Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Aug. 8, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana BookScan © 2026 Circana.

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1. "The Calamity ...Read more

Writers write, and if they are good or lucky enough, what they write gets published, increasingly online but still, for many, the old-fashioned way: ink on paper in hardcover books.

I reconnected with two writers and their new books in a recent edition of the New York Times Book Review, the last remaining dedicated, stand-alone print book ...Read more

There’s no mystery here: We all love a good detective novel.

The genre, which arguably began with Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” has since launched a worldwide crime wave. And while there are many great mysteries written in English, you’re missing out if you don’t occasionally pick up a book in translation for a ...Read more

Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Aug. 1, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana BookScan © 2026 Circana.

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Scott Broker is a queer writer, bookseller and teacher based in Los Angeles. His debut novel, “The Disappointment,” is in bookstores now.

He responded to the Book Pages Q&A via email

Q. Please tell readers about your new book.

“The Disappointment” follows a grieving couple who go to the Oregon coast in hopes of finding some respite...Read more

“Crash into Me” is the novel that actress and author Robinne Lee says she always wanted to write.

That’s not to say she isn’t proud of the mega success of her super sexy debut novel, “The Idea of You,” the story of a 40-year-old mom who takes her daughter to Coachella and ends up in a romance with a much-younger singer from a boy ...Read more

“House of the Dragon” creator George R.R. Martin has been struggling with depression.

The fantasy writer whose “A Song of Fire and Ice” series inspired HBO’s “Game of Thrones” saga told fans that while his blog has been updated recently, he personally hasn’t posted anything since February.

“This year has been… stressful, to...Read more

Few things boast a sleeker summer look than a slim, 200-page novel.

And while not all of the offerings here are that brief, several are, and you have to imagine this trend might have to do with a desire to tell a compelling story with an economy of words. Or it might be because it’s a little easier to hold a short book aloft with one hand as ...Read more

Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, July 25, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana BookScan © 2026 Circana.

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Victoria Chang says her new collection began with the loss of a neighborhood tree, but eventually grew to encompass a variety of influences, poems and art.

Chang, the acclaimed author of books that include “OBIT,” “With My Back to the World” and “Dear Memory,” has just published this collection of poems, “Tree of Knowledge,” ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA -- Classics scholar Emily Wilson was in Greece’s Costa Navarino last year when she heard the news that would change her life: Filmmaker Christopher Nolan was planning to release a star-studded adaptation of "The Odyssey," the epic poem that Wilson had spent years painstakingly translating from Homeric Greek into English.

Nolan’...Read more

For “Cool Machine,” the 1980s-set final novel in his Harlem crime trilogy, Colson Whitehead drew inspiration from another classic American story.

That’s right, “Die Hard.”

While there aren’t any obvious parallels between the movie and his novel’s three sections, Whitehead says the idea of the 1988 blockbuster action film, which ...Read more

Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, July 18, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana BookScan © 2026 Circana.

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ANAHEIM, Calif. — The first challenge writer Craig Fehrman faced as he considered writing a book on the Lewis and Clark Expedition was whether there was enough fresh material to warrant the project.

After poring over the journals of Merriweather Lewis and William Clark, a million words in all, Fehrman decided there was.

“After I read the ...Read more

Krys Malcolm Belc wrote a new book so he could stop worrying about his last one.

The St. Paul, Minnesota, man’s new memoir, “What I Made for Dinner,” comes five years after his first, “The Natural Mother of the Child.”

“When my book came out, I asked some writers, ‘What is the best way to deal with the anxiety of having a book ...Read more