Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Oct. 17, 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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CHICAGO — For Izidora Angel, translating books from her native Bulgarian to English is akin to an actor reading a script.

She’ll start by writing five or 10 pages in order to understand the author’s voice — the cadence, the emotional beats. Then she’s able to fully inhabit it.

“You have to find all the nooks and crannies of it … ...Read more

In the opening chapter of “The Tulip Poplars,” a teenage Tom Foster arrives at a community dance upon his beloved mule, Daisy, and quickly finds a dance partner in his childhood friend, Maeve.

The two spend the night reeling and twirling to old-time Appalachian music. But Maeve is not the person Tom longs to dance with. That is his friend, ...Read more

Deesha Philyaw’s debut short story collection, “The Secret Lives of Church Ladies,” was rejected by major publishing houses before being picked up by West Virginia University Press. The book would go on to win the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Story Prize, an LA Times Book Prize for first fiction, and it was a finalist for the ...Read more

Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Oct. 10, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana BookScan © 2026 Circana.

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LOS ANGELES — In his just-published memoir, "Sitcom," Chuck Lorre doesn't turn his life into a joke, exactly, though the voice that fueled series as disparate as "Mike & Molly," "The Big Bang Theory," "Mom" and "The Kominsky Method" also knows how to land a punch line in autobiographical prose.

And for a story that chronicles Lorre's literal ...Read more

Emily St. John Mandel touched down in Los Angeles just hours before she arrived at Botanica in Silver Lake, shirt crisp, eyes bright, not a hint of jet lag in sight. The night before, she'd been in Brooklyn, celebrating the release of her highly-anticipated "Exit Party," which is ricocheting up bestseller lists. At Botanica, Mandel tells me it's...Read more

Nicole Brown Simpson wore a long-sleeved cover-up by the beach, despite the warm weather. “We kept telling her, ‘C’mon, get in the water.’ She wouldn’t,” Denise Brown recalls of a Hawaiian vacation with her sister, Nicole, and the rest of her family, including her brother-in-law, O.J. Simpson. “We didn’t know it then, but he’d ...Read more

Emily Doyle, who received her MFA from UC Riverside, is the Los Angeles-based author of the short story collection “Please Don’t Touch the Body.”

Q. What’s something about your book that no one knows?

On its surface, “Please Don’t Touch the Body” is a book of short stories concerning what’s wonderful and horrifying about ...Read more

Harlan Coben says he always thought his fiction had nothing to do with his real life as a suburban dad. ”I make stuff up; what do I know about murder and mayhem and all these things?”

And then he wrote “Plot Twist: Life, Craft, and the Messy First Draft,” and realized how deeply his life and his writing are intertwined.

Funny enough, ...Read more

Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Oct. 3, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana BookScan © 2026 Circana.

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WASHINGTON — On the surface, it wouldn’t seem like an early-aughts teen comedy has much in common with the drawing of congressional maps.

Don’t tell that to Rory Riley Topping and Josh Rultenberg, who spend a good chunk of their new book referencing “Mean Girls.” The authors of “Draw the Line in Ohio” are on a mission to break ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — One evening a month, roughly a dozen men and women convene at the Panera Bread in Campbell, filling the dining room’s largest table and spilling into nearby booths. They’re there for Silent Book Club, where their mission for the session is to read in silence, surrounded by other people, for an hour.

Once reading time ...Read more

Robyn Gigl, author of books that include “Survivor’s Guilt” and “Nothing but the Truth,” returns with a new crime novel, “All We Hide.”

Gigl, an attorney as well as a writer, takes the Q&A to discuss the book and writing about trans life.

Q. Please tell readers about your new novel, “All We Hide.”

“All We Hide” ...Read more

This story really begins with butter chicken at a truck stop.

Because my husband’s family lives in Northern California, for the past 20 years, to make it to family gatherings, we have regularly traveled up and down the 5, the 99, the 101 — all the arteries running through California’s Central Valley and beyond.

If you know these routes, ...Read more

A new book by a veteran attraction creator offers advice regarding creative processes, goals, structure, brain-storming and transformation storytelling.

Bob Rogers’ “Deep Story: Complete Guide for Creating Transformational Visitor Attractions” is now available. He founded BRC Imagination Arts in 1981, and its projects and clients since ...Read more