JD Vance hits #1 on NYT bestseller list with Hillbilly Elegy

Vice presidential nominee and US Senator JD Vance's book "Hillbilly Elegy" has hit the top spot on the New York Times Bestseller's list for non-fiction. The book, which chronicles Vance's path through a hard childhood, growing up in the small town of Middletown, Ohio, has sold over 750,000 copies since Vance was announced as Trump's VP pick.

According to the New York Times, since July 15, the sales on the book have skyrocketed in the United States. In the week ending July 20, after Vance was announced as the VP pick on July 15, "Hillbilly Elegy" had sold about 200,000 copies just in paperback. The week prior, the book had only sold around 1,500. The audiobook sales on his memoir have also surged since he was named the VP pick by Trump.

The book details Vance's rough childhood and relates it to the white working class in America, many of which live in what some on the coasts refer to as the "flyover states." In 2016, Rod Dreher wrote an article in the American Conservative along with an interview from Vance that crashed the site due to the amount of traffic that flocked to read "Hillbilly America: Do White Lives Matter?"