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wweek.com | Lidia Yuknavitch |Javier Zamora |Timothy Snyder |Karen Russell
This month, we took a look at the top sellers from Powell’s Books, Literary Arts, Broadway Books and Annie Bloom’s Books to see what the city’s reading, and tallied up which books appear the most. Here are the city’s top reads for March. 1. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad2. Reading the Waves by Lidia Yuknavitch3. Solito: A Memoir by Javier Zamora4. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder5.
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publishersweekly.com | Alexis Madrigal |Abigail Leonard |John Cassidy |Lidia Yuknavitch
Jonah Bromwich. Authors Equity, $30 (304p) ISBN 979-8-89331-038-2New York Times reporter Bromwich debuts with a meticulous, fly-on-the-wall account of Donald Trump’s criminal trial for falsifying business records in order to conceal hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels. Bromwich takes readers through nail-biting stakeouts waiting for grand jury indictments, the grueling monotony of jury selection, and the salacious testimony of former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker.
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1 month ago | 
publishersweekly.com | Alexis Madrigal |Abigail Leonard |John Cassidy |Lidia Yuknavitch
Carly Anne York. Basic, $30 (288p) ISBN 978-1-5416-0521-3Pursuing knowledge for its own sake often paves the way for unexpected practical applications, according to this boisterous study.
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publishersweekly.com | Alexis Madrigal |Abigail Leonard |John Cassidy |Lidia Yuknavitch
A family torn apart struggles to heal itself in this immersive, painterly exposé. Journalist Demick (Eat the Buddha) recaps the story of Zeng Fangfang and Zeng Shuangjie, twin sisters born in China. In 2002, two-year-old Fangfang was kidnapped, sent to an orphanage, and adopted by an American couple who were told she’d been abandoned.
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1 month ago | 
publishersweekly.com | Alexis Madrigal |Abigail Leonard |John Cassidy |Lidia Yuknavitch
Katie Bo Lillis. Simon & Schuster, $29.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-6680-1701-2CNN reporter Lillis’s penetrating debut investigates the plight of racehorses through the controversies surrounding trainer Bob Baffert. She recounts how the 2021 death of Medina Spirit several months after winning the Kentucky Derby renewed questions about Baffert’s treatment of his stable.
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1 month ago | 
publishersweekly.com | Alexis Madrigal |Abigail Leonard |John Cassidy |Lidia Yuknavitch
J.M. Coetzee and Mariana Dimópulos. Liveright, $26.99 (144p) ISBN 978-1-324-09645-0The cerebral, far-reaching latest from Nobel winner Coetzee (The Pole) takes the form of an “amicable but intense” correspondence with Dimópulos (Imminence), a regular translator of his work into Spanish. The two interlocutors draw on their respective backgrounds (both are novelists and translators; Coetzee is also a linguist) to explore language and translation as a political and cultural force.
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1 month ago | 
publishersweekly.com | Alexis Madrigal |Abigail Leonard |John Cassidy |Lidia Yuknavitch
Eleanor Baker. Bodleian Library, $25 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-1-85124-630-4Excommunication, hanging, and being cooked in a frying pan are just some of the punishments to dissuade potential book thieves collected in Oxford medievalist Baker’s phenomenal debut anthology. For centuries, a “bookish malediction” inscribed into the front cover of a book could serve as a threat—to pilferers and borrowers alike—to return the book to its owner or suffer the consequences.
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1 month ago | 
publishersweekly.com | Alexis Madrigal |Abigail Leonard |John Cassidy |Lidia Yuknavitch
Brian Eno and Bette Adriaanse. Faber & Faber, $19.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-571-39551-4Eno (A Year with Swollen Appendices) gets to the heart of art’s purpose in this playful and concise illustrated guide. Drawing on his career as a songwriter, composer, and producer, he explores art’s key functions—engendering emotions; sparking empathy; and expanding worldviews.
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1 month ago | 
publishersweekly.com | Alexis Madrigal |Abigail Leonard |John Cassidy |Lidia Yuknavitch
John Cassidy. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $35 (624p) ISBN 978-0-374-60108-9In this sweeping account, Pulitzer finalist Cassidy (How Markets Fail) profiles figures who have opposed capitalism over the past two centuries. Since “the rise of factory production,” Cassidy notes, “critics from the right as well as the left” have made moral arguments against capitalism’s “dehumanizing effect” and its “upending of...
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1 month ago | 
publishersweekly.com | Alexis Madrigal |Abigail Leonard |John Cassidy |Lidia Yuknavitch
NPR host Madrigal (Powering the Dream) offers a sprawling history of Oakland, Calif., that situates the bustling port city at the heart of a new, technology-dominated world economic order. Oakland and its port are integral, he writes, to the “pacific circuit” of global capitalism with its “trade routes and trade deals, human migrations and technical exchanges...
