Lauren Groff’s new collection, “Brawler,” should come with a warning because anyone who picks up the book and idly starts reading the first story will be unable to stop without finishing it.

“The Wind” is 18 nonstop pages of drama, tension and deft character sketching, beginning with this sentence: “Pretend, the mother had said when...Read more

Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Feb. 21, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana BookScan © 2026 Circana.

(Reprinted from Publishers Weekly, published by PWxyz LLC. © 2026, PWxyz LLC.)

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NEW YORK — Liza Minnelli takes an intimate, unfiltered look at her whirlwind love life in her upcoming memoir, “Kids, Wait Till You Hear This!”

The book chronicles her roller-coaster romances with men from Desi Arnaz Jr. to Martin Scorsese, in addition to her “traumatizing” marriage to David Gest.

In 1972, Minnelli got engaged to ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- There’s a little bit of everything coming to libraries and bookstores in March.

Dirt-spilling superstar memoirs? Showbiz survivor Liza Minnelli has you covered. Bound-to-be-bestselling thrillers? Tana French is on it, with the return of a beloved character last seen in 2024 in “The Hunter.” Books with Minnesota connections?...Read more

Francesca Wade is the author of “Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife,” her acclaimed biography of the iconic 20th-century author, art collector, and personality (which was also one of our picks for the best books of 2025).

Wade is also the author of “Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars,” and her work has appeared ...Read more

Jim Butcher is the author of the Dresden Files, an urban fantasy series that has sold more than 14 million copies in the U.S., as well as the Codex Alera and Cinder Spires novels.

His latest Harry Dresden book, “Twelve Months,” is out now, five years after the last installment.

Butcher took the Q&A to talk about the book and his reading ...Read more

The first time Anna Vaughn almost gets killed is on the third page of “The Method.” There will be literally dozens more “almosts” in the next 400 pages.

“The Method” is the danger-packed new thriller from Matthew Quirk, whose “The Night Agent” is the basis of the Netflix spy series. “Method” introduces a new character, ...Read more

Get ready for a deep dive into the Purple One.

Among the questions suggested by Rashad Shabazz’s “Prince’s Minneapolis” are: When the late singer wrote “slave” on his cheek to protest his record company, was he thinking about his paternal great-grandparents, who were born into slavery? When the singer contacted Jonathan Cain of the ...Read more

According to relationship scientist Paul Eastwick, online dating is a market where there are dramatic winners and losers. "I think our modern existence happens to pull from modes of interaction that really amp up the importance of mate value," Eastwick said. "But it does not have to be this way, and for a long time, it was not this way."

This ...Read more

Get ready for a deep dive into the Purple One.

Among the questions suggested by Rashad Shabazz’s “Prince’s Minneapolis” are: When the late singer wrote “slave” on his cheek to protest his record company, was he thinking about his paternal great-grandparents, who were born into slavery? When the singer contacted Jonathan Cain of the ...Read more

Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Feb. 14, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana BookScan © 2026 Circana.

(Reprinted from Publishers Weekly, published by PWxyz LLC. © 2026, PWxyz LLC.)

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LOS ANGELES — Finalists and honorees for the 46th Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were announced Wednesday.

Writer-curator Ekow Eshun is among the biography finalists for "The Strangers: Five Extraordinary Black Men and the Worlds That Made Them," which parses Black masculinity as embodied by various civil rights activists, philosophers and ...Read more

When young adult author Courtney Summers got the rights back to her backlisted titles in 2024, she initially wasn't sure what to do with them.

Summers' novels, the bulk of which enjoyed peak popularity in the 2010s, had by then faded into the periphery — despite a film adaptation of her 2012 zombie thriller "This Is Not a Test," which is ...Read more

“Within the House of Murdaugh: Amid a Unique Friendship,” is the first real insider book by anyone within the closed orbit of the ill-fated family of Alex and Maggie Murdaugh and their two children, Buster and Paul.

Written by Murdaugh housekeeper Blanca Turrubiate-Simpson, the book has a special intimacy as she writes of her yearslong ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- “There’s no place like home,” Dorothy says in “The Wizard of Oz,” a cross-stitch pillow message that hints at only part of the story.

Dorothy, of course, realizes that home is where her dreams live, but “home” is not as simple a concept for the adult siblings in Angela Flournoy’s “The Turner House,” who are ...Read more

If you’re looking for a book that feels more like a movie, “Warning Signs” may be just the ticket.

The visual terrain of Tracy Sierra’s adventure novel is so vivid that it’s easy to picture it on a big screen. Sierra’s follow-up to the riveting “Nightwatching” is set atop a mountain and in a nearby cabin, where a handful of men ...Read more

David Romero had been thinking about writing a book when he got inspiration from an unlikely place: the Green Day album “Dookie.” While scanning the song titles, Romero misread the track “Emenius Sleepus” and it sparked something in his imagination.

“I read ‘Enemy Sleeps’ and thought, ‘Wow, that’s so fascinating. What does ...Read more