Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Sept. 28, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana BookScan © 2024 Circana.

(Reprinted from Publishers Weekly, published by PWxyz LLC. © 2024, PWxyz LLC.)

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1. "Counting ...Read more

Eliza Griswold’s “Circle of Hope” is about four pastors at a Philadelphia church riven by its response to racial discrimination after a Minneapolis police office murdered George Floyd in 2020. Hahrie Han’s “Undivided” focuses on four parishioners of a Cincinnati church having similar conversations after several police shootings of ...Read more

Nature writer Leigh Ann Henion opens her sweet, wise “Night Magic” with a haunting story. A child lost in the woods overnight is found “curled like a baby rabbit among leaf litter.” Before picking him up, his rescuer kneels next to him and gently asks what he heard and felt overnight, then explains to him what those things were, ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Back in 2001, Eve released a single that provided the West Philly rapper with her signature song. It also gave her a ready-made title should she ever decide to write a memoir about her career as a Grammy-winning artist, actress, and TV star.

Now that memoir, "Who's That Girl?" written with hip-hop journalist Kathy Iandoi, has ...Read more

Joe Kenda says that he understood that his true-crime series “Homicide Hunter” and “American Detective” are seen in 180 different countries in 50 different languages.

But this didn’t fully hit home until a friend returned from a stay in a small village in Kashmir Province on the border of Pakistan and India where she worked as a ...Read more

When an editor asked Alice Hoffman to write a novel about Anne Frank, the prolific author didn’t think of the complexity of the research or the enormity of the subject matter.

She just thought of herself at age 12, discovering Frank’s “The Diary of a Young Girl.”

That was the book that taught her that a young Jewish girl could be a ...Read more

Fans of Sharon McMahon’s “Here’s Where It Gets Interesting” podcast will feel right at home with her book “The Small and the Mighty.”

The Duluth writer’s debut echoes the there’s-more-to-the-story-than-you-learned-in-history-class approach of “Interesting.” Mostly, McMahon dives into the tales of Americans — mostly female,...Read more

We’re deep in autumn, the season when many of the biggest-name writers unleash their latest books. The hope is that they’ll fly off library and bookstore shelves and/or stake their places in the race for honors like the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize.

Here are five books we can’t wait to read in October:

Albertus: the Bio of a ...Read more

Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Sept. 21, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana BookScan © 2024 Circana.

(Reprinted from Publishers Weekly, published by PWxyz LLC. © 2024, PWxyz LLC.)

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1. "The Butcher ...Read more

Viewers of “Dopesick,” a 2021 TV miniseries drama about the damage wrought by opioid addiction, may recall that even the well-meaning small-town doctor who prescribed OxyContin to his patients without realizing its dangers eventually gets hooked himself.

If there’s anyone harder than that doctor to imagine succumbing to opioids’ ...Read more

Did you know there’s a very specific reason we have a fall book season?

It’s not the only reason, but it’s the reason that set this cultural cycle in motion. Long story short: As New York and Philadelphia became hubs for publishing in the United States, there was a need to sell more books to a burgeoning Midwest — Chicago, St. Louis, ...Read more

At the beginning of Rumaan Alam’s last novel, the 2020 bestseller and National Book Award finalist “Leave the World Behind,” a married couple and their two children set out from Brooklyn to a luxury house at the end of Long Island to begin a family vacation. On the way, they pass towns that are home to either blue-collar or middle-class ...Read more

Thirty years ago, I appeared on Oprah’s television show to discuss the memoir I had published about my marriage, which ended in widowhood “due to complications of AIDS.” A few weeks before the taping, the producer called to see if I could help find other guests: other women who, like me, had married gay men.

Actually, I couldn’t think ...Read more

In case you’re not a Gen Xer with immediate knowledge of all things Moon Unit Zappa, let’s review: The 56-year-old Angeleno is many things – a writer, actor, mother and yoga teacher, who also happens to be the daughter of avant-garde musician and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Frank Zappa, and the voice of his only Top 40 commercial hit, “...Read more

It’s maybe the summer’s most sought-after galley: Sally Rooney’s “Intermezzo,” her fourth novel, has a lot of hype to live up to.

The Irish writer — known for exploring interpersonal relationships and Irish class and political structures in “Normal People” and “Conversations with Friends” — takes on a tale of two brothers,...Read more

If you feel certain your preferred candidate will lose the presidential election, that AI is coming for your job or that climate change is going to destroy humanity, then you have fallen prey to a cynical mindset, and you're far from alone.

Over the past 50 years, cynicism has spread like a virus across American society, infecting us with the ...Read more

How much do you know about the battle of Yarmouk in 636 AD, when an Arab army first destroyed a major Christian force near Syria’s borders with Israel and Jordan? Or the First Crusade, when Frankish knights took Jerusalem in 1099, slaughtering virtually every Muslim and Jew in the city? Or the battle of Lepanto, in 1571, when news of the ...Read more