Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, June 7, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana BookScan © 2025 Circana.

(Reprinted from Publishers Weekly, published by PWxyz LLC. © 2025, PWxyz LLC.)

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1. "Atmosphere: A ...Read more

The Chicago Tribune once called Richard Bausch a writer’s kind of writer, “the kind passed around and treasured by other writers as models of approach and perception.”

In his expansive career, the 80-year-old Bausch, a writing professor at Chapman University in Orange, has penned 13 novels and 10 short story collections. His work has ...Read more

If all the world’s a stage, it must include the 20 hectares of barren, dusty and drought-stricken Malaysian farmland at the center of Tash Aw’s sensitively drawn novel “The South.”

This failing acreage, with its muddy pond and orchard destined for the chainsaw, seems an unlikely setting for a novel, especially one centered on teen angst...Read more

A deadly white nationalist rally convulsed a Virginia city in 2017. Deborah Baker’s “Charlottesville” comprehensively demonstrates how internet hatemongering and gun ubiquity are endangering pluralism, civic participation and good-faith debate.

Baker, the author of books about Minnesota poet Robert Bly (“Making a Farm”), Britain’s ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- It’s no secret that romance novels are on the rise.

Just ask BookTok. (Or Kansas City romance bookshop Under the Cover, for that matter. It opened in late 2023.)

But for the first time in KC, steamy titles are coming directly to readers. A romance book-mobile called Smitten Booktique is now rolling around the metro.

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LOS ANGELES — Before George Takei broke out with his role on "Star Trek" and became a cultural icon, his last name was often mispronounced.

Instead of "tuh-kay," some people would say "tuck-eye."

"I told them that's a mispronunciation, but I don't object to it because the word takai in Japanese means 'expensive,'" the actor and advocate says...Read more

Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, May 31, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana BookScan © 2025 Circana.

(Reprinted from Publishers Weekly, published by PWxyz LLC. © 2025, PWxyz LLC.)

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1. "Never Flinch: ...Read more

Louise Hegarty is a prizewinning author of short fiction, including the story “Getting the Electric,” which has been optioned for a screen adaptation.

”Fair Play” is her debut novel, and here she takes the Book Pages Q&A.

Q. Please tell readers about your new book.

My book “Fair Play” begins on New Year’s Eve 2022. A group of ...Read more

Honor Jones’ debut novel, “Sleep,” opens with 10-year-old Margaret hiding under a blackberry bush during a neighborhood game of flashlight tag.

We’ve all been there: crouched in suspense under the low branches, smelling the dirt and the night air, watching the legs of our friends dart past, everything cozy, wild, exciting.

But Margaret...Read more

CHICAGO — I have known many of the people involved in the business of making pizzas and arguing about pizzas and eating pizzas, but until a few weeks ago, I had not met Marc Malnati, who is one of the towering figures of the local pizza scene.

I met him on the 200-some pages of his book titled “Deep Dish: Inside the First 50 Years of Lou ...Read more

We Minnesotans are almost all lucky enough to live near a river. The Mississippi, Minnesota, Red, Pigeon, Cascade, Crow, St. Croix, St. Louis, Whitewater, Zumbro and thousands of other waterways flow through our state.

Rivers have shaped our landscape, economy and history. Through the eons, humans have worshiped them, abused them and sometimes ...Read more

Jordan Thomas’ “When It All Burns” is a tremendous book that deepened my understanding and appreciation not just of the men and women who serve as wildland firefighters but also of the long, tragic history of land mismanagement in the American West. Without concerted efforts to reverse our abuse of the land and a dedicated examination of ...Read more

Noël Stark has experience in almost every film and TV industry position, from writing for “Paw Patrol” to appearing on “Degrassi.”

She’s a Canadian who lives in Hollywood with her family, and “Love, Camera, Action” is her debut novel.

Q. Please tell readers about your new book.

“Love, Camera, Action” is a sizzling ...Read more

First things first: Susan Choi’s “Flashlight,” her first novel since National Book Award-winning “Trust Exercise,” is almost nothing like “Trust Exercise.”

There’s no reason it should be, of course, but readers who were introduced to her work by that blockbuster (she had published four novels before it) may expect the terse, ...Read more

Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, May 24, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana BookScan © 2025 Circana.

(Reprinted from Publishers Weekly, published by PWxyz LLC. © 2025, PWxyz LLC.)

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. "The Knight and...Read more

In “Spent,” the protagonist looks like Alison Bechdel and quacks (well, bleats) like Alison Bechdel but the subtitle “A Comic Novel” is a clue that she’s not Alison Bechdel.

The writer/cartoonist has written three graphic memoirs, including the groundbreaking “Fun Home,” but “Spent” is something different. It brings back ...Read more

We’ll never know about all the paintings destroyed or stolen by the Nazis in World War II. Were there forgotten Vermeers? Trashed Picassos? But what we do know is that a woman named Rose Valland saved tens of thousands of works.

Valland is the real-life heroine of “The Art Spy,” a curator at Jeu de Paume Museum in Paris in the 1940s. ...Read more