{"id":66638,"date":"2025-10-09T00:13:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T00:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/66638\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T00:13:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T00:13:12","slug":"the-weeks-bestselling-books-oct-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/66638\/","title":{"rendered":"The week\u2019s bestselling books, Oct. 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Hardcover fiction<\/p>\n<p>1. The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman (Pamela Dorman Books: $30) Members of the Thursday Murder Club plunge back into action after a wedding guest disappears. <\/p>\n<p>2. What We Can Know by Ian McEwan (Knopf: $30) A genre-bending love story about people and the words they leave behind. <\/p>\n<p>3. Katabasis by R. F. Kuang (Harper Voyager: $32) Two rival graduate students journey to hell to save their professor\u2019s soul. <\/p>\n<p>4. The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown (Doubleday: $38) Symbologist Robert Langdon takes on a mystery involving human consciousness and ancient mythology.  <\/p>\n<p>5. Alchemised by SenLinYu (Del Rey: $35) A woman with missing memories fights to survive a war-torn world of necromancy and alchemy. <\/p>\n<p>6. Heart the Lover by Lily King (Grove Press: $28) A woman reflects on a youthful love triangle and its consequences.  <\/p>\n<p>7. The Correspondent by Virginia Evans (Crown: $28) A lifelong letter writer reckons with a painful period in her past. <\/p>\n<p>8. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai (Hogarth: $32) The fates of two young people intersect and diverge across continents and years. <\/p>\n<p>9. We Love You, Bunny by Mona Awad (S&amp;S\/Marysue Rucci Books: $30) The follow-up to the campus satire \u201cBunny\u201d goes on a journey into the heart of dark academia.  <\/p>\n<p>10. Culpability by Bruce Holsinger (Spiegel &amp; Grau: $30) A family drama about moral responsibility in the age of artificial intelligence. <\/p>\n<p class=\"cms-textAlign-center\">\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Hardcover nonfiction<\/p>\n<p>1. 107 Days by Kamala Harris (Simon &amp; Schuster: $30) The former vice president tells her story of one of the wildest and most consequential presidential campaigns in American history.  <\/p>\n<p>2. Good Things by Samin Nosrat (Random House: $45) The celebrated chef shares 125 meticulously tested recipes.  <\/p>\n<p>3. We the People by Jill Lepore (Liveright: $40) The historian offers a wholly new history of the Constitution. <\/p>\n<p>4. The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins (Hay House: $30) How to stop wasting energy on things you can\u2019t control. <\/p>\n<p>5. Poems &amp; Prayers by Matthew McConaughey (Crown: $29) The Oscar-winning actor shares his writings and reflections. <\/p>\n<p>6. Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy (Scribner: $30) The acclaimed novelist\u2019s first memoir takes on the complex relationship with her mother. <\/p>\n<p>7. I\u2019m Just a Little Guy by Charlie James, Paige Tompkins (illustrator) (Quirk Books: $15) The comedian offers a softer, sillier, sunnier way to walk through life.  <\/p>\n<p>8. All the Way to the River by Elizabeth Gilbert (Riverhead Books: $35) The bestselling author\u2019s memoir about an intense and ultimately tragic love. <\/p>\n<p>9. 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>10. Truly by Lionel Richie (HarperOne: $36) The music legend tells his story.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"cms-textAlign-center\">\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Paperback fiction<\/p>\n<p>1. I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman (Transit Books: $17)<\/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. The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali (Gallery Books: $19)<\/p>\n<p>5. Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout (Random House Trade Paperbacks: $18)<\/p>\n<p>6. The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon (Vintage: $18)<\/p>\n<p>7. Intermezzo by Sally Rooney (Picador: $19)<\/p>\n<p>8. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper Perennial: $22)<\/p>\n<p>9. Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt (Ecco: $20)<\/p>\n<p>10. All Fours by Miranda July (Riverhead Books: $19)<\/p>\n<p class=\"cms-textAlign-center\">\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Paperback nonfiction<\/p>\n<p>1. On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder (Crown: $12)<\/p>\n<p>2. The Art Thief by Michael Finkel (Vintage: $18)<\/p>\n<p>3. Revenge of the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay Books: $22)<\/p>\n<p>4. The Body Keeps the Score by Dr. Bessel van der Kolk (Penguin: $19)<\/p>\n<p>5. The Wide Wide Sea by Hampton Sides (Vintage: $19)<\/p>\n<p>6. The Artist\u2019s Way by Julia Cameron (TarcherPerigee: $24)<\/p>\n<p>7. The White Album by Joan Didion (Farrar, Straus &amp; Giroux: $18)<\/p>\n<p>8. All About Love by bell hooks (Morrow: $17)<\/p>\n<p>9. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed Editions: $22)<\/p>\n<p>10. All the Beauty in the World by Patrick Bringley (Simon &amp; Schuster: $19)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hardcover fiction 1. 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