1. Atmosphere, by Taylor Jenkins Reid
2. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, by VE Schwab
3. Waterline, by Aram Mrjoian (signed copies)
4. The Emperor of Gladness, by Ocean Vuong
5. Bug Hollow, by Michelle Huneven
6. James, by Percival Everett
7. The River Is Waiting, by Wally Lamb
8. Spent, by Alison Bechdel
9. Dream Count, by Chimananda Ngozi Adichie
10. The First Gentleman, by Bill Clinton and James Patterson
I've been cheering on Bug Hollow since well before its release date last Tuesday. Regular readers of the blog know I'm a big Michelle Huneven fan ("joy and sorrow and humor in a blender") and it seems like Penguin Press has been showing the book some release love too. Raves in The Washington Post and New York Times. All raves in BookMarks except for PW, who compared the book to flipping through a yellowed photo album. And the problem with that is? For a more enthusiastic take, watch our Readings from Oconomowaukee interview.
1. Submersed, by Matthew Gavin Frank (signed copies)
2. Ginseng Roots, by Craig Thompson
3. Little Frog's Guide to Self Care, by Maybell Eequay
4. Mark Twain, by Ron Chernow
5. Abundance, by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
6. Not My Type, by E Jean Carroll
7. The Let Them Theory, by Mel Robbins
8. Everything Is Tuberculosis, by John Green
9. World Within a Song, by Jeff Tweedy
10. The Serviceberry, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Not My Type: One Person Vs a President, by E Jean Carroll pops in the first week of sale. Looking at the national lists, there are usually 5+ debuts per week on the New York Times fiction and nonfiction bestseller lists and we're lucky if a couple of them move in those kinds of quantities for us. It's also the forty year anniversary of Female Difficulties, Carroll's 1985 collection that I read. I remembered it was published by Bantam, which was back then the flagship Bertelsmann publisher, and not the imprint of one of the divisions of the American operations. Oh, the days of Yeager and Iacocca and Shirley MacLaine's Dancing in the Light, for which the woman who read the titles in the NYT bestseller hotline would sing as if she was twirling with Fred Astaire. Also there's a NYT review from Alexandra Jacobs.
1. North Woods, by Daniel Mason
2. Problematic Summer Romance, by Ali Hazelwood
3. Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir
4. Remarkably Bright Creatures, by Shelby Van Pelt
5. One Golden Summer, by Carley Fortune
6. Table for Two, by Amor Towles
7. The Thursday Murder Club, by Richard Osman
8. I Who Have Never Known Men, by Jacqueline Osman
9. Go As a River, by Shelley Read (Boswell June 27 event)
10. The Sicilian Inheritance, by Jo Piazza (Boswell July 20 event)
We're getting read for the double Readings from Oconomowaukee event for Go As a River this Friday for Go As a River, 2 pm at Boswell and 7 pm at Books and Company. The novel was on Peter Heller's NYT recommendation list for those visiting Colorado, as as Woman of Light, a recent book club pick. Shelley Read was on Mitzi Rapkin's First Draft podcast. And Books and Books's Mitchel Kaplan is one of the producers of the film version, per IMDb.
1. Warrior Princesses Strike Back, by Sarah Eagle Heart and Emma Eagle Heart-White
2. Counting Like a State, by Philip Rocco
3. The Mental Health Guide for Cis and Trans Queer Guys, by Rahim Thawer
4. On Tyranny, by Timothy Snyder
5. The Art Thief, by Michael Finkel
6. Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
7. The Wager, by David Grann
8. A Philosophy of Walking, by Frédéric Gros
9. Wisconsin Idols, by Dean Robbins
10. Attack from Within, by Barbara McQuade
With a pub date of June 3, Barbara McQuade's Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America is had a nice sales pop this week without even placing on the new paperback table (and no it's not a bulk sale - I checked). From Nina Jankowicz in The Washington Post: "It is our very democratic freedoms that make us so susceptible to disinformation. Our steadfast commitment to every individual’s right to freedom of speech as enshrined in the First Amendment renders us more vulnerable to all manner of malign actors - including foreign adversaries using sock-puppet accounts, and political ad campaigns targeted at vulnerable populations." If you are interested in this subject, we're hosting Matthew Facciani for a talk on his book Misguided on July 9.
1. The Day the Crayons Made Friends, by Drew Daywalt, illustrations by Oliver Jeffers
2. A Forgery of Fate, by Elizabeth Lim
3. Valiant Vel, by Jerrianne Hayslett, illustrations by Aaron Boyd
4. This Could Be Forever, by Ebony LaDelle (Alice's Garden June 29 event)
5. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith
6. The Kissing Hand, by Audrey Penn, illustrated by Ruth Harper
7. The Gate, The Girl, and the Dragon, by Ruth Grace Lin
8. London Calling V6, by James Ponti (Boswell July 21 event)
9. The Sherlock Society, by James Ponti (same)
10. Orris and Timble: Lost and Found, by Kate DiCamillo, illustrations by Carmen Mok
It's volume 2 of the planned trilogy of Orris (owl) and Timble (rat) in our top 10, having released in late April. From Kirkus, on Lost and Found: "Having filled his feathered friend's head with stories of quests, the bookish Orris should be unsurprised when Timble, who's growing into a mature owl and yearns to visit the stars and moon, fails to appear one night...and then the next. Still, his friend's disappearance is enough to make a rat feel fretful, as well as a little abandoned. But worry turns to resentment when Timble does at last come back...Sensitive and quietly enthralling."
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