Bound for Glory
PW named Tracy Deonn a Flying Start author for her 2020 debut, the YA fantasy Legendborn, which also won the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Author Award. This week, the third book in the series, Oathbound, lands at #2 on our children’s fiction list.
In Clubland
The March Reese’s Book Club pick, Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall, lands at #3 on our hardcover fiction list. “English writer Hall serves up twist after twist in her canny U.S. debut, a story of grief, love, and murder set in the Dorset countryside,” according to our review. “This sharp morality tale will stay with readers.” At least two more books from Hall are on deck: August brings Days You Were Mine, followed by September’s Pictures of Him.
Cooking the Books
A trio of recipe collections land on our hardcover nonfiction list. At #2, Super-Italian is the latest from Giada De Laurentiis; the 100-plus recipes emphasize ingredients she calls her superfoods—olives and olive oil, small fish including sardines and anchovies, citrus, and more. One notch below, There’s Always Room at the Table marks the debut of Instagram-famous, fourth-generation Iowa farmer Kaleb Wyse. And at #14, The Simplified Cookbook extends Emily Ley’s Simplified brand of organizational tools.
Waking Life
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie returns to fiction after more than a decade with Dream Count, #12 on our hardcover fiction list. It’s a “superb tale of the fleeting joys and abiding disappointments of four African women on both sides of the Atlantic,” according to our starred review, which deemed the book “well worth the wait.” Adichie’s previous novel, 2013’s Americanah, has sold 805K print copies, and she’s also known for nonfiction, including 2015’s We Should All Be Feminists, which has sold 470K print copies. Her numerous accolades include the 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction for Half of a Yellow Sun and a 2008 MacArthur fellowship.
