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This Week’s Bestsellers: November 17, 2025
Country Music Hall of Fame inductee Kenny Chesney has the #1 book in the country with Heart Life Music. Plus Murder at Holly House by Denzil Meyrick gets a caffeinated boost from B&N, and dark romance author Alta Hensley leans into the sinister undertones of “Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town.”
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Shein Expands into Bookselling with Alibris Partnership
Ahead of the holiday shopping season, used books retailer Alibris will offer more than 100,000 titles across a variety of genres, as well as “affordable textbooks,” through Shein’s U.S. marketplace.
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Book Club Picks for November 2025
Reese spotlights Charlotte McConaghy’s latest novel, GMA selects Catherine Newman’s follow-up to Sandwich, and more.
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This Week’s Bestsellers: November 10, 2025
Louise Penny’s 20th Chief Insp. Gamache mystery, The Black Wolf, lands at #2 on our hardcover fiction list. Plus the manga series The Summer Hikaru Died releases its first new installment since the anime adaptation debuted, and cookbooks by one veteran and one debut author hit our list.
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Authors Guild Webinar Talks Self-Publishing, Conglomeration
Author Mike Castleman unpacked with Guild CEO Mary Rasenberger why the “industrial publishing” model is unsustainable in an oversaturated digital marketplace where authors struggle to “bring any attention to their little books.”
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Another ‘Best Bookstore’ Will Open, Part of a Downtown San Francisco Revival
Paul Bradley Carr and Sarah Lacy, who opened the Best Bookstore in Palm Springs in 2022, plan to open a second store in San Francisco’s Union Square later this month, with help from an urban initiative called Vacant to Vibrant.
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This Week’s Bestsellers: November 3, 2025
A pair of legal thrillers take the #1 and #2 spots on our hardcover fiction list. Plus Joe Hill returns with King Sorrow, his first novel in nine years, and Philip Pullman wraps up his Book of Dust trilogy.
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Powell’s Books Makes Layoffs Across Departments
The Portland, Ore.–based indie bookstore chain laid off 13 management and business services employees in October, adding to some 18 layoffs earlier this year.
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San Francisco’s Literary Community Gets a New Hub
The Backstory Above, a coworking and community space for writers, agents, and editors founded by Susannah Emerson and Paige Patterson Duff, will open on the mezzanine level of Green Apple Books on the Park on November 1.
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Books-A-Million Bounces Back
With new financial backing from its parent company, the country’s second largest bookselling chain has been revitalizing its stores and posting record sales in the process.
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