Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, July 5, 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

Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, July 5, 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. "Atmosphere: A ...Read more

Where’s Amelia?

We’re still looking, though recent events seem to offer the possibility, the possibility I emphasize, that we may find out what happened to aviatrix Amelia Earhart, who, along with navigator Fred Noonan, vanished in their twin-engine Lockheed Model 10E Electra as they attempted to fly around the world.

Here’s a recent ...Read more

Vice President Kamala Harris had a better rapport with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and saw him as a preferable fit to be her No. 2 — but she wrestled with whether Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro would be the more strategic choice in the campaign against Donald Trump, in a decision that came down to the wire last summer.

The final deliberations are...Read more

Dick Wolf might want to take a gander at “V is for Venom.”

Wolf is the creative force behind the various, long-running “Law & Order” shows, “Chicago” and “FBI” offshoots, too. Well over 1,000 episodes in, collectively, I figure he has to be running out of ways to off people. Enter the inventively homicidal Agatha Christie.

Over...Read more

Karen Powell, whose previous novel is “The River Within,” is the author most recently of “Fifteen Wild Decembers.”

Q. Please tell readers about your novel, “Fifteen Wild Decembers.”

Like many readers, I first discovered Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights” as a teenager. I was mesmerized by the wild moorland landscape she ...Read more

The title of “The Original” refers to: A. The painting its heroine, Grace, copies. B. Grace’s cousin, Charles, who disappears and then (allegedly) returns, more than a decade later. C. The idea that we are all constantly changing and that trying to revert to a previous version of ourselves dooms us to failure.

I’m sure there are more ...Read more

One of the best ways to take your investing skills to the next level quickly is to learn from the masters. The insights and wisdom gleaned from the experts — all for the cost of a book — can help you fine-tune your stock-picking skills and venture beyond your usual hunting grounds.

The best investing books are those that have stood the test...Read more

For the past 30 years, Kate Elliott has written fantasy, science fiction, space opera, Young Adult fantasy, as well as two novellas set in the Magic: The Gathering multiverse.

Her work has been nominated for the Nebula, World Fantasy, Norton, and Locus Awards. The Hawaii-based author’s latest is “The Witch Roads,” the first in an epic ...Read more

Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, June 28, 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. "Don’t Let ...Read more

If “Food Person” were a menu item, it would be something like a BLT or mac and cheese: cozy, simple and fun.

Adam Roberts, who has a food blog called “The Amateur Gourmet” and a podcast called “Lunch Therapy,” makes his fiction debut with “Food Person,” which the marketers would probably love to see referred to as “The Devil ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- Before “Midnight at the Cinema Palace” was done, before it even had a publisher, novelist Christopher Tradowsky’s debut novel had won a major award.

The St. Paul, Minnesota-based writer won a $5,000 prize for emerging writers over 50 from Lambda Literary (which champions LGBTQ writers) in 2023. At the time, he had worked on...Read more

You’re a kid. You catch a few seconds of something strange on TV. Those few seconds have a way, sometimes, of paying a call decades later.

It happened to author, critic and film curator Michael Koresky. His absorbing new book is “Sick and Dirty: Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness,” and just as he was writing ...Read more

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Like just about everyone who grew up at a time when a few networks decided what Americans watched on their television sets, author Todd S. Purdum knew all of the antics of Lucy and Ricky Ricardo, the characters played by Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, on the ’50s sitcom “I Love Lucy.”

“It was unavoidable in syndication...Read more

If you know the name Angelica Schuyler, you just might be a fan of “Hamilton,” where she stole the show by belting out “Satisfied.” And the musical just might have given you the impression Angelica was deeply in love with her brother-in-law Alexander Hamilton.

A new biography, “Angelica,” doesn’t claim to clarify that. But it does...Read more

English farmer James Rebanks is famous for his books about restoring the health of his Lake Country farm (“ Pastoral Song,” “ The Shepherd’s Life”). In his third memoir, it is his own health that needs restoring. He is at a low point — his father has died and his work feels futile. He’s frustrated and angry.

“Ours is a dark and ...Read more

In the 2020 graphic memoir "They Called Us Enemy," George Takei took readers into the U.S. government’s internment of approximately 120,000 people of Japanese descent in American concentration camps during World War II. Takei, best known for his role as "Star Trek’s" Hikaru Sulu, can claim an unfortunate degree of authority on the topic. He ...Read more