Hardcover Fiction:1. Where the Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens
2. Time's Convert, by Deborah Harkness
3. A Discovery of Witches V1, by Deborah Harkness
4. The World of All Souls, by Deborah Harkness
5. Shadow of Night V2, by Deborah Harkness
6. City of Girls, by Elizabeth Gilbert
7. Big Sky V5, by Kate Atkinson
8. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong
9. Girl in the Rearview Mirror, by Kelsey Rae Dimberg
10. The Most Fun We Ever Had, by Claire Lombardo (event at Boswell Tue Aug 6, 7 pm)
It might have been a late add to our event schedule but Claire Lombardo's The Most Fun We Ever Had has already hit our top ten twice. The book got an excellent review in The Wall Street Journal from Joanne Kaufman, where she chornicles the "lies, secrets, betrayals, and quarrels" in Lombardo's "assured" first novel: "Just to be clear, these events aren't the fun referred to in the book's title, but they provide ample evidence that life is is messy and life is unfair."
Hardcover Nonfiction:1. One Giant Leap, by Charles Fishman
2. Total Rethink, by David McCourt
3. Propeller, by Craig Hickman
4. Keep the Wretches in Order, by Dean A Strang
5. Helping the Good Do Better, by Thomas Sheridan
6. Spying on the South, by Tony Horwitz
7. Stay Sexy and Don't Get Murdered, by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Harstark
8. The Pioneers, by David McCullough
9. Doodle Love, by Anne Emerson (event at Boswell Thu July 11, 7 pm)
10. Salt Fat Acid Heat, by Samin Nosrat
I'd like to think that Charles Fishman's book, One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon, rocketed to the top of our bestseller list because of our moon window, but no, it's because he was in town to speak at a water conference. On Fresh Air, he talked about the people who wove the special NASA parachutes: "The parachutes were made of high-tech fabric, and yet they were sewn by hand, and then this sort of marvelous detail: There were only three people in the whole country certified to fold and pack Apollo parachutes. Those three people packed the parachutes for all the Apollo missions, and they had to be relicensed by the FAA every six months to be recertified that they knew what they were doing. And they were considered so valuable to NASA that they were forbidden to ride in the same car at the same time, out of fear that that car would be in a car accident and NASA would be without people to pack its Apollo parachutes."
Paperback Fiction:1. Time's Convert, by Deborah Harkness
2. A Discovery of Witches V1, by Deborah Harkness
3. The Overstory, by Richard Powers
4. Milwaukee Noir, edited by Tim Hennessy
5. There There, by Tommy Orange
6. Vintage 1954, by Antoine Laurain
7. The Book of Live V3, by Deborah Harkness
8. A Gentleman in Moscow, by Amor Towles
9. We're All in This Together, by Amy Jones
10. Shadow of Night V2, by Deborah Harkness
We were honored to be one of four cities that hosted Deborah Harkness for her paperback tour of Time's Convert. Each city had a different talk, all of which were live-streamed on Facebook. You can watch the talk here, which opens with me rushing off stage! We have signed copies of the Time's Convert paperback and must of the hardcovers.
Paperback Nonfiction:1. The Big Thirst, by Charles Fishman
2. Level Up, by Rochelle Melander
3. Birds of Wisconsin Field Guide, by Stan Tekiela
4. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes, by Dan Egan
5. Wildflowers of Wisconsin Field Guide, by Stan Tekiela
6. Trees of Wisconsin Field Guide, by Stan Tekiela
7. The Mueller Report, by US Department of Justice and The Washington Post
8. Why My Cat Is More Impressive Than Your Baby, by Matthew Inman
9. The Milwaukee Anthology, by Justin Kern
10. How to Change Your Mind, by Michael Pollan
Matthew Inman, the Eisner Award-winning creator of The Oatmeal, offers another collection of cat cartoons, following the #1 bestseller, How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You. Inman also came to Milwaukee once - dare I say it was eight years ago? He toured for his latest, but alas, no Milwaukee. He spoke to The Washington Post when he was in DC, noting that he won't be regularly doing The Oatmeal strip much longer: "'I’m not going to retire,' the 36-year-old says. But he’ll go on long-term hiatus and then publish an occasional Oatmeal strip when, 'f I put out a comic, it’s a blessing.'" The article confirms that Inman toured Boswell for what was his first book, Five Reasons to Punch a Dolphin in the Mouth.
Books for Kids:
1. The Amazing Idea of You, by Charlotte Sullivan Wild, with illustrations by Mary Lundquist2. A Place for Pluto, by Stef Wade, with illustrations by Melanie Demmer
3. Bad Guys in the Big Bad Wolf V9, by Aaron Blabey
4. With the Fire on High, by Elizabeth Acevedo
5. Lulu and Rocky in Milwaukee, by Barbara Joosse, with illustrations by Renee Graef
6. A Tale of Two Kitties V3, by Dav Pilkey
7. 12 Days of Christmas, by Robert Sabuda
8. Viral, by Ann Bausum
9. Dragons Love Tacos 2, by Adam Rubin, with illustrations by Daniel Salmieri
10. Harbor Me, by Jacqueline Woodson (ticketed event at Boswell, Mon Sep 23, 7 pm - details to come)
Wow, The Bad Guys series has really caught on - while its been hitting The New York Times for about a year, I think this is the first week where we had pent-up demand for a first week pop. I made sure that this week's bestseller pop wasn't to just one organization or school buying in bulk and it was not. The series is in development for a film at Dreamworks. The Bad Guys in The Big Bad Wolf has its own trailer - maybe you should watch!
Over at the Journal Sentinel, Leanne Italie's Associated Press profile of Elaine Welteroth is featured on the book page. In More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say), she notes as a person of mixed race, she has come to appreciate "her biracial status as one of her superpowers, along with an ability to empathize with and understand many world views."
Italie's piece doesn't really so much critique as summarize, but Douglass K. Daniel's Associated Press piece for Wild and Crazy Guys: How the Comedy Mavericks of the ’80s Changed Hollywood Forever does include a caveat: "A flaw in (Nick) de Semlyen’s enjoyable book is its bent toward fact over analysis. His answer to the question posed by its subtitle - a couple of paragraphs about legacies, rule-breaking and commercial success - feels perfunctory."
And from Patty Rhule comes a USA Today piece for Jennifer Weiner's Mrs. Everything, about two sisters who "paved the way for Weiner's more modern protagonist." Her take: "If you are a woman who has lived through the past 50 years, this book will make you uneasy, even angry. But maybe that’s the point. Coming of age during the women’s liberation movement, Bethie and Jo take different tracks to fulfillment; one follows traditional expectations for women, and the other runs from them. Both choices prove costly."
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