across the U.S. to further highlight her book about the 107 days of her presidential campaign. The book details each day of her historically short campaign, from when former President Joe Biden dropped out and she became the presumptive nominee to her ultimate loss in the race.
She has been overtly candid in the book about several of her disagreements with Biden and his operatives throughout the campaign, as well as her process for selecting her running mate.
In the book, she wrote that former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was her first choice for vice president, but she did not pick him because she did not believe the country was ready to elect a gay man alongside a black woman. Her comments have received criticism from Democratic pundits.
She said she was “surprised” by the reaction to that portion of the book in a CNN interview, noting her intention was not to offend Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), whom she ultimately chose to be her running mate.
“There are things that actually have surprised me about how people have interpreted some parts of the book. That was never intended. I didn’t even think that anyone would interpret that part as Tim Walz was second choice,” Harris said. “If I had, maybe I would have said, ‘It doesn’t mean that Tim is second choice.’ That was not on my mind at all, not on my mind at all.”
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She also said she struggled with how to write about her relationship with Biden. In the book, she says Biden’s team did not give her the support she needed at crucial moments in her campaign.
“I knew when I was writing it that it would invite attacks or criticism, which I don’t want, but that versus candor — for the sake of hopefully inviting difficult, though they may be honest, conversations,” she said. “That’s the choice I made.”