This Week's Bestsellers: December 7, 2020

Ernest Cline has the #2 book in the country with 'Ready Player Two.' Charles Yu won the National Book Award for Fiction and Holly Black's book reaches #5 on our children’s fiction list. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-12-04 05:00:00 UTC ]

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Attention: a new Jesmyn Ward novel is coming this fall.

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Victor Navasky, award-winning author and editor of the Nation, dies at 90

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What I Was Yearning For: Close-Up on Deb Caletti

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This Week's Bestsellers: January 16, 2023

Holly Black has the #6 book in the country with the YA high fantasy 'The Stolen Heir.' Plus adult romance author Talia Hibbert makes the move to YA with 'Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute,' and January book club picks hit the bestseller lists. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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This Week's Bestsellers: November 21, 2022

Tracy Wolff lands at #3 on our children’s fiction list with 'Charm,' her latest YA vampire romance. Plus Lysa TerKeurst sets 'Good Boundaries and Goodbyes,' and BookTok anoints a new bestseller. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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