1. The Woman in Suite 11, by Ruth Ware (Wilson Center July 16 event)
2. Culpability, by Bruce Holsinger (Boswell July 29 event)
3. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, by VE Schwab
4. The Emperor of Gladness, by Ocean Vuong
5. The River Is Waiting, by Wally Lamb
6. Atmosphere, by Taylor Jenkins Reid
7. The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy, by Brigette Knightley
8. My Friends, by Fredrik Backman
9. Wild Dark Shore, by Charlotte McConaghy
10. James, by Percival Everett
The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy is another breakout from the fanfic community. From the publisher: "Loyalties are tested in this slow burn, enemies-to-lovers romantasy following an assassin and a healer forced to work together to cure a fatal disease, all while resisting the urge to kill each other - or, worse, fall in love." Booklist and Library Journal reviewers loved it, while Publishers Weekly (as can increasingly be the case) had the irresistible urge to be sour.
1. America, Let Me In, by Felipe Torres Medina
2. Mark Twain, by Ron Chernow
3. Everything Is Tuberculosis, by John Green
4. Ginseng Roots, by Craig Thompson
5. The Fate of the Day, by Rick Atkinson
6. Wisconsin Supper Clubs, by Ron Faiola
7. What to Cook When You Don't Feel Like Cooking, by Caroline Chambers
8. Dinner with King Tut, by Sam Kean
9. The Creative Act, by Rick Rubin
10. Abundance, by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
It's from last year and the publisher Union Square was since sold to Hachette, but in a soft hardcover nonfiction week, What to Cook When You Don't Feel Like Cooking makes its way into our top 10. It's a New York Times bestseller and hit a number of best-of-the-year lists (Bon Appetit, Food Network, Tasting Table), so it's worth a mention. Sarah Karnasiewicz in The Wall Street Journal praised not just the recipes, but the "chatty, can-do spirit" of the author's Substack newsletter.
1. I Who Have Never Known Men, by Jacqueline Harpman
2. Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir
3. Oleander Sword V2, by Tasha Suri
4. All Fours, by Miranda July
5. Go As a River, by Shelley Read
6. Martyr, by Kaveh Akbar
7. North Woods, by Daniel Mason
8. Remarkably Bright Creatures, by Shelby Van Pelt
9. Sunburn, by Chloe Michelle Howarth
10. There Are Rivers int he Sky, by Elif Shafak
First week on the new paperback table scores a top 10 for Sunburn, by Chloe Michelle Howarth. It's a coming-of-age story set in small-town 1990s Ireland, a sapphic love story that's been nominated for the British Book Awards.
1. Caste, by Isabel Wilkerson
2. The Rediscovery of America, by Ned Blackhawk
3. Hustles for Humanists, by Erica Machulak
4. Misguided, by Matthew Facciani
5. There's Always This Year, by Hanif Abdurraqib
6. The Wide, Wide Sea, by Hampton Sides
7. The Art Thief, by Michael Finkel
8. On Tyranny graphic edition, by Timothy Snyder
9. Secret Milwaukee, by Jim Nelsen
10. Milwaukee Scavenger, by Jenna Kashou
I thought our sales pop from There's Always This Year was from our Lit Group buying upcoming books on Monday, but no, sales were clustered towards the end of the week, when our all basketball email newsletter went out - our event with Jordan Treske on this Bucks history, a Book Stall event for a book about Caitlin Clark. Hanif Abdurrqib won the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism for this book, and yes, we're discussing it on October 6 at Serenitea - we've bumped the discussion from the store so that we could host a special event on that evening.
1. Seedfolks, by Paul Fleischman
2. Crossing the Farak River, by Michelle Aung Thin
3. Good Luck Ice Cream Truck, by Sorche Fairbank, illustrations by Terry Runyan
4. The Day the Crayons Made Friends, by Drew Daywalt, illustrations by Oliver Jeffers
5. The Sherlock Society, by James Ponti (Boswell July 21 event)
6. The Wild Robot, by Peter Brown
7. Turtle in a Tree, by Neesha Hudson
8. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, by Suzanne Collins
9. Lulu and Rocky in Milwaukee, by Barbara Joosse, illustrations by Renée Graef
10. The Grandest Game, by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Mid-July tends to be a quiet time for new releases, particularly in kids. I noticed that while our sale for Seedfolks was to a school, the book, now close to thirty years old, has national sales momentum - three of the four Ingram warehouses have more on order. It's a multi-voiced story about an empty lot in Cleveland that is transformed into a community garden. Publishers Weekly gave it a star and put it on their best books of the year: "The story's quiet beauty unfurls effortlessly - and lingers after the final page has been turned." Kirkus was also positive, but complained it could have used more practical growing advice. Seems like an odd criticism for a book positioned as a novel, but oh well.
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