1. Familiaris, by David Wroblewski
2. Spirit Crossing, by William Kent Krueger
3. The God of the Woods, by Liz Moore
4. James, by Percival Everett
5. Sandwich, by Catherine Newman
6. The Woman, by Kristin Hannah
7. Remarkably Bright Creatures, by Shelby Van Pelt
8. All Fours, by Miranda July
9. The Ministry of Time, by Kaliane Bradley
10. A Season of Perfect Happiness, by Maribeth Fischer (Boswell August 28 event)
A Season of Perfect Happiness takes place in the Milwaukee area, with Ten Chimneys (the Lunt-Fontaine home) figuring prominently, and other scenes set at the Lakefront, State Fair, and at Kopps. Several couples are torn apart by secrets. As my friends Lisa and Ken said to me, "There's a lot to talk about after reading this book!" It's got some nice blurbs, including one from Liam Callanan, who called it "exquisite."
1. Land Rich, Cash Poor, by Brian Reisinger
2. Happy Days: The Official Cookbook, by Christina Ward
3. Men Have Called Her Crazy, by Anna Marie Tender
4. The Backyard Bird Chronicles, by Amy Tan
5. Celebrate with Babs, by Barbara Costello
6. On the Edge, by Nate Silver
7. The Art of Power, by Nancy Pelosi
8. The Bookshop, by Evan Friss
9. Turning to Stone, by Marcia Bjornerud
10. The Little Frog's Guide to Self Care, by Maybell Eequay
Men Have Called Her Crazy is a bestselling memoir with seven reviews on BookMarks and a lot of nice blurbs, including this from Carmen Maria Marchado: "Men Have Called Her Crazy is so many things I didn't know I needed: a testament to the work of healing, a raw howl of anger, and an indictment of misogyny's insipid, predictable, infuriating reign."
1. The Pairing, by Casey McQuiston
2. Ex-Wife, by Ursula Parrottt
3. The Iliad, by Homer, translated by Emily Watson
4. The Thursday Murder Club, by Richard Osman
5. The Silent Patient, by Alex Michaelides
6. Western Lane, by Chetna Maroo (Boswell upcoming book club selections)
7. It Ends with Us, by Colleen Hoover
8. The Overstory, by Richard Powers
9. Blood Meridian, by Cormac McCarthy
10. Goodnight Tokyo, by Atsuhiro Yoshida
I don't know what this indicates, but six of this week's top 10 were published more than a year ago, and one of the four new books is a new translation of The Iliad. I should also note that none of them are school or other bulk orders - we just sell a lot of these title. One new title (at least for English-language readers) is Goodnight Tokyo, by Atsuhiro Yoshida, which is also out of stock at all of Ingram's warehouses. The publisher calls it a cross between Agatha Christie, Teju Cole, and Hieronymus Bosch, though one of the blurbs compares it to Murakami. It's not currently on his rec shelf, but it also has a rec from Jason.
1. Future Tense, by Tracy Dennis-Tiwary
2. We Had Fun and Nobody Died, by Amy T Waldman and Peter Jest
3. King Leopold's Ghost, by Adam Hochschild
4. The Girls of Atomic City, by Denise Kiernan
5. Unmask Alice, by Rick Emerson
6. What an Owl Knows, by Jennifer Ackerman
7. Born a Crime, by Trevor Noah
8. John Gurda's Milwaukee, by John Gurda
9. A Promised Land, by Barack Obama
10. Let's Make Bread, by Ken Forkish, illustrations by Sarah Becan
Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries, written by Rick Emerson, looks at the life of Beatrice Sparks, a psychologist (maybe) who penned Go Ask Alice and several follow-ups, including Jay's Journal, which was to scare folks about Satanism the way Alice did LSD. From William Tipper in The Wall Street Journal: "Beatrice Sparks 'discovered' and 'edited' a half-dozen more such journals before her death at 95 in 2012... Her biographer makes her into something of a villain whose presence seems almost oppressive in these pages."
1. The Yellow Bus, by Loren Long
2. A Magic Fierce and Bright, by Hemant Nayak (Boswell September 29 event)
3. Buffalo Fluffalo, by Bess Kalb, illustrated by Erin Kraan
4. We Are Big Time, by Hena Khan (MPL/MMWC September 15 event)
5. Shot Clock V1, by Caron Butler and Justin A Reynolds (Racine Library September 11 event)
6. Here Lies a Vengeful Bitch, by Codie Crowley
7. Peekaboo House, by Camilla Reid, illustratitons by Ingela P Arrhenius
8. Peekaboo Pumpkin, by Camilla Reid, illustratitons by Ingela P Arrhenius
9. Bluey Beach, from Penguin Young Readers licensees - there is apparently no actual person involved with this book
10. Break to You, by Neal Shusterman, Debra Young, and Michelle Knowlden
Break to You with lead writer Neal Shusterman is the story of, to quote the author "Romeo and Juliet in juvie." We don't usually have coauthors downloaded into the author field of our inventory database. I guess this system was invented before coauthors and illustrators, but we sometimes add them by hand later. I was interested to see there two coauthor for this one. Shusterman and Knowlton worked together previously and brought in Young, a mutual friend. Alas, Young passed away before publication. More in Nerd Daily.
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