1. The Snowbirds, by Christina Clancy
2. The Bones Beneath my Skin, by TJ Klune (UWM Feb 10 event)
3. A Forty-Year Kiss, by Nickolas Butler
4. James, by Percival Everett
5. Onyx Storm V3, by Rebecca Yarros
6. Beast of the North Woods, by Annelise Ryan (Boswell Feb 21 event)
7. Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, by Grady Hendrix
8. Tell Me Everything, by Elizabeth Strout
9. The House in the Cerulean Sea, by TJ Klune
10. We'll Prescribe You a Cat, by Syou Ishida
We had two former Milwaukeeans, Christina Clancy and Ira Madison III, launch their books at Boswell this week, plus another author, Nickolas Butler, visit Milwaukee after a couple of events in Chippewa Falls, with lots more Wisconsin events to come. The Snowbirds was particularly special as Christi had told me years ago she hoped to have a big event at Boswell when her first novel was done, but wound up doing events for her first two books virtually. People Magazine called it "a riveting exploration of midlife yearning." Signed copies available.
1. Pure Innocent Fun, by Ira Madison III
2. The Serviceberry, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
3. Life in Three Dimensions, by Shigehiro Oishi (Boswell Feb 13 event)
4. The Sirens' Call, by Chris Hayes
5. The Harder I Fight the More I Love You, Neko Case
6. Memorial Days, by Geraldine Brooks
7. The Creative Act, by Rick Rubin
8. The Comfort of Crows, by Margaret Renkl
9. The Message, Ta-Nehisi Coates
10. The Anxious Generation, by Jonathan Haidt
Goodness, February 4 sure is the first big release date of 2025, at least for the breadth of high-profile titles. Geraldine Brooks's Memorial Days probably won the BookMarks Stakes, with nine raves and two positives. They don't tabulate my staff recs, but I've got one too. From John Warner in the Chicago Tribune: "The marriage of Brooks and Horwitz is both amazing and ordinary, as perhaps most marriages are. It is terrible that it was cut so short, but Memorial Days gives due justice to what it means to live and love and experience loss."
1. The Deep End, by Ali Hazelwood
2. The Bee Sting, by Paul Murray
3. Martyr, by Kaveh Akbar
4. Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver
5. The Parable of the Sower, by Octavia Butler
6. The Frozen River, by Ariel Lawhon
7. Give Me Butterflies, by Jillian Meadows
8. Dancing with Butterflies, by Reyna Grande
9. The Great Alone, by Kristin Hannah (from the winter table)
10. The Second Home, by Christina Clancy
College swimming is the new hockey! Just ask Ali Hazelwood, whose latest is The Deep End. Publishers Weekly notes that "The chemistry between Scarlett and Lukas is volcanic thanks to Hazelwood's crisp prose and molten-hot sex scenes." Another romance to pop into our top ten this week is Give Me Butterflies, out January 21, formerly self-published. Hey, someone's got to fill the STEM-com void if Hazelwood is going to move into sports.
1. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here, by Jonathan Blitzer
2. The Distance Between Us, by Reyna Grande
3. On Tyranny, by Timothy Snyder
4. A Philosophy of Walking, by Frédéric Gros
5. While You Were Out, by Meg Kissinger
6. Typhoid Mary, by Anthony Bourdain
7. Wisconsin State Parks, Forests, and Recreation Areas, by James Buchholz
8. Sapiens, by Yuval Noah Harari
9. Becoming Ella Fitzgerald, by Judith Tick
10. Dopamine Nation, by Anna Lembke
Reyna Grande had a productive week in Milwaukee, appearing at UWM, visiting schools, and keynoting at the WSRA conference, which our friends at Books and Company covered. She's written a lot of books, but per Ingram demand, her most popular is still The Distance Between Us. Back in 2009, she appeared at Boswell for the paperback edition of Dancing with Butterflies, which appeared this week on our paperback fiction list.
1. You Are a Star, Martin Luther King, Jr, by Dean Robbins
2. You Are a Star, Jane Goodall, by Dean Robbins
3. You Are a Star, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, by Dean Robbins
4. Fowl Play, by Kristin O'Donnell Tubb
5. A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall, by Jasmine Warga
6. Life After Whale, by Lynn Brunelle
7. The Witching Wind, by Natalie Lloyd
8. Brownie the War Dog, by Kelly Nelson, illustrations by Aaron Boyd
9. The Night Librarian, by Christopher Lincoln
10. Tree. Table. Book. by Lois Lowry
We had a bit of a delayed sale to a presenation several of us gave at an area school district. One book I particularly liked was A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall, about two kids who try to solve the mystery of a missing painting. Fortuanately they get help - the ghost of the person in the painting has remained behind in the museum. From Shelf Awareness: "A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall is charmingly reminiscent of early- and mid-20th century novels like Half Magic by Edward Eager (Editor's note: squeal!) and Five Children and It by E. Nesbit, as well as those by more contemporary authors like Kate DiCamillo and Erin Entrada Kelly." I would hasten to add that Blue Balliett is a likely influence on this book.
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