Here is a list of the most popular books sold last month at Books Inc. in the Marina:
HARDCOVER FICTION
1. Intermezzo, by Sally Rooney
2. The Wedding People, by Alison Espach
3. The God Of The Woods, by Liz Moore
HARDCOVER NON-FICTION
1. The Message, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
2. Revenge Of The Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering, by Malcolm Gladwell
3. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI, by Yuval Noah Harari
PAPERBACK FICTION
1, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin
2. Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver
3. The Best Short Stories 2024: The O. Henry Prize Winners, edited by Amor Towles & Jenny Minton
PAPERBACK NON-FICTION
1. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession, by Michael Finkel
2. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England’s Kings and Queens, by David Mitchell
3. The Courage To Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness, by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga
YOUNG READERS
Young Adult: Glass Girl, by Kathleen Glasgow
Middle Readers: The Wild Robot, by Peter Brown
Graphic Novel: InvestiGators: Class Action, by John Patrick Green
NEW AND NOTABLE RELEASES
The City And Its Uncertain Walls, by Haruki Murakami
Bestselling and multi-award-winning Murakami, who most recently won the Cino Del Duca World Prize, offers his first novel in six years. It revisits the otherworld known as the City, which was first introduced in Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World. The story is being described as a quest, a parable, and an ode to books and libraries.
Cher: The Memoir, Part One, by Cher
After more than 70 years of fighting to live her life on her own terms, Cher finally reveals her true story in intimate detail, in a two-part memoir. Her remarkable career is unique and unparalleled. The only woman to top Billboard charts in seven consecutive decades, she is the winner of an Academy Award, an Emmy, a Grammy, and a Cannes Film Festival Award, and an inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame who has been lauded by the Kennedy Center. As a dyslexic child who dreamed of becoming famous, Cher was raised in often-chaotic circumstances, surrounded by singers, actors, and a mother who inspired her in spite of their difficult relationship. With her trademark honesty and humor, she traces how this diamond in the rough succeeded with no plan and little confidence to become the trailblazing superstar the world has been unable to ignore for more than half a century. This first volume follows her extraordinary beginnings through childhood to meeting and marrying Sonny Bono — and reveals the highly complicated relationship that made them world-famous, but eventually drove them apart.
Teller Of Small Fortunes, by Julie Leong
Geopolitical unrest between the kingdoms of Shinara and Eshtera complicates a nomadic foursome’s journey in Leong’s quirky debut. Tao, the eponymous Shinn fortune teller, travels Eshtera offering clients brief, inconsequential glimpses of their future. After ex-mercenary Mash helps Tao evade a fallen tree, she repays him with one such prophecy, foreseeing that he will give his daughter a kitten. She doesn’t realize that his daughter, Leah, has been missing for six months and that he’s desperately searching for her. Mash is skeptical of Tao’s talents, but he and his best friend, Silt, an ex-thief, demand to accompany her to her next town in case she offers any more clues to Leah’s whereabouts. Kina, a baker craving adventure, also joins them after Tao sees a vision of Kina traveling with her. Along the way, the quartet faces down threats including anti-Shinn prejudice, a cursed sentient rock troll with existential ennui, and a magefinder eager to conscript Tao. Leong does a good job of balancing adventure, friendship among endearing outsiders, and humor with a thoughtful exploration of immigrant struggle. This whimsical and heartfelt tale is sure to win admirers.
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