Last Week’s Most Popular Reviews

And the five most-read reviews on publishersweekly.com last week were...

#1

Manhattan Beach

#2

Losing an Enemy: Obama, Iran, and the Triumph of Diplomacy

#3

Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World

#4

Patient Zero

#5

October: The Story of the Russian Revolution

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Religion BookLine

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Global Rights Report

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BookLife Report

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Week Ahead

PW senior writer Andrew Albanese on the revamped BookExpo and what the show’s changes say about the direction of the industry at large.

More to Come

The More to Come crew discuss the nominees for this year’s Eisner awards, reactions to the new Guardians of the Galaxy movie, new young readers imprints at DC and Papercutz, and more.

PW Radio

Richard Rothstein discusses his new book, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. And PW editorial director Jim Milliot explains the controversy over Amazon’s buy buttons.

Blogs

ShelfTalker

Our bookseller bloggers are taking up Gene Luen Yang’s Reading Without Walls Challenge and writing about it.