1. Yesteryear, by Caro Claire Burke (signed copies)
2. Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light, by Joy Harjo
3. Things We Never Say, by Elizabeth Strout
4. The Correspondent, by Virginia Evans
5. The Ballad of Falling Dragons V2, by Sarah A Parker
6. A Parade of Horribles V8, by Matt Dinniman
7. The Calamity Club, by Kathryn Stockett
8. John of Johns, by Douglas Stuart
9. Our Perfect Storm, by Carley Fortune
10. Palaces of the Crow, by Ray Nayler
The Ballad of Falling Dragons, the sequel to When the Moon Hatched, is available in a regular and deluxe edition. Jason brought in the deluxe edition and I suspect he will convert to the regular (it's only $2 more for deluxe) when the deluxe is no longer available. There's a Booklist review - ""A spellbinding slow-burn, romance-laced fantasy featuring two fascinating protagonists" - but for some reason, neither edition lists it in full on ipage. And weirder than that, it's not showing up on the Booklist website. What a mystery! Where is Richard Osman when you need him?
1. Girl Warrior, by Joy Harjo
2. The Five-Year Century, by Mihir Shukla and Nancy Hauge
3. The Lao Kitchen, by Saeng Douangdara (signed copies)
4. London Falling, by Patrick Radden Keefe
5. How to Rule the World. by Theo Baker
6. American Patriarch, by HW Brands
7. The Gales of November, by John U Bacon
8. The Story of Birds, by Steve Brusatte
9. Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young, by Zayd Ayers Dohrn
10. Famesick, by Lena Dunn
Four weeks out and first time in our top ten (or on our bestseller list at all) for The Story of Birds: A New History from Their Dinosaur Origins to the Present, which is already on and off the New York Times bestseller list. Lots more books get their week in the sun than I remember from earlier days. Once again, no reviews on ipage - Kirkus, PW, Booklist. Are books just not being submitted? I did notice that a good number of reviews in Kirkus magazine are later than I would have expected. In any case, Jennifer Ackerman blurbed the book as "sensational."
1. Theo of Golden, by Allen Levi
2. American Sunrise, by Joy Harjo
3. Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir
4. Angel Down, by Daniel Kraus
5. Dirty 20, by Bill Schweigart (signed copies)
6. The Crucible, by Arthur Miller
7. Trad Wife, by Saratoga Schaefer (Boswell June 9 event)
8. The Lion Women of Tehran, by Marjan Kamali
9. Dungeon Crawler Carl, by Matt Dinniman
10. The Life of Pi, by Yann Martel
Angel Down breaks the current curse of the even-yeared Pulitzers not breaking out. Both 2022's The Netanyahus and 2024's Night Watch did not, to my recollection, spend much time on the national bestseller lists, but Kraus's latest jumps onto the New York Times and has a nice pop at Boswell. I should note that it is the favorite novel of 2025 from not one but two Boswellians.
1. Cultura and Cash, by Giovanna Gonzalez
2. Bear Tracks, by Sherman Funmaker
3. Crazy Brave, by Joy Harjo
4. Puerto Rico, by Jorell Melendez Badillo
5. Midwestern Death Trip, by Meaghan Garvey (Boswell June 15 event)
6. Dinner with King Tut, by Sam Kean
7. Three Women, by Lisa Taddeo
8. Beer Hiking Minnesota, Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula, by Kristen Radaich (Boswell June 5 event)
9. Penelope's Bones, by Emily Hauser
10. Fun Home, by Alison Bechdel
Selling off the new paperback table (it's actually before pub date, but that's okay with most university presses) is Penelope's Bones: A New History of Homer's World Through the Women Written Out of It. From a review of the hardcover in Choice: "In this eloquent book, Hauser aims to put the experiences of Homeric women and goddesses center stage, countering the silence imposed on them by the epics. This is needed, she states, to address the 'fundamental incompatibility between the claim the epics make that women don't matter, and the fact that in every case they are essential to the story and the myth.'"
1. Lulu and Rocky in Milwaukee, by Barbara Joosse, illustrations by Renée Graef
2. After the ABCs, by D Marie Grainkeeper
3. Life on Mars, by Jon Agee
4. For a Girl Becoming, by Joy Harjo, illustrated by Adriana Garcia
5. Remember, by Joy Harjo, illustrated by Michaela Goade
6. The Story of All Stories, by Emily Stimpson Chapman
7. Spy School Secret Service graphic novel V5, by Stuart Gibbs
8. Peekaboo Dinosaurs, by Camilla Reid, illustrations Ingela P Arrhenius
9. Valian Vel, by Jerrianne Hayslett, illustrations by Aaron Boyd
10. We Are Mighty, by Sharon McMahon
Note that I normally limit titles from one author to three, especially when they sold because of an event. But Joy Harjo gets six on today's write up because she's the first author I can remember to get books on all five of our bestseller lists. I include just the top seller on each of the four adult categories, and you can just fill in that we sold lots of different Joy Harjo books in quantity.
Harjo's two picture books that sold were Remember (2023) and From a Girl Becoming (2025). Remember was named an American Indian Library Association Honor Book, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book and was a best of the year for most of the trades (Kirkus etc). From a Girl Becoming got starred reviews in Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, and Kirkus, who called it "a boon to any bookshelf."
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