1. The Passenger, by Cormac McCarthy
2. Signal Fires, by Dani Shapiro
3. Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver
4. Under a Veiled Moon, by Karen Odden
5. The Boys from Biloxi, by John Grisham
6. Liberation Day, by George Saunders
7. Lucy by the Sea, by Elizabeth Strout
8. The Lincoln Highway, by Amor Towles
9. Our Missing Hearts, by Celeste Ng
10. The Winners, by Fredrik Backman
No real competition this week for our #1 new release - we've been getting requests for The Passenger for months, the first Cormac McCarthy novel since (could it be?) The Road in 2006. And the companion novel, Stella Maris, releases in December. The critics are all over the place on this one. John Jeremiah Sullivan was "positive" in Book Marks, but sort of lays out why some reviewers might be less so: "The Passenger is far from McCarthy’s finest work, but that’s because he has had the nerve to push himself into new places, at the age of all-but-90. He has tried something in these novels that he’d never done before."
1. Painting Can Save Your Life, by Sara Woster (Register for November 2 in-person event here)
2. Go-To Dinners, by Ina Garten
3. Dinner in One, by Melissa Clark
4. The Stolen Year, by Anya Kam
5. Working Girls, by Trixie Mattel and Katya Zamlodchikova
6. I'm Glad My Mom Died, by Jennette McCurdy
7. And There Was Light, by Jon Meacham
8. Inciting Joy, by Ross Gay
9. Song of the Cell, by Siddhartha Mukherjee
10. Slenderman, by Kathleen Hale
There was a siting of Trixie Mattel in the store this week, which set a couple of hearts aflutter. Stock of Working Girls: Trixie and Katya's Guide to Professional Womanhood were signed; books were sold. All the advance trades were over-the-top positive - Publishers Weekly called the book "hysterical", nothing that "this bawdy manual slays."
1. It Stars with Us, by Colleen Hoover
2. We Were Never Here, by Andrea Bartz
3. The Sentence, by Louise Erdrich
4. The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches, by Sangu Madanna
5. Once Upon a December, by Amy E. Reichert (Register for November 30 event here)
6. It Ends with Us, by Colleen Hoover
7. Fire and Blood, by George R.R. Martin
8. The Priory of the Orange Tree, by Samantha Shannon
9. People Immortal, by Vasily Grossman
10. Girl One, by Sara Flannery Murphy
Our Books and Beer Book Club is one of our two in-person Boswell-run reading groups, meeting at Cafe Hollander on the third Monday. Their next selection is Girl One, which the publishers position as The Handmaid's Tale (isn't it always?) meets Orphan Black. I was interested to note that when the publisher promoted the hardcover, they used librarian and bookseller reviews, but they only used first name/last initial and not the store, even though we identify both on Indie Bound and Library Reads. Authors got their full name - Kami Garcia wrote "A genre-defying, thought-provoking thriller that is impossible to put down." More on our book clubs here.
1. Heart Speak, by Sherrill A Knezel
2. A History of Milwaukee Drag, by BJ Daniels and Michail Takach
3. Milwaukee Scavenger, by Jenna Kashou (Register for November 3 event here)
4. Brewtown Tales, by John Gurda (Register for December 6 event by emailing publicity@wisconsinhistory.org)
5. 111 Places in Milwaukee You Must Not Miss, by Michelle Madden
6. Inheritance, by Dani Shapiro
7. Mushrooms of the Upper Midwest, by Teresa Marrone
8. Milwaukee River Greenway, by Eddee Daniel
9. Vegan Cooking for Two, by America's Test Kitchen
10. Invisible Child, by Andrea Elliott
One thing that's been missing from the paperback nonfiction list is the dominance of regional books that we used to see more of in past years. I can't remember last time that Milwaukee-area titles took up half the list, but I know it wasn't uncommon in the past. Both Milwaukee Scavenger and Brewtown Tales are off to good starts.
1. Moving to Mars, by Stef Wade, illustrations by Erin Taylor
2. Our World of Dumplings, by Fracie Dekker, illustrations by Sarah Jung
3. A Place for Pluto, by Stef Wade, illustrations by Melanie Demmer
4. The Very Last Leaf, by Stef Wade, illustrations by Jennifer Davidson
5. Diper överlöde V17, by Jeff Kinney
6. There's a Ghost in the House, by Oliver Jeffers
7. What Feelings Do When No One's Looking, by Tina Oziewicz, illustrations by Aleksandra Zajac
8. Pigeon Will Ride the Rollercoaster, by Mo Willems
9. Sea in the Way, by Sophie Gilmore
10. She Persisted: Sally Ride, by Atia Abawi, Chelsea Clinton, and Alexandra Boiger
Sea in the Way, the new book written and illustrated by Sophie Gilmore, is both a Jenny Pick (sales rep) and a Jen pick (our buyer). The latter writes: "Badger misses her friend Bear terribly. What do you do when your best friend lives all the way on the other side of the sea? If you’re Badger, you grumble to the sea that it is in the way. And when the sea finally agrees to let Badger cross, it is on three conditions. What starts out as a quest for Badger to see Bear ends up being something much more. The Sea in the Way is a delightful picture book with charming illustrations about friendships and new experiences."
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