In Clubland

Pulitzer finalist and Parnassus Books owner Ann Patchett has the #2 book in the country with Tom Lake. “Patchett unspools a masterly family drama set in the early months of Covid-19,” according to our starred review of the author’s first novel in four years. It’s the Reese’s Book Club pick and the B&N Book Club pick for August; her previous novel, 2019’s The Dutch House, was a Read with Jenna selection.

Be Our Guest

Unreasonable Hospitality by Will Guidara, former co-owner of three-Michelin-starred restaurant Eleven Madison Park, has sold 112K print copies since its October 2022 publication. The business title is #14 on our hardcover nonfiction list this week, its highest chart position to date. Is the book’s cameo appearance in season 2 of The Bear, which dropped June 22, the likely cause of its popularity boost? Yes, chef.

Right on Time

Rachel Griffin’s Bring Me Your Midnight, #13 on our children’s fiction list, is part of a burgeoning trend in adult and YA fiction: romantasy, a mix of romance and fantasy. Griffin was one of six YA authors who recently spoke with PW about the hybrid category. “I have always loved stories that tie magic to emotions, and the way the two interact with each other,” Griffin said. “I jumped on board the paranormal romance train at a young age and never looked back, so the rising popularity of romantic fantasy has been an utter delight for me, both as a reader and a writer.”

NEW & NOTABLE

LIKE A RIVER
Granger Smith
#2 Hardcover Nonfiction
“Country music artist Smith debuts with a sensitive and moving recollection of his path through grief recovery after his three-year-old son, River, accidentally drowned in 2019,” according to our review. “In stark, intimate prose, the author candidly renders the realities of suffering while articulating a moving message of renewal.”

CROSSED
Emily McIntire
#6 Trade Paperback
The latest in McIntire’s Never After series of fractured fairy tale contemporary romances riffs on The Hunchback of Notre Dame; books one to four reimagined Peter Pan, The Lion King, The Wizard of Oz, and Aladdin.