ALL in the Family

Word of mouth has been fueling interest in My Husband’s Wife by Alice Feeney, now in its seventh week on our hardcover fiction list with its best one-week performance since its January debut. Shortly before the book pubbed, Carnival Films, the production company behind hits including All Her Fault and Downton Abbey, optioned it for TV. Several other Feeney titles have already been optioned; the six-episode His & Hers, starring Tessa Thompson and Jon Bernthal, is streaming on Netflix.

Passing Strange

Japanese horror author-artist Uketsu returns with Strange Buildings, #8 on our trade paperback list. It follows 2025’s Strange Pictures
and Strange Houses, with first-week print unit sales more than triple those of its predecessors combined. Jim Rion translated the three books.

In Clubland

The Reese’s Book Club selection for March, Lady Tremaine, retells “Cinderella” from the stepmother’s perspective. Debut author Rachel Hochhauser “grounds her tale with a convincing depiction of the medieval setting and offers a stirring exploration of maternal instinct and female strength,” per our starred review. In a prepub interview with PW, Hochhauser explained the book’s focus on her main character’s bleak financial situation. “So much of the traditional happily ever after has hinged on marriage. But historically, that’s because—for women—matrimony meant security. And security, more often than not, meant money. It felt impossible to write about female autonomy in a preindustrial setting without reckoning with the economic realities that shaped women’s choices.”

Playing the Numbers

Culinary creator and recipe developer Maxine Sharf lands at #4 on our hardcover nonfiction list with her first cookbook, Maxi’s Kitchen. She’s attracted 3.1 million Instagram followers with dishes that take inspiration from her Korean, Chinese, Russian, Romanian, and Polish backgrounds, filtered through her California upbringing. Elsewhere, BookTokker and debut YA author Sasha E. Sloan takes the #11 spot on our children’s fiction list with The Ruins Beneath Us. Sloan, who has 1.2 million TikTok followers, “deftly weaves themes of self-discovery, oppression, loyalty, and consent into a luminous fantasy duology opener,” according to our starred review. “Queer representation adds dimension to nuanced emotional stakes across an assured tale that promises romance and adventure at every turn.”