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Bestsellers
1. “A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor” by Hank Green
2. “White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism” by Robin Diangelo
3. “What Color is Night?” by Grant Snider
4. “Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You” by Jason Reynolds
5. “The Vanishing Half” by Brit Bennett
New and notable
“Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man” by Mary L. Trump (Simon & Schuster, $28) In this portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald’s only niece, shines a light on the dark history of their family to explain how her uncle became the man who may now threaten the world’s health, economic security, and social fabric.
“Utopia Avenue” by David Mitchell (Random House, $30) A new novel from the bestselling, prize-winning author of “Cloud Atlas” and “The Bone Clocks” about a British band emerging from London’s psychedelic scene in 1967. It explores fame’s Faustian pact and stardom’s wobbly ladder; the families we choose and the ones we don’t; voices in the head, and the truths and lies they whisper; and music, madness and idealism.
Eighth Day Books
Bestsellers
1. “The Sacred: In Life and Art” by Philip Sherrard
2. “The Ethics of Beauty” by Timothy Patitsas
3. “Stories of the Saints: Bold and Inspiring Tales of Adventure, Grace, and Courage” by Carey Wallace
4. “George Washington” by Ingri & Edgar D’Aulaire
5. “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration” by Isabel Wilkerson
New and notable
“Cross of Snow: A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow” by Nicholas Basbanes (Knopf, $37.50). Twelve years in the making, this new biography is a portrait of a bold artist, experimenter of poetic form and an innovative translator — the human being that he was, the times in which he lived, the people whose lives he touched, his monumental work and its place in his America and ours.
“Faith, Hope and Poetry: Theology and the Poetic Imagination” by Malcolm Guite (Routledge, $44.95). Explores the poetic imagination as a way of knowing; a way of seeing reality more clearly. Presenting a series of critical appreciations of English poetry from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day, Malcolm Guite applies the insights of poetry to contemporary issues and the contribution poetry can make to our religious knowing and the way we ‘do theology’.
National best-sellers
Fiction
1. “28 Summers” by Elin Hilderbrand
2. “The Vanishing Half” by Brit Bennett
3. “Camino Winds” by John Grisham
4. “A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor” by Hank Green
5. “Sex and Vanity” by Kevin Kwan
Nonfiction
1. “The Room Where It Happened” by John Bolton
2. “How to Be an Antiracist” by Ibram X. Kendi
3. “Me and White Supremacy“ by Layla Saad
4. “Untamed” by Glennon Doyle
5. “Magnolia Table, Vol. 2” by Joanna Gaines