1. City in Glass, by Nghi Vo (signed copies)
2. Playground, by Richard Powers
3. Intermezzo, by Sally Rooney
4. Familiaris, by David Wroblewski
5. The Empusium, by Olga Tokarczuk
6. True North, by Andrew J Graff
7. All Fours, by Miranda July
8. Somewhere Beyond the Sea V2, by TJ Klune
9. James, by Percival Everett
10.The Mighty Red, by Louise Erdrich (UWM ticketed event October 28)
Don't be fooled! The Empusium shows up from our wholesaler as a Fitzcarralrdo edition, but it's for other territories. Our edition comes from Riverhead, annd has an actual cover image instead of being all type. The latest in English from the Nobel winner has eight raves, six positives, a mixed, and a pan. From Hari Kunzro in The New York Times Book Review: "The extreme misogyny of the guesthouse gentlemen runs like a vein of poison through...Olga Tokarczuk’s deft and disturbing new novel. In Antonia Lloyd-Jones’s crisp translation, Tokarczuk tells a folk horror story with a deceptively light and knowing tone."
1. The Coming Golden Age, by David Jeremiah
2. Teaching the Invisible Race, by Tony Delarosa
3. The Message, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
4. Be Ready When Luck Happens, by Ina Garten
5. The Defectors, by Paola Ramos
6. Moments of Happiness, by Mike Leckrone and Doug Moe (Boswell event October 29)
7. John Lewis, by David Greenberg
8. Where Rivers Part, by Kao Kalia Lang (Simulcast event October 17 - in person at capacity)
9. Capital, by Karl Marx
10. The Demon of Unrest, by Erik Larson
I guess there are other John Lewis bios, either out already or forthcoming, so the publisher made sure to differentiate John Lewis: A Life, by David Greenberg, to buyers: "David Greenberg interviewed Lewis three times, twice in his last months as he reflected on his life. He interviewed approximately 275 people who knew Lewis, and he had access to never-before-used FBI files, among many other sources." There are four raves and a positive at LitHub. Tim's a fan - he highlighted passages for several of us to read.
1. Close Call, by Kim Suhr (signed copies)
2. Austerlitz, by WG Sebald
3. North Woods, by Daniel Mason
4. Demon Copperfield, by Barbara Kingsolver
5. The House of Doors, by Tan Twan Eng
6. Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands V2, by Heather Fawcett
7. The Lightest Object in the Universe, by Kimi Eisele
8. The Booklover's Library, by Madeline Martin
9. The Postcard, by Anne Berest
10. Goodnight Tokyo, by Atsuhiro Yoshida
The Lightest Object in the Universe came out in paperback in 2020, and that was not a good time for paperback reprint sales at Boswell as in-person browsing is really important for that category. Kay's making up for it with her staff rec - we've sold more copies this year than we did for the hardcover and the first four years of paperback sale combined. From Publishers Weekly: "A near-future apocalypse forms the backdrop for an intense, moving romance in Eisele’s smart debut." Too bad it's slightly short discount (there's a POD surcharge) at Ingram, making it too-short-for-trade at some bookstores.
1. How Civil Wars Start, by Barbara F Walter
2. Assyria, by Eckart Fram
3. The Sisterhood, by Liza Mundy
4. The Book of More Delights, by Ross Gay
5. While You Were Out, by Meg Kissinger
6. The Art Thief, by Michael Finkel
7. We Had Fun and Nobody Died, by Amy T Waldman and Peter Jest
8. At the Lake, by Jim Landwehr
9. The Rediscovery of America, by Ned Blackhawk
10. Grief Is a Sneaky Bitch, by Lisa Keefauver
Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire has no LitHub feature, but the book was well-reviewed, including this from Kyle Harper in The Wall Street Journal: " Though the imposing civilization of ancient Assyria has receded from the foreground of collective memory, it has never completely succumbed to time. Eckart Frahm’s Assyria is a sweeping, delightfully readable effort to remind us of Assyria’s place in history.
1. The Yellow Bus, by Loren Long
2. The Last Dragon on Mars, by Scott Reintgen
3. Big, by Vashti Harrison
4. The Wild Robot, by Peter Brown
5. Everything We Never Had, by Randy Ribay
6. We Are Big Time, by Hena Khan, illustrations by Safiya Zerrougui
7. The Bletchley Riddle, by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin (Boswell October 18 event)
8. Pizza for Birds, by Bob Shea
9. Spooky Lakes, by Geo Rutherford (Boswell October 19 event)
10. The Big Cheese, by Jory John, illustrations by Pete Oswald
The Wild Robot is a hit film! The Rotten Tomatoes score is 98%. To put that in perspective, the new Joker movie is at 33% and just had the largest drop in second-week sales of any comic book movie ever. The book got great reviews too - Kirkus called it "thought-provoking and charming." Looks like #4 in the series is scheduled for next summer.
