1. The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, by Stephen Graham Jones
2. The Paris Express, by Emma Donoghue (CelticMKE March 31 event)
3. The God of the Woods, by Liz Moore
4. James, by Percival Everett
5. The Antidote, by Karen Russell
6. The Tomb of Dragons, by Katherine Addison
7. 33 Place Brugmann, by Alice Austen
8. The Human Scale, by Lawrence Wright
9. The Dream Hotel, by Laila Lalami
10. The Bones Beneath My Skin, by TJ Klune
Top honors this week go to The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, the latest novel from Stephen Graham Jones. From the publisher: "A chilling historical horror novel set in the American west in 1912 following a Lutheran priest who transcribes the life of a vampire who haunts the fields of the Blackfeet reservation looking for justice." Four raves from BookMarks, including Randy Boyagoda in The New York Times: "None of this will be any surprise to readers of Jones’s past fiction, which has confidently mashed up various horror genres with pointed explorations of Native American experience...He has created a novel that invites us to reflect on how the stories we tell about ourselves can be at once confessions and concealments. At the same time, he’s using this framework to set up some scary, big reveals."
1. Funny Because It's True, by Christine Wenc (signed copies)
2. Everything Is Tuberculosis, by John Green
3. Abundance, by Ezra Klein
4. Careless People, by Sarah Wynn-Williams
5. The Sixth Wisconsin and the Long Civil War, by James Marten (Boswell April 8 event)
6. The Let Them Theory, by Mel Robbins
7. The Serviceberry, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
8. Who Is Government?, by Michael Lewis
9. Raising Hare, by Chloe Dalton
10. Dear Miss Perkins, by Rebecca Brenner Grahm (Boswell April 6 event)
The BookMarks round up (two raves, a positive, and two mixed) doesn't really capture the demand for Abundance, the new book from Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson. From the publisher: "This is not just another book that breaks down the many ways our elected leaders on the right or left have failed us. Like Thomas Friedman's The World Is Flat, this book names and diagnoses an important macro trend, one that lives at the heart of America's biggest problems and the global question of progress: that progressives are too focused on demand while they block innovation and supply; and that too many groups preserve scarcity when they ought to build abundance. Klein and Thompson hope to change the way people think about politics and law in the way that a book like Jane Jacobs's The Life and Death of Great American Cities reshaped policy-thinking for a generation, or longer." From Henry Grabar in Slate: "If the book’s vision of a world after abundance seems distant, its optimism is also compelling, even joyous."
1. Martyr, by Kaveh Akbar
2. My Brilliant Friend, by Elena Ferrante
3. I Who Have Never Known Men, by Jacqueline Hardman
4. The Paradise Problem, by Christina Lauren
5. Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro
6. The Vegetarian, by Han Kang
7. Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver
8. The Parable of the Sower, by Octavia E Butler
9. Funny Story, by Emily Henry
10. Unworthy, by Agustina Bazterrica
It's a bit unusual for a Belgian Science Fiction author from 1997 with a current edition from 2022 to take off, but sales this year for I Who Have Never Known Men at Boswell are almost double 2024, and that's without any group sales. Transit Books, an indie press, uses the tagline: "Ursula K. LeGuin meets The Road in a post-apocalyptic modern classic of female friendship and intimacy." Its' a selection of the Dua Lipa Service95 Book Club. What do you know? They just read The Bee Sting.
1. On Tyranny graphic edition, by Timothy Snyder
2. Poverty, by America, by Matthew Desmond
3. Murdle V1, by GT Karber
4. Mutual Aid, by Dean Spade
5. On Tyranny, by Timothy Snyder
6. This Is How a Robin Drinks, by Joanna Brichetto
7. A Philosophy of Walking, by Frédéric Gros
8. Elemental, by Stephen Porder
9. Grief Is for People. by Sloane Crosley
10. Three Women, by Lisa Taddeo
This Is How a Robin Drinks: Essays on Urban Nature hasn't been on the new paperback table but with more than one sale in a week and a nice blurb from Margaret Renkl ("Profoundly beautiful, desparately necessary), perhaps it will take off. From Booklist: "Certified Tennessee Naturalist Brichetto, who shares her nature writing on the website Sidewalk Nature, compiles a series of humorous and educational short essays. 'This is my almanac: sketches arranged by season, set in the backyard, the sidewalk, the park, the parking lot, connected by urgent wonder.'"
1. Sunrise on the Reaping, by Suzanne Collins
2. Giving Good, by Aaron Boyd
3. Our Infinite Fates, by Laura Stephen
4. The ABCs of Spring board book, by Jill Howarth
5. Every Monday Mabel, by Jashar Awan
6. Dog Man V13: Big Jim Begins, by Dav Pilkey
7. Peek Inside Springtime, by Anna Milbourne, illustrations by Stephanie Fizer Coleman
8. Grumpy Monkey Spring Fever, by Suzanne Lang, illustrations by Max Lang
9. Peek a Flap Grow, by Jay Garnett, illustrations by Bao Luu
10. Under the Same Stars, by Libba Bray
No question, the book book for this week was Suzanne Collins's Hunger Games prequel, Sunrise on the Reaping. No reviews on the Ingram website, but we've already had several great reads. Can't wait a staff rec to be written down!
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