These Days
Kamala Harris’s memoir of what she calls “the shortest campaign in modern presidential history” is the #1 book in the country. In 107 Days, according to our review, she’s “especially forthcoming about her ‘complicated’ relationship with Biden and his inner circle,” but mostly “sidesteps consideration of her own missteps, chalking her loss up to the lack of time to connect with voters. This rehash is rich in intraparty sniping, but short on campaign postmortem.”
Tainted Love
Debuting at #1 on our hardcover fiction list, Alchemised by SenLinYu is the third book with origins in Dramione (Draco Malfoy/Hermione Granger) fanfic to land on our lists in just over two months and by far the most successful out of the gate.
Vacation, All I Ever Wanted
Brynne Weaver is back with Tourist Season, #3 on our hardcover fiction list. “Just as gleefully ghoulish as fans will expect, this series-launching black comedy from bestseller Weaver pairs two serial killers in a quirky coastal town,” per our review. “The pair meet cute before either realizes who the other is, and their mutual attraction never fades even as they enter a deliciously dangerous game of cat and mouse.” As in her popular Ruinous Love trilogy, “there’s plenty of humor, gore, and spice to hold readers’ interest. Weaver’s good at what she does.”
It's a New Dawn
In Awake, #4 on our hardcover nonfiction list, Jen Hatmaker writes about the end of her 26-year marriage and what came after. She told PW that she hopes readers “will relate to the story of divorce and loss, that they’ll understand upheaval and recalibrate for a strong second half.” Prior to her marriage’s demise, Hatmaker, once a nationally popular evangelical writer and speaker, had been dropped by “the majority of my traditional evangelical following in 2016 when I reversed my theology on LGBTQIA2S+,” she said. “To my surprise, a beautiful new community emerged. I had never lived outside my [evangelical church] bubble, but I now have a community that is so vibrant, so beautiful.”
