Bestseller Book Roundup
Love Hypothesis Returns to Top Five Following Recent Movie Adaptation Release
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Recent book coverage highlights a varied mix of political humor, American history, fiction and nonfiction bestsellers. Newsmax’s featured titles include a collection of Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy’s quips and a study of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence. On StoryGraph, Ali Hazelwood’s The Love Hypothesis returned to the top five after its movie adaptation, while readers also showed interest in new fiction and thrillers. Literary reviews spotlighted Laleh Khadivi’s novel about a daughter uncovering her mother’s militant past and Sebastian Barry’s Civil War story of a formerly enslaved man navigating life after emancipation. Canadian independent-bookstore sales included End Times Fascism by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor, Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel, and Redwood by Ben Macintyre.
Key Points
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The StoryGraph article says The Love Hypothesis movie was released September 23; it also notes that the film’s Olive is identified as demisexual, which the writer describes as a first for a character in a major motion picture.
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The StoryGraph list also features a thriller about 81-year-old Elsie Mabel Fitzpatrick, who becomes a murder suspect after a neighbor dies. At 14, she was known as Mad Mabel, Australia’s youngest convicted murderer; the article reports 16,000 users read the book that week and gave it a 4.4 average rating.
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The literary review also highlights Hernan Diaz’s novel set in a dystopian future New York where democracy has ended and corporations control what remains of public utilities.
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Newsmax’s bestseller roundup additionally features a call for early cancer testing inspired by the author’s personal experience, a crime novelist reporting on a true crime committed against her, and the latest installment in a long-running series about America’s top spy.
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