Aiding and Abetting

The #1 trade paperback, and #1 book in the country, is Accomplice to the Villain, Hannah Nicole Maehrer’s third Assistant and the Villain romantasy. “Maehrer delivers exactly what her legion of fans will be looking for: plenty of shocking twists and, of course, her signature humor,” according to our review. “This keeps the series going strong.”

Seven Times Lucky

In its second week on sale, Yasuhiko Nishizawa’s The Man Who Died Seven Times appears on our trade paperback list for the first time, at #14, with more than twice as many print copies sold as in its first week. “Murder and time travel collide in Nishizawa’s charming English-language debut,” per our review; Jesse Kirkwood translated the novel from the Japanese. “This lighthearted whodunit will please anyone who likes their murder mysteries with a dash of whimsy.”

Infernal Device

Journalist Garrett M. Graff follows his 2024 oral history of D-Day, When the Sea Came Alive, with The Devil Reached Toward the Sky, #8 on our hardcover nonfiction list and “a magesterial oral history of the atomic bomb,” according to our starred review. “The book opens by tracing enigmatic statements about the atom from the ancient Greeks to Isaac Newton before getting to the 20th century, at which point the mysteries of the atomic world begin to crash into the brutalities of the political one.” Graff’s eventual account of the dropping of the first bomb on Hiroshima “conveys both the monumental nature of the task and the incomprehensible
horror it wrought.”

Love Me Not

Psychotherapist Meg Josephson explores a little-known but common threat response in Are You Mad at Me?, which takes the #9 spot on our hardcover nonfiction list. Unlike fight, flight, or freeze, she writes, fawning, or “being helpful and agreeable to the threat so that you can feel safe,” has been “overlooked in our society because it’s so largely rewarded.” Overcoming the fawning response requires self-forgiveness and self-love, subject matter that our review notes has been covered “in countless other titles. Yet Josephson’s lucid prose and smart mix of clinical expertise, personal disclosure, and pertinent case studies makes for a uniquely actionable resource.”