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Best-sellers from Watermark Books and Eighth Day Books (June 29)
Best-sellers
Fiction
A regular-guy gumshoe
June 27 at 4:56 p.m.“The Silkworm: A Cormoran Strike Novel” by Robert Galbraith (Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Co., 455 pages, $28)
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Review: History of South Pass tells of America’s expansion
“South Pass: Gateway to a Continent” by Will Bagley (University of Oklahoma Press, 325 pages, $29.95).
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Plato deserves better than a stint at the Googleplex
“Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won’t Go Away” by Rebecca Goldstein (Pantheon Books, 435 pages, $29.95)
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‘Long Shadow’ documents the profound impact of World War I
“The Long Shadow: The Legacies of the Great War in the Twentieth Century” by David Reynolds (W.W. Norton, 544 pages, $32.50)
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Lydia Davis’ new collection of brief fiction is designed to make us think
“Can’t and Won’t: Stories” by Lydia Davis (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 289 pages, $26)
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‘Updike’ shows how the writer’s life and work intersect
“Updike” by Adam Begley (Harper, 558 pages, $29.99)
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Books for kids during the dog-eared days of summer
Ahhh, summertime: no school, no worries, no problem curling up with a book and a lemonade.
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Debut spy-thriller turns out to be a big, exhilarating read
“I Am Pilgrim” by Terry Hayes (Emily Bestler Books/Atria, 612 pages, $26.99)
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Jeannette Walls uses real-life inspiration for novel ‘The Silver Star’
Like a baby who’s both baffled and enchanted by games of peek-a-boo – Did that lady just disappear? No wait, she’s back! – Jeannette Walls has a complicated relationship with truth.
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‘Mother of God’ recounts the fate of the under-siege Amazon rainforest
“Mother of God: An Extraordinary Journey Into the Uncharted Tributaries of the Western Amazon” by Paul Rosolie (Harper Collins, 306 pages, $25.99)
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‘Voyage’ is oddly compelling story about odd man
“The Voyage” by Murray Bail (MacLehose Press, 166 pages, $22.95)
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Joanna Rakoff writes of her year at New York literary agency, J.D. Salinger
“My Salinger Year” by Joanna Rakoff (Alfred A. Knopf, 272 pages, $25.95)
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‘1913’ a witty portrait of the birth of modernism
“1913: The Year Before the Storm” by Florian Illies (Melville House, 268 pages, $25.95)
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Novel on Auschwitz shines light on atrocities – with a twist
“The Auschwitz Escape” by Joel Rosenberg (Tyndale House Publishers, 461 pages, $26.99)
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Antonya Nelson’s latest collection maintains her high quality of writing
“Funny Once: Stories” by Antonya Nelson (Bloomsbury, 304 pages, $26)
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