1. Black Wolf V20, by Louise Penny
2. Shadow Ticket, by Thomas Pynchon
3. Alchemised, by SenLinYu
4. Tom's Crossing, by Mark Danielewski (Boswell ticketed event December 13)
5. King Sorrow, by Joe Hill
6. Buckeye, by Patrick Ryan (Ticket sales have ended for November 5 event)
7. The Impossible Fortune V5, by Richard Osman
8. Heart the Lover, by Lily King
9. What We Can Know, by Ian McEwan
10. The Secret of Secrets V6, by Dan Brown
Lead debut was Louise Penny's latest, which I'm glad to say sold a few more copies than #19 in its first week. While some mystery series can be read out of order, The Black Wolf is a continuation of the plot of The Grey Wolf. From Publishers Weekly: "Penny's talent for nail-biting suspense and quiet character moments fuse with surprisingly topical subject matter to deliver an unputdownable installment of an ever reliable series."
1. Milwaukee Flavor, from Visit Milwaukee (Boswell November 17 event)
2. The Uncool, by Cameron Crowe
3. The Gales of November, by John U Bacon
4. 1929, by Andrew Ross Sorkin
5. Strong Ground, by Brené Brown
6. Expensive Basketball, by Shea Serrano
7. 107 Days, by Kamala Harris
8. Giving Up Is Unforgivable, by Joyce Vance
9. The Talisman of Happiness, by Ada Boni
10. We the People, by Jill Lepore.
Our top debut is The Uncool, by Cameron Crowe, but I loved the comment from a buyer of Shea Serrano's Expensive Basketball, so that's what I'm including. He said, "When I worked at Half Price Books, if a book came in looking like this (no dust jacket, cloth binding), it was considered unsellable and we put it straight in the discard bin." He bought it, of course - jacketless is the new jacketed! From Kirkus: "Serrano is great at exploring how fans' memories of their favorite players intermingle with important events from their lives...Infectiously enthusiastic appraisals of NBA and WNBA stars."
1. Cannery Row, by John Steinbeck
2. I Who Have Never Known Men, by Jacqueline Harpman
3. Little Alleluias, by Mary Oliver
4. The Dispossessed, by Ursula Le Guin
5. The Lion Women of Tehran, by Marjan Kamali
6. The Safekeep, by Yael Van Der Wouden (Boswell-run book clubs)
7. Your Name Here, by Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff
8. The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
9. Mate, by Ali Hazelwood
10. Golden Son V2, by Pierce Brown
If you are surprised to see the new book from Helen (The Last Samurai and The English Understand Wool) DeWitt come from Dalkey Archive, you're probably not alone. That said, it's rather an unusual book! From the publisher: "A book of unparalleled scope and vision, Your Name Here is a spectacular honeycomb of books-within-books. In this death-defying feat of ambition, collaborators Helen Dewitt and Ilya Gridneff weave together America's 'War on Terror,' countless years of literary history, authorial sleight of hand, Scientology, dream analysis, multiple languages, emails, images, graphs, into something wondrous and unique."
1. Lincoln's Counterfeiters, by Andrea Nolen (signed copies)
2. A Sheepdog Named Oscar, by Dara Waldron (signed copies)
3. Rippel, by William Powers
4. Birds of the Great Lakes, by Dexter Patterson (Schlitz Audubon November 20 event)
5. Roar, by Stacy T Sims
6. The Artists Way, by Julia Cameron
7. The Chaos Machine, by Max Fisher
8. Book and Dagger, by Elyse Graham
9. Meet the Neighbors, by Brandon Keim
10. Don't Say Please, by Sahan Jayasuriya
Selling off the new paperback table is Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II, which had okay sales for us in 2024, but notably for paperback success, it continued to sell regularly in 2025. It has wo raves, four positives, and a mixed on BookMarks, including this from Bryn Stole in The Washington Post: "Graham’s account is well-researched and scrupulously footnoted, but she also writes with a pulpy panache that turns the book into a well-paced thriller."
1. Dragonborn, by Struan Murray
2. Sole Survivor, by Norman Ollestad and Brendan Kiely
3. Rock Paper Incisors V3, by Amy Klassen
4. The Free State of Jax, by Jennifer A Nielsen
5. Egg Marks the Spot V2, by Amy Timberlake
6. Skunk and Badger V1, by Amy Timberlake
7. Iceberg, by Jennifer A Nielsen
8. Uprising, by Jennifer A Nielsen
9. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Partypooper V20, by Jeff Kinney
10. Incredibly Penelope, by Lauren Myracle
We are at peak school visit this week with in-person programs from Struan Murray, Jennifer Nielsen, and Amy Timberlake, plus a virtual event with Norman Ollestad and Brendan Kiely. It's also release week for Jeff Kinney and Partypooper, who visited Milwaukee last year. Murray's Dragonborn is a hot kids book this fall, the latest dragon-centric fantasy, and with sprayed-edge flare too. Says Kirkus: "Come for the dragons but stay for the suspenseful reveals and relatable characters."
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