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This week's bestsellers from Publishers Weekly

This week's bestsellers from Publishers Weekly

  • Publishers Weekly, Tribune News Service

Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Aug. 15, 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. © 202…

How Sherlock Holmes and My Little Pony shaped Tim Sullivan’s DS Cross novels

How Sherlock Holmes and My Little Pony shaped Tim Sullivan’s DS Cross novels

  • Erik Pedersen, The Orange County Register

The clues had been turning up for months. Beginning last year with “The Dentist” and continuing regularly throughout 2026, Tim Sullivan’s U.K. mystery novels about neurodivergent detective George Cross have been appearing on U.S. bookshelves. And now, following the rollout of his original se…

Cal Flyn explored the Earth’s wild places to write ‘The Savage Landscape’

Cal Flyn explored the Earth’s wild places to write ‘The Savage Landscape’

  • Erik Pedersen, The Orange County Register

Cal Flyn traveled tens of thousands of miles around the world to research her book, “The Savage Landscape: How We Made the Wilderness,” journeying to remote areas in Africa, Antarctica and the Amazon and encountering AK-47-toting men, isolated Indigenous communities, big game hunters, turbul…

Why Riley Sager says ‘The Unknown’ is the ‘quintessential Riley Sager book’

Why Riley Sager says ‘The Unknown’ is the ‘quintessential Riley Sager book’

  • Sarah Batcha, The Orange County Register

For his 10th novel, Riley Sager, the pen name of author Todd Ritter, wanted to celebrate all of his work and give back to his fans. He hopes fans will have fun spotting callbacks to his earlier work in “The Unknown,” but also says it has something for first-time readers. “I wanted to do some…

Sarah J. Maas reveals titles, covers for next 2 'A Court of Thorns and Roses' books

Sarah J. Maas reveals titles, covers for next 2 'A Court of Thorns and Roses' books

  • Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — Brace yourselves, BookTok: Bestselling romantasy author Sarah J. Maas just dropped the titles and covers for the sixth and seventh "A Court of Thorns and Roses" books. Maas scrubbed her Instagram of all previous posts for the big reveal, and digital billboards in Los Angeles, D…

People cannot tell whether short stories are generated by AI

People cannot tell whether short stories are generated by AI

  • dpa, dpa

BERLIN — In the latest worrying sign that people are increasingly incapable of distinguishing artificial intelligence from themselves, Cambridge University Press (CUP) has published research showing that readers give top billing to chatbot-generated writing after being misinformed that items…

This week's bestsellers from Publishers Weekly

This week's bestsellers from Publishers Weekly

  • Publishers Weekly, Tribune News Service

Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Aug. 8, 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…

This week's bestsellers from Publishers Weekly

    Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Aug. 8, 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.) HARDCOVER FICTION 1. The Calamity Club. Kathryn Stockett. Spiegel & Grau 2. The Unknown. ...

    This week's bestsellers from Publishers Weekly

    This week's bestsellers from Publishers Weekly

      Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Aug. 8, 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.) HARDCOVER FICTION 1. "The Calamity Club: A Novel" by Kathryn Stockett (Spiegel & Grau) ...

      12 crime, mystery and detective novels in translation to read this summer

      12 crime, mystery and detective novels in translation to read this summer

        There’s no mystery here: We all love a good detective novel. The genre, which arguably began with Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” has since launched a worldwide crime wave. And while there are many great mysteries written in English, you’re missing out if you don’t occasionally pick up a book in translation for a fresh take on the genre. Some authors are already well-known ...

        10 international book series that transport readers without leaving home

          Do you love traveling to exotic destinations? New things to explore around every turn? Me, too. But here’s the bad news: Airfare prices are soaring even as we speak, grounding those of us who aren’t Bill Gates. But here’s the good news: Readers can still enjoy these thrills just by sitting in their armchairs and opening a book. Everyone knows Sherlock Holmes in London, of course, but you might ...

          Column: Reconnecting with authors Colin Asher and Irvine Welsh, both with new books

          Column: Reconnecting with authors Colin Asher and Irvine Welsh, both with new books

            Writers write, and if they are good or lucky enough, what they write gets published, increasingly online but still, for many, the old-fashioned way: ink on paper in hardcover books. I reconnected with two writers and their new books in a recent edition of the New York Times Book Review, the last remaining dedicated, stand-alone print book review section in a major United States newspaper. Of ...

            This week's bestsellers from Publishers Weekly

            This week's bestsellers from Publishers Weekly

              Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Aug. 1, 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.) HARDCOVER FICTION 1. "Daggermouth" by H.M. Wolfe (Scarlett) Last week: — 2. "The Calamity ...

              This week's bestsellers from Publishers Weekly

                Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Aug. 1, 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.) HARDCOVER FICTION 1. Daggermouth. H.M. Wolfe. Scarlett 2. The Calamity Club. Kathryn ...

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