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There’s only one book that made it into the top ten of all five bestseller lists this week, and it’s the latest from the king of horror: Never Flinch by Stephen King. We also have a couple of new titles this week, both from authors you’ll likely recognize: Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid and The First Gentleman by James Patterson and Bill Clinton.
This list continues to lack of diversity on many levels, including being disproportionately by white authors. Some Indie Bestsellers you should know about are The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong, The Book of Alchemy by Suleika Jaouad, and One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad.
To get these numbers, we look at the New York Times, both Combined Print & E-Book Fiction and Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction lists; Amazon Charts, both Fiction and Nonfiction; Publishers Weekly; and Indie Bestsellers, Fiction and Nonfiction, both Paperback and Hardcover. New additions to the list this week are bolded.
Books On All Five Bestseller Lists:
Never Flinch by Stephen King
Books On Four Bestseller Lists:
Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Publishers Weekly, USA Today, NYT, Indie Bestsellers)
Problematic Summer Romance by Ali Hazelwood (Publishers Weekly, NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)
The Tenant by Freida McFadden (Publishers Weekly, NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)
Books On Three Bestseller Lists:
The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins (Publishers Weekly, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)
One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune (Publishers Weekly, NYT, Indie Bestsellers)
Original Sin by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson (NYT, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)
The First Gentleman by James Patterson and Bill Clinton (Publishers Weekly, USA Today, NYT)
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This week, we’re highlighting a post that asks: Are reading parties the next big thing? People—especially readers—are clearly looking for community. Are reading parties the answer? Read on for an excerpt and become an All Access member to unlock the full post.
Reading communities are everywhere online. From Storygraph to Fable to BookTube to BookTok, the growth of online reading buddies feels exponential. The problem with social media as it exists online, however, is that it’s a stand-in for the true connections we all seek over the things we love. As much as reading roundups and reading tracking can be fun, meeting up with in-person book lovers is a great book lover community event. With that in mind, reading parties could be the next big thing.
A reading party is distinct from a book club because everyone shows up to read instead of having read something to discuss. At a reading party, you can make time to discuss what you are reading, but it doesn’t all need to be the same book. It’s more of a reading vibe check than a book discussion.
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