1. Like Mother, Like Mother, by Susan Rieger (signed copies)
2. How to Read a Book, by Monica Wood
3. The Mighty Red, by Louise Erdrich
4. The Women, by Kristin Hannah
5. The Grey Wolf, by Louise Penny
6. We Solve Murders, by Richard Osman
7. Somewhere Beyond the Sea, by TJ Klune
8. City in Glass, by Nghi Vo
9. Intermezzo, by Sally Rooney
10. Sipsworth, by Simon Van Booy
This is only the second week in the top ten for Monica Wood's How to Read a Book, and her highest rank to date. It's a selection of a local book club and was also in our just-landed holiday newsletter. It has been showing up on the bottom reaches of our bestseller list almost every week from publication. Kathy and I were are the rec-ers for this one. I didn't expect it to get indexed on BookMarks, but it is and has three raves and a positive, including this from Helen Simonson in The New York Times: "A charming, openhearted novel, deceptively easy to read but layered with sharp observations, hard truths and rich ideas."
1. Cabinet of Curiosities, by Aaron Mahnke with Harry Marks
2. Moments of Happiness, by Mike Leckrone and Doug Moe
3. Well-Plated Every Day, by Erin Clarke
4. Be Ready When Luck Happens, by Ina Garten
5. The Demon of Unrest, by Erik Larson
6. Catland, by Kathryn Hughes
7. The Hidden Life of Trees, Graphic Adaptation, by Peter Wohlleben
8. When Women Ran Fifth Avenue, by Julie Satow
9. Revenge of the Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell
10. Little Frog's Guide to Self Care, by Maybell Eequay
First week out for Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities: A Historical Tour of the Unbelievable, the Unsettling, and the Bizarre, and we sold books at Turner Hall Ballroom for his post-event signing. We sold out of a lot of books! And to be clear, we sold out of books. His podcast Lore is considered one of the most successful ever. Cabinet of Curiosities is also a podcast, named one of Apple's "most downloaded."
1. Orbital, by Samantha Harvey
2. The Killer's Terms, by Kevin Kluesner
3. Homeland Elegies, by Ayad Akhtar
4. To Sense a Passion, by Audrey Lynden
5. The Frozen River, by Ariel Lawhon
6. Hampton Heights, by Dan Kois
7. North Woods, by Daniel Mason
8. The Bee Sting, by Paul Murray
9. The Crescent Moon Tearoom, by Stacy Sivinski
10. The Secret History, by Donna Tartt
Guess what book won the Booker Prize? Orbital has eight raves and six positives from Bookmarks, including this from James Wood in The New Yorker: "Samantha Harvey, one of the most consistently surprising contemporary British novelists, becomes something like the cosmic artificer of our era with her slim, enormous novel Orbital, which imaginatively constructs the day-to-day lives of six astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Orbital is the strangest and most magical of projects, not least because it’s barely what most people would call a novel but performs the kind of task that only a novel could dare."
1. White Women Get Ready, by Amanda Gross (signed copies available)
2. Monstrous Creatures V1, by Aaron Mahnke
3. Between the Lines, by Eric Simonson (signed copies)
4. Wicked Mortals V2, by Aaron Mahnke
5. Dreadful Places V3, by Aaron Mahnke
6. Struggle for the City, by Derek G Handley (November 19 Boswell event)
7. Mechanic Shop Femme's Guide to Car Ownership, by Chaya M Milchtein
8. The Art Thief, by Michael Finkel
9. On Tyranny, by Timothy Snyder
10. Assyria, by Eckart Frahm
Struggle for the City: Citizenship and Resistance in the Black Freedom Movement, by UWM Assistant Professor Derek G Handley looks at strategies to combat urban renewal in the Black communities of Milwaukee, Saint Paul, and Pittsburgh. We're excited about the talk on November 19 - recommend you buy your book in advance, as like many of our featured titles nowadays, the book is print on demand and that meant when it took off, we weren't able to restock in a short time frame. We have the same issue for Katie Seigenthaler's event on Monday for Kingdom of the Poor. More here on that one.
1. The Swifts, by Beth Lincoln
2. A Gallery of Rogues, by Beth Lincoln
3. Impossible Creatures, by Katherine Rundell
4. Hot Mess, by Jeff Kinney
5. Peekaboo Santa board book, by Camilla Reid, illustrations by Ingela P Arrhenius
6. Buffalo Fluffalo, by Bess Kalb, illustrations by Erin Kraan
7. Winter Light board book, by Aaron Becker
8. Garbage Crew to the Rescue, by Sherri Duskey Rinker, illustrations by AG Ford
9. The Bletchley Riddle, by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
10. Little Shrew, by Akiko Miyakoshi
The Swifts and A Gallery of Rogues are volumes one and two of a popular new middle grade series from Beth Lincoln - Lincoln visited area schools this week. From Booklist: "Taking the classic manor house whodunit for a wild ride, Lincoln mixes hidden rooms and agendas, a sprawling family with unusual naming practices, gender identity discoveries, high comedy and low punning, murder, and more, then stirs briskly." And Kirkus writes: "An absolutely delightful debut with heartwarming character growth and a clever, genre-savvy country-house mystery." Volume two's reviews were just as good, and reviews were also plentiful, which isn't always the case for the second book in a series.
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