Sales Snapshot
Heather Gay, one of the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, makes her debut with the memoir Bad Mormon. “Gay’s narrative is by turns cheeky and reflective,” per our review, “and even when discussing her struggles, she writes with self-deprecating humor.” It’s #12 on our hardcover nonfiction list and #1 in the Mountain region, which includes Utah. Elsewhere, Little Blue Truck’s Valentine by Alice Schertle and Jill McElmurry chugs along in the Northeast, and a pair of Colleen Hoover titles round out the regional favorites.
In Clubland
Someone Else’s Shoes by Jojo Moyes, the Good Housekeeping Book Club pick for February, lands at #3 on our hardcover fiction list. “Moyes’s charming spin on Trading Places follows two 40-something women who end up with each other’s shoes,” per our review. “The plot leans a bit too much on convenience, but Moyes is never short on her trademark clever observations.”
Reese’s Book Club tapped Sadeqa Johnson’s The House of Eve, #14 on our hardcover fiction list. “Johnson’s suspenseful and thought-provoking latest follows two young Black women as they separately navigate mid-20th-century America,” according to our review “Johnson methodically develops the women’s worlds and draws subtle hints at the similarities in their experiences, and after their pregnancies, they’re brought together in a bittersweet denouement.”
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Mae Bunseng Taing, with James Teng
#4 Hardcover Nonfiction
“This inspiring, harrowing memoir looks back on one man’s arduous, and daring, escape from Cambodia and its genocidal Khmer Rouge regime of the 1970s,” according to BookLife’s review; this was a BookLife Editor’s Pick.
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Stephen Graham Jones
#18 Hardcover Fiction
“Jade Daniels and her encyclopedic knowledge of slasher films return for another blood-soaked romp,” per PW’s starred review. Jones “gives his characters distinctive personalities that distinguish them from the underdeveloped body fodder common to most slasher scenarios.”
