Here is a list of the most popular books sold last month at Books Inc. in the Marina.
HARDCOVER FICTION
1. Great Big Beautiful Life, by Emily Henry
2. James, by Percival Everett
3. Onyx Storm, by Rebecca Yarros
HARDCOVER NON-FICTION
1. Abundance, by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson
2. Let Them Theory, by Mel Robbins
3. Notes to John, by Joan Didion
PAPERBACK FICTION
1. The Ministry of Time, by Kaliane Bradley
2. Remarkably Bright Creatures, by Shelby Van Pelt
3. Hello Beautiful, by Ann Napolitano
PAPERBACK NON-FICTION
1. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder, by David Grann
2. Sociopath: A Memoir, by Patric Gagne
3. Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us, by Susan Magsamen & Ivy Ross
YOUNG READERS
Young Adult: Sunrise on the Reaping, by Suzanne Collins
Middle Readers: London Calling: City Spies, vol. 6, by James Ponti
Picture Book: San Francisco: A Book of Numbers, by Ashley Evanson
Kid Graphic Novel: The Cartoonists Club, by Raina Telgemeier & Scott McCloud
NEW AND NOTABLE RELEASES
Atmosphere: A Love Story, by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Thoughtful and reserved, Joan is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University and as aunt to her precocious niece, Frances. That is until she comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASA’s space shuttle program. Suddenly, Joan burns to be one of the few people to go to space.
As new astronauts become unlikely friends and prepare for their first flights, Joan finds a passion and a love she never imagined. In this new light, Joan begins to question everything she thinks she knows about her place in the observable universe.
Then, in December of 1984, on mission STS-LR9, it all changes in an instant. Fast-paced, thrilling, and emotional, Atmosphere is Taylor Jenkins Reid at her best: transporting readers to iconic times and places, creating complex protagonists, and telling a passionate and soaring story about the transformative power of love — this time among the stars.
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, by V.E. Schwab
This is a story about hunger. 1532. Santo Domingo de la Calzada.
A young girl grows up wild and wily — her beauty is only outmatched by her dreams of escape. But María knows she can only ever be a prize, or a pawn, in the games played by men. When an alluring stranger offers an alternate path, María makes a desperate choice. She vows to have no regrets.
This is a story about love. 1827. London. A young woman lives an idyllic but cloistered life on her family’s estate until a moment of forbidden intimacy sees her shipped off to London. Charlotte’s tender heart and seemingly impossible wishes are swept away by an invitation from a beautiful widow — but the price of freedom is higher than she could have imagined.
This is a story about rage. 2019. Boston. College was supposed to be her chance to be someone new. That’s why Alice moved halfway across the world, leaving her old life behind. But after an out-of-character one-night stand leaves her questioning her past, her present, and her future, Alice throws herself into the hunt for answers … and revenge.
Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers, by Claire Fraser
Indelibly mapping the lives and careers of Ted Bundy and his infamous peers in mayhem — the Green River Killer, the I-5 Killer, the Night Stalker, the Hillside Strangler, even Charles Manson — Fraser’s Northwestern death trip begins to uncover a deeper mystery and an overlapping pattern of environmental destruction. At ground zero in Ted Bundy’s Tacoma stood one of the most poisonous lead, copper, and arsenic smelters in the world, but it was hardly unique in the West. As Fraser’s investigation inexorably proceeds, evidence mounts that the plumes of these smelters not only sickened and blighted millions of lives but also warped young minds, including some who grew up to become serial killers.
A propulsive nonfiction thriller that transcends true-crime voyeurism and noir mythology, taking readers on a profound quest into the dark heart of the real American berserk.
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