Cape Carnage is a seaside town of colorful houses, quirky shops, and an unusually high body count. With tourists comes trouble, and Harper Starling won’t let anyone ruin her picture-perfect home. A skilled gardener with killer instincts, Harper protects her sanctuary—and her aging mentor with a fading memory—at any cost. Troublesome tourists don’t check out of Carnage. They compost beneath Harper’s award-winning flowerbeds.
There are a ton of new titles on the bestseller lists this week, which makes for a nice change! Laurie Gilmore made a name for herself in seasonal romance with the Dream Harbor series, starting with The Pumpkin Spice Café. The newest Christmas romance in the series, The Gingerbread Bakery, is appearing on this list a little early for the holiday.
Other new titles this week include The Academy by Elin Hilderbrand and Shelby Cunningham, Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love by Samin Nosrat, and The Last Letter by Rebecca Yarros.
Unfortunately, right-wing pundit Bill O’Reilly is also on the bestseller list this week. He was fired from Fox News after a series of sexual harassment lawsuits and an exposé by the New York Times, and that’s just one of many controversies, so it’s disappointing that he still has an audience.
This list continues to lack of diversity on many levels, including being disproportionately by white authors. Some Indie Bestsellers you should know about are Katabasis by R. F. Kuang, The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy, and One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad.
To get these numbers, we look at the New York Times, both Combined Print & E-Book Fiction and Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction lists; Amazon Charts, both Fiction and Nonfiction; Publishers Weekly; USA Today; and Indie Bestsellers, Fiction and Nonfiction, both Paperback and Hardcover.
Books On All Five Bestseller Lists:
The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown
Books On Four Bestseller Lists:
Poems & Prayers by Matthew McConaughey (Publishers Weekly, USA Today, NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)
The Housemaid by Freida McFadden (Publishers Weekly, NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)
Books On Three Bestseller Lists:
The Academy by Elin Hilderbrand and Shelby Cunningham (Publishers Weekly, NYT, Indie Bestsellers)
Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love by Samin Nosrat (Publishers Weekly, USA Today, Indie Bestsellers)
All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation by Elizabeth Gilbert (USA Today, NYT, Indie Bestsellers)
The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins (Publishers Weekly, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)
The Gingerbread Bakery by Laurie Gilmore (Publishers Weekly, NYT, Indie Bestsellers)
The Last Letter by Rebecca Yarros (Publishers Weekly, USA Today, NYT)
Confronting Evil by Bill O’Reilly (Publishers Weekly, NYT, Amazon)
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