1. Life, and Death, and Giants, by Ron Rindo (signed copies)
2. So Far Gone, by Jess Walter (signed copies)
3. Secret of Secrets, by Dan Brown
4. Katabasis, by RF Kuang
5. Buckeye, by Patrick Ryan (OFS Lunch November 5)
6. Clown Town, by Mick Herron
7. Culpability, by Bruce Holsinger
8. How to Read a Book, by Monica Wood
9. James, by Percival Everett
10. The Phoebe Variations, by Jane Hamilton (Boswell September 30 event)
Top non-event debut this week is Secret of Secrets, by Dan Brown. There's high quality paper on this printing, which is unusual for a thriller. That said, the list price is higher than the deluxe editions that are sprouting everywhere. BookMarks has two postives, two mixed, and one pan from the Times of London.
1. All the Way to the River, by Elizabeth Gilbert
2. What's on Her Mind, by Allison Daminger (signed copies)
3. Art Work, by Sally Mann
4. A Fine Line Between Stupid and Clever, by Rob Reiner, Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer
5. Listening to the Law, by Amy Coney Barrett
6. Dark Renaissance, by Stephen Greenblatt
7. Living in the Present with John Prine, by Tom Piazza
8. Baldwin: A Love Story, by Nicholas Boggs
9. Abundance, by Ezra Kleina and Derek Thompson
10. Arctic Passages, by Kieran Mulvaney (Shorewood Library September 15 event)
Have you noticed how many of the New York Times lists will be packed with new releases in the top ten? That's rare for us - only one or two generally break through onto our bestseller list, but this week, fully six of our top ten have September 9 on sale dates. Top debut is Elizabeth Gilbert's All the Way to the River, which has three raves, two positives, two mixed, and one pan on BookMarks as well as the Oprah Book Club seal. But it also shows that these BookMarks ratings are subject to interpretation - at least one of my coworkers thought that one of the mixed reviews was a pan.
1. Jackie, by Dawn Tripp
2. Death Stalks Door County, by Patricia Skalka (Boswell October 21 event)
3. The Women Who Stand Between, by Jeannée Sacken (Boswell September 19 event)
4. When the Cranes Fly South, by Lisa Ridzén
5. Archipelago, by Natalie Bakopoulos (signed copies)
6. Remarkably Bright Creatures, by Shelby Van Pelt
7. The Lion Women of Tehran, by Marjan Kamali
8. Candide, by Voltaire
9. Dear Committee Members, by Julie Schumacher
10. Death at Gill's Rock, by Patricia Skalka
Thanks to a professor having Boswell sell books for his class, I've read fully half the books in this top 10, which is more unusual than it used to be. Thanks, Dear Committee Members! No new releases on this list, but our recent event with Jackie pushed our ranking on paperback sales to #1 on Edelweiss. Congrats to Milwaukee Reads!
1. Don't Say Please, by Sahan Jayasuriya
2. When Women Ran Fifth Avenue, by Julie Satow
3. A Sheepdog Named Oscar, by Dara Waldron (Boswell October 30 event - a NYT bestseller!)
4. Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
5. Common Ground, by Eileen Flanagan (Boswell September 15 event)
6. Spice, by Roger Crowley
7. On Our Best Behavior, by Elise Loehnen
8. Anthropocene Reviewed, by John Green
9. Evicted, by Matthew Desmond
10. Pox Romana, by Colin Elliott
Despite our prominent book club recommendation, we are only #19 on Edelweiss in sales for When Women Ran Fifth Avenue, as this book has been huge in the Northeast and it's not doing to shabby in the West either. But while it's not us, nice to see a Midwest store is #1.
1. Over in the Garden, by Janna Matthies, illustrations by Tisha Lee
2. Spooky Lakes Coloring Book, by Geo Rutherford
3. Spooky Lakes, by Geo Rutherford (Boswell September 16 event)
4. Farmhouse, by Sophie Blackall
5. Lulu and Rocky in Milwaukee, by Barbara Joosse, illustrations by Renée Graef
6. Where's the Leaf Thief board book, by Alice Hemming, illustrations by Nicola Slater
7. What Feelings Do at Night, by Tina Oziewicz, illustrations by Aleksandra Zajac
8. No Bad Parts, by Richard Schwartz and Bethany Hegedus, illustrations by Kate Fedos
9. Incredibly Penelope, by Lauren Myracle (Wauwatosa Library October 2 event)
10. Dream, by Barbara O'Connor
Barbara O'Connor visited area schools for her new book Dream. Expect a higher placement next week. From Booklist: "In this stand-alone book that features several returning characters and a familiar setting (from Wish - 2016), the strongest asset is O'Connor's ability to let Idalee tell her story in her own, distinctive voice, while creating secondary characters who are interesting and equally true to life. An involving chapter book, set in the Blue Ridge Mountains."
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