1. Shadow Ticket, by Thomas Pynchon
2. A Mouthful of Dust, by Nghi Vo (signed copies)
3. Alchemised, by SenLinYu
4. Katabasis, by RF Kuang
5. The Secret of Secrets, by Dan Brown
6. The Impossible Fortune, by Richard Osman
7. Venetian Vespers, by John Banville
8. What We Can Know, by Ian McEwan
9. Dungeon Crawler Carl, by Matt Dinniman
10. Heart the Lover, by Lily King (Boswell October 24 event)
It looks like Penguin Press will be happy with the first week of sales for Shadow Ticket, though we're only able to get a glimpse of the independent sales channel. Our midnight release party had a decent turnout, and, witht he help of the Milwaukee setting, we're #4 on Edelweiss for the week. The BookMarks reviews were polarized - 11 raves, 6 positives, 6 mixed, and 4 pans. From Sam Sacks in The Wall Street Journal, on reflecting on the final image: "Readers will have to decide whether this is reflexive Pynchonian paranoia - the endless search for meaningful patterns - or an earnest warning from an author who has seen the world catch up to his wildest imagination."
1. Flash Teams, by Melissa Valentine and Michael Bernstein
2. Milwaukee Flavor, compiled by Visit Milwaukee (Boswell November 17 event)
3. The Gales of November, by John U Bacon (Boswell October 17 event)
4. Copaganda, by Alec Karakatsanis
5. The AI Con, by Emily Bender and Alex Hanna
6. Paper Girl, by Beth Macy
7. Good Things, by Samin Nosrat
8. Enshittification, by Cory Doctorow
9. We the People, by Jill Lepore
10. Heartland Masala, by Jyoti Mukharji and Auyon Mukharji (Discourse/Boswell October 13 event)
Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America is from Beth Macy, author of the bestselling Dopesick. She has four raves and three positives from BookMarks, including this from Leigh Haber in The Washington Post: "The portrait that emerges is of a rural county wracked by division, abandoned by industries that once supported its economy, and enduring unprecedented spikes in poverty, homelessness and addiction, as well as declines in literacy and other educational measures. In other words, Urbana, in Macy’s estimation, is a microcosm of what has been happening in rural areas throughout the country."
1. Mockingbird Court V6, by Juneau Black (signed copies)
2. The Drifter, by Nick Petrie
3. Mate, by Ali Hazelwood
4. Shady Hollow V1, by Juneau Black
5. Twilight Falls V5, by Juneau Black
6. Burning Bright, by Nick Petrie
7. Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir
8. Playground, by Richard Powers
9. When the Cranes Fly South, by Lisa Ridzén
10. The Bog Wife, by Kay Chronister
We had a nice sale on Kay Chronister's The Bog Wife in hardcover, and the paperback is off to a good start. It had four positives and a pan from Publishers Weekly, which as I've said before, has taken the crown of the bad boy of the trades away from Kirkus. Set on a West Virginia cranberry bog (who knew?), it's got this nice write up from Alana Quarles in Library Journal: "Recalling Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher, the physical decline of the Haddesleys' ancestral home becomes an allegory and monument to the destruction of their family line and their familial drift from one another, but ultimately their unyielding devotion to the land and each other ensure its survival."
1. A Sheepdog Named Oscard, by Dara Waldron (Boswell October 30 event)
2. Usual Cruelty, by Alec Karakatsanis
3. Building the Milwaukee Bucks, by Jordan Treske
4. Birds of the Great Lakes, by Dexter Patterson (Schlitz Audubon November 20 event)
5. The Shortest History of Ancient Rome, by Ross King
6. How to Dream, by Thich Nhat Hanh
7. Poets and Dreamers, by Tamara Saviano
8. Don't Say Please, by Sahan Jayasuriya
9. Lincoln's Counterfeithers, by Andrea Nolen (Boswell October 29 event)
10. The Artist's Way, by Julia Cameron
Off the new paperback table also comes The Shortest History of Ancient Rome: A Millennium of Western Civilization, from Kingdom to Republic to Empire - A Retelling for Our Times from Ross King, who last year had The Shortest History of Italy. From Kirkus: "King achieves an uncommonly dense work of compression, telescoping events and fashioning brief character studies in surveying the arc of ancient Rome, from its origins to its collapse. But he also demonstrates how the facets of empire still inform the West: in our politics, cultures, laws, and self-image."
1. Three Blue Hearts, by Lynne Kelly
2. Song for a Whale, by Lynne Kelly
3. The Secret Language of Birds, by Lynne Kelly
4. White Lies, by Ann Bausum
5. Richard Scarry's Halloween Cards and Trucks
6. The Wishing Leaf, by Kallie George
7. Spy School Blackout V13, by Stuart Gibbs
8. Jessi Ramsey Pet Sitter graphic edition V18, by Ellen T Crenshaw
9. Ghosts and Ghouls, by Ondrej Navratil, illustrated by Martin Soljdr
10. Skunk and Badger, by Amy Timberlake (Boswell October 27 event)
If it isn't clear enough from the list, we hosted Lynne Kelly for school events this week. Her new middle grade novel, Three Blue Hearts, about a boy who discovers a beached octopus, should appeal to fans of her bestselling Song for a Whale. From Publishers Weekly: " Interspersing lightly scientific marine biology-related asides among emotionally earnest first-person narration and conversations between Max and his new friends, Kelly tells a gentle, sweet-hearted tale of a tween managing personal responsibility and finding his own voice."
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