Sales Snapshot
Wildfire, the second new adult romance in BookTok sensation Hannah Grace’s Maple Hills series, is the #1 book in the country and across several but not all geographic regions. In the Northeast, Going Infinite, Michael Lewis’s look at FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, came out on top (as our review predicted, the book was indeed “sure to be debated”). Design studio MinaLima’s interpretation of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was the West Coast’s favorite. And the mountain region, which includes Utah, embraced the self-published 52 Modern Manners for Today’s Teens, Vol. 2 by Brooke Romney, a Mormon lifestyle and parenting blogger.
In Clubland
Fantasy author Alix E. Harrow has written full-length works and novellas and won a 2019 Hugo Award for her short fiction. Starling House, her third novel and the October Reese’s Book Club pick, debuts at #9 on our hardcover fiction list. It’s a “tender and triumphant haunted house story,” according to our starred review. “Harrow’s prose cuts straight to the heart as she melds a story of family legacy and historical oppression with a stirring call to speak the truth.”
NEW & NOTABLE
THRONE OF THE FALLEN
Kerri Maniscalco
#5 Hardcover Fiction
“Maniscalco makes her adult fiction debut with a seductive standalone romantasy set in the world of her bestselling YA series Kingdom of the Wicked,” per our starred review. The author “crafts a deliciously dark supernatural world that serves as the perfect backdrop [for] angst and sexual tension.”
SEAFOOD SIMPLE
Eric Ripert
#15 Hardcover Nonfiction
The owner of Michelin three-star restaurant Le Bernadin stays mindful of beginners in this “exceptional guide,” our starred review noted. “Ripert teaches readers important prepping techniques, such as how to fillet a flatfish and how to shuck clams, as well as basic cooking techniques, including how to properly set up a broiler rack.”
