{"id":2409,"date":"2025-07-17T09:25:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T09:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/2409\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T09:25:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T09:25:14","slug":"the-weeks-bestselling-books-july-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/2409\/","title":{"rendered":"The week\u2019s bestselling books, July 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Hardcover fiction<\/p>\n<p>1. Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Ballantine Books: $30) A story of friendship, love and adversity during the 1980s Space Shuttle program.<\/p>\n<p>2. Vera, or Faith by Gary Shteyngart (Random House: $28) A tale of a family struggling to stay together in a country rapidly coming apart. <\/p>\n<p>3. The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong (Penguin Press: $30) An unlikely pair develops a life-altering bond. 9<\/p>\n<p>4. My Friends by Fredrik Backman (Atria Books: $30) The bond between a group of teens 25 years earlier has a powerful effect on a budding artist. <\/p>\n<p>5. James by Percival Everett (Doubleday: $28) An action-packed reimagining of \u201cThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>6. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab (Tor Books: $30) A vampiric tale follows three women across the centuries. <\/p>\n<p>7. Culpability by Bruce Holsinger (Spiegel &amp; Grau: $30) A suspenseful family drama about moral responsibility in the age of artificial intelligence. <\/p>\n<p>8. My Name Is Emilia del Valle by Isabel Allende (Ballantine Books: $30) A young writer in the late 1800s travels to South America to uncover the truth about her father. <\/p>\n<p>9. The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy by Brigitte Knightley (Ace: $30) A romantasy following an assassin and a healer forced to work together to cure a fatal disease. <\/p>\n<p>10. The Wedding People by Alison Espach (Henry Holt &amp; Co.: $29) An unexpected wedding guest gets surprise help on her journey to starting anew. <\/p>\n<p class=\"cms-textAlign-center\">\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Hardcover nonfiction<\/p>\n<p>1. The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins (Hay House: $30) How to stop wasting energy on things you can\u2019t control. <\/p>\n<p>2. Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson (Avid Reader Press\/Simon &amp; Schuster: $30) A study of the barriers to progress in the U.S. <\/p>\n<p>3. The Creative Act by Rick Rubin (Penguin: $32) The music producer on how to be a creative person. 122<\/p>\n<p>4. A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhirst (Riverhead Books: $28) The true story of a young couple shipwrecked at sea: a partnership stretched to its limits. <\/p>\n<p>5. Lessons From Cats for Surviving Fascism by Stewart Reynolds (Grand Central Publishing: $13) A guide to channeling feline wisdom in the face of authoritarian nonsense. <\/p>\n<p>6. 2024 by Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager, Isaac Arnsdorf (Penguin Press: $32) The inside story of a tumultuous and consequential presidential campaign. <\/p>\n<p>7. Super Agers by Eric Topol (Simon &amp; Schuster: $33) A detailed guide to a revolution transforming human longevity. <\/p>\n<p>8. The Book of Alchemy by Suleika Jaouad (Random House: $30) A guide to the art of journaling and a meditation on the central questions of life. <\/p>\n<p>9. We Can Do Hard Things by Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach, Amanda Doyle (The Dial Press: $34) The guidebook for being alive. <\/p>\n<p>10. The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer and John Burgoyne (illustrator) (Scribner: $20) On gratitude, reciprocity and community, and the lessons to take from the natural world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cms-textAlign-center\">\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Paperback fiction<\/p>\n<p>1. Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt (Ecco: $20)<\/p>\n<p>2. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (Ballantine: $20)<\/p>\n<p>3. Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar (Vintage: $18)<\/p>\n<p>4. All Fours by Miranda July (Riverhead Books: $19)<\/p>\n<p>5. I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman (Transit Books: $17)<\/p>\n<p>6. The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley (Avid Reader Press\/Simon &amp; Schuster: $19)<\/p>\n<p>7. Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner (Scribner: $20)<\/p>\n<p>8. One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune (Berkley: $19)<\/p>\n<p>9. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper Perennial: $22)<\/p>\n<p>10. Problematic Summer Romance by Ali Hazelwood (Berkley, $20)<\/p>\n<p class=\"cms-textAlign-center\">\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Paperback nonfiction<\/p>\n<p>1. The Friday Afternoon Club by Griffin Dunne (Penguin: $21)<\/p>\n<p>2. The Wager by David Grann (Vintage: $21)<\/p>\n<p>3. The Wide Wide Sea by Hampton Sides (Vintage: $19)<\/p>\n<p>4. On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder (Crown: $12)<\/p>\n<p>5. The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz (Amber-Allen: $13)<\/p>\n<p>6. Sociopath by Patric Gagne, Ph.D. (Simon &amp; Schuster: $20)<\/p>\n<p>7. All About Love by bell hooks (Morrow: $17)<\/p>\n<p>8. The Art Thief by Michael Finkel (Vintage: $18)<\/p>\n<p>9. The Artist\u2019s Way by Julia Cameron (TarcherPerigee: $20)<\/p>\n<p>10. The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk, M.D. (Penguin: $19)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hardcover fiction 1. 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