Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Oct. 26, 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. "In Too Deep: ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — There’s a handwritten recipe framed on the wall of Tom Williams and Barbara Holmes’ home. They’ve never made it, but don’t think much of the creator’s cooking — or anything else about her, really.

Williams and Holmes live in the former home of Dorothea Puente, Sacramento’s notorious serial killer who lodged ...Read more

Its pages well-thumbed and portions underlined in ink, the book “Lost Chicago” sits on bookshelves across Chicago and continues to amaze and inspire.

It is a poetic photographic essay about our bygone public buildings and private residences. It is harshly critical of the city’s once cavalier attitude toward architecture, filled with 200-...Read more

These autumn months are a good time for the reader who comes in from the cold. There’s a new book about spies hitting shelves just about every week, including a sequel to “The Spy Who Came in From the Cold” called “Karla’s Choice.”

There’s something for just about every taste but, with so many spooks to choose from, it can be ...Read more

Anna Montague’s debut novel is a thoughtful and affecting story about wayward love, regret and missed opportunity. Judging by the bright jacket and snappy title, a reader would be forgiven for thinking that “How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund?” might be similar to other novels that it looks like — “Where’d You Go, Bernadette?�...Read more

Listen up: A native of Zambia, Mubanga Kalimamukwento is a lawyer who recently took the bar exam so she can practice in Minnesota (she’s awaiting her scores). She’s a Fulbright scholar. She has a master’s of fine arts degree in creative writing and just began a doctoral program in feminist studies. She’s married, with two kids. Oh, and ...Read more

There was nothing quite so joyful during the darkest days of the pandemic as going to my mailbox and finding the latest installment of “Life at the Dumpling,” my friend Trisha Cole’s hand-drawn and written newsletter waiting for me.

“The Dumpling” refers to the little Los Angeles home she shares with her husband Bruce Walrath and ...Read more

This story hasn’t even started and already it’s wrong.

John Lee Clark, whose “Touch the Future,” is out in paperback, would prefer not to be identified by the photograph at the top of the story. The St. Paul, Minnesota, native, who is DeafBlind (the terminology and spelling he prefers), won a National Magazine Award for an essay called ...Read more

These hot new mysteries range from touching to terrifying:

I’m Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom, Jason Pargin.

The mysterious black box in Pargin’s novel is the size of “a footlocker.” Inside, it may contain something that triggers an American apocalypse, or, you know, it may just be a big old “nothingburger.” Either ...Read more

COLLINGSWOOD, N.J. -- On a Wednesday afternoon, Erika Nguyen walked through the heavy wooden doors of Collingswood’s newest bookstore. She wandered over to the dark romance section and picked up "Mercy" by Sarah Cate.

Something about the cover — a mirror in a dark room with “only she can bring him to his knees” written above it — drew...Read more

Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Oct. 19, 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.)

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. "The Waiting: ...Read more

Manhattan’s Ferrari dealership wraps around a corner near landmarks like the Seagram Tower and Lever House; its plate windows look in on the planet’s most glamorous cars, a gallery seemingly plucked from the nearby Museum of Modern Art. In his alluring “The Driving Machine,” architect and urban planner Witold Rybczynski illuminates the ...Read more

One morning in June, at her home off a dirt road outside Duluth, Minnesota, Sharon McMahon tended to her many channels.

An interview for the newsletter she’d just launched needed transcribing. Posts about upcoming Supreme Court cases needed preparing. And the text on the book jacket for her upcoming book needed approving.

And, as always, ...Read more

Short in physical stature but a giant in his time, Abe Saperstein created in Chicago that international sensation called the Harlem Globetrotters.

That remains his most notable and influential accomplishment but this was a man of inexhaustible energy and ideas. You can add to that achievement such others as pioneering the three-point shot; ...Read more

This story begins in a land across the sea …

When I first learned about Katherine Rundell’s “Impossible Creatures” (after critic Ron Charles praised it in the Washington Post), the U.K. fantasy novel wasn’t yet available here in the States.

Thankfully, the book, about two young people facing a murderous threat, a mysterious landscape...Read more

Charles Baxter’s new novel, “Blood Test,” is billed as a comedy, and it is a comedy mostly in that it is not a tragedy. Is it funny? Yes, but darkly so; its humor, which is delightful, is wrapped around truths and drama and so, while we laugh, we also feel a shot of anxiety. It is a wonderfully crafted book, more complicated than it first ...Read more

Everything old is old again in Richard Osman’s latest comic mystery, “We Solve Murders.”

It’s not part of Osman’s “The Thursday Murder Club” series, but his fifth book to feature detectives who are old enough to collect pensions and read Modern Maturity. And it’s part of a wave of mysteries with sleuths who are more likely to ...Read more

Internationally acclaimed photographer Alec Soth didn’t intend to create the photo book “Advice for Young Artists.” But in September 2022, when a Plymouth hotel hosting a horror convention wouldn’t let him take pictures, he photographed various goth people he had cast for the shoot in an Airbnb.

“It became kind of this party of loners...Read more