Last Week's Top Reviews

he most-read reviews on publishersweekly.com last week were...

Super Late Bloomer: My Early Days in Transition

Food: What the Heck Should I Eat? The No-nonsense Guide to Achieving Optimal Weight and Lifelong Health

Before We Were Yours

Tomb of the Unknown Racist

Unbroken

Blogs

ShelfTalker

Why “bad” books can be good for readers.

From the Newsletters

Tip Sheet

Chuma Nwokolo, author of The Extinction of Menai, picks five essential mindbending novels.

Children’s Bookshelf

John Oliver challenges Vice President Mike Pence to a picture book showdown.

BookLife Report

A monthly look at the best-reviewed self-published titles from BookLife authors.

Podcasts

Week Ahead

PW senior writer Andrew Albanese reports from snowy Philadelphia on the Public Library Association Conference, where keynote speaker Sally Yates reminded librarians that the truth still matters.

More to Come

Last week’s show covers the closing of L.A.’s Meltdown Comics and the relocation of N.Y.C.’s JHU Comics, the Denver Comic Con’s new Excellence in Graphic Literature Awards, Slate’s Cartoonist Studio Prizes, and PW’s profile of Ed Piskor (X-Men: Grand Design).

PW Radio

Lauren Hilgers discusses her new book, Patriot Number One: American Dreams in Chinatown. And PW senior correspondent Claire Kirch explores changes at the AWP.