Sales Snapshot
The third installment in Dav Pilkey’s Cat Kid Comic Club series, On Purpose, is the bestselling book in the country for the second week in a row and head of the class in several regions. Dream Town by David Baldacci, #2 in the country, is set in 1950s California and tops in the Southeast. The mountain region embraced Own Your Past Change Your Future by John Delony. Subtitled A Not-So-Complicated Approach to Relationships, Mental Health, and Wellness and featuring a foreword by Dave Ramsey, it’s #3 in the country.
Computer Generated
Janelle Monáe adds another feather—author—to her signature headwear with The Memory Librarian, #12 on our hardcover fiction list. “In this moving, triumphant collection, singer Monáe returns to the dystopian world of her Dirty Computer concept album and short film,” our starred review said. “Readers won’t need to be familiar with the album to marvel at the big ideas, riveting action, and hopeful message here.” Monáe collaborated with a different writer on each of the five pieces, including Danny Lore and Sheree Renée Thomas, who joined her onstage for the April 18 launch at Brooklyn Academy of Music. The book’s project manager, Kyle Dargan, moderated the conversation.
NEW & NOTABLE
KINGDOM OF BONES
James Rollins
#5 Hardcover Fiction
“Bestseller Rollins’s exhilarating 16th Sigma Force novel,” our starred review said, takes a team “to a UN refugee camp in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which has been overwhelmed by a simultaneous invasion of unusually violent insects and animals and an outbreak of a mysterious and devastating sickness.”
PLAYING WITH MYSELF
Randy Rainbow
#13 Hardcover Nonfiction
Though comedian Rainbow’s “campy on-screen comedy doesn’t always translate well to the page,” our review said of his debut, “his gift for striking a well-honed phrase (‘I was in the prime of my twinkdom and was not about to let these gorgeous gams of mine go to waste’) will have readers cackling. Fans are sure to be heartened and tickled by this entertaining account.”
