{"id":142497,"date":"2025-08-13T13:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T13:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/142497\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T13:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T13:38:11","slug":"the-weeks-bestselling-books-aug-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/142497\/","title":{"rendered":"The week’s bestselling books, Aug. 17"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hardcover fiction<\/p>\n

1. Atmosphere<\/b> by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Ballantine Books: $30) A story of friendship, love and adversity during the 1980s Space Shuttle program.<\/p>\n

2. An Inside Job<\/b> by Daniel Silva (Harper: $32) An art restorer and legendary spy must solve the perfect crime.<\/p>\n

3. My Friends <\/b>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

4. The Emperor of Gladness<\/b> by Ocean Vuong (Penguin Press: $30) An unlikely pair develops a life-altering bond.<\/p>\n

5. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil<\/b> by V. E. Schwab (Tor Books: $30) A vampiric tale follows three women across the centuries.<\/p>\n

6. Automatic Noodle<\/b> by Annalee Newitz (Tordotcom: $25) A crew of deactivated robots opens a noodle shop and causes a stir.<\/p>\n

7. Culpability<\/b> by Bruce Holsinger (Spiegel & Grau: $30) A suspenseful family drama about moral responsibility in the age of artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n

8. Great Big Beautiful Life<\/b> by Emily Henry (Berkley: $29) Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of an heiress.<\/p>\n

9. Broken Country<\/b> by Clare Leslie Hall (Simon & Schuster: $29) A love triangle unearths dangerous secrets.<\/p>\n

10. The Magician of Tiger Castle<\/b> by Louis Sachar (Ace: $30) The “Holes” author’s debut adult novel centers on forbidden love, a crumbling kingdom and the unexpected magic around us.<\/p>\n

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Hardcover nonfiction<\/p>\n

1. A Marriage at Sea<\/b> by Sophie Elmhirst (Riverhead Books: $28) The true story of a young couple shipwrecked at sea.<\/p>\n

2. Tonight in Jungleland<\/b> by Peter Ames Carlin (Doubleday: $30) Inside the making of Bruce Springsteen\u2019s groundbreaking album “Born to Run.”<\/p>\n

3. King of Kings<\/b> by Scott Anderson (Doubleday: $35) A history of the Iranian Revolution offers insights into today’s global unrest.<\/p>\n

4. The Let Them Theory<\/b> by Mel Robbins (Hay House: $30) How to stop wasting energy on things you can’t control.<\/p>\n

5. The Serviceberry<\/b> 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

6. The Little Frog’s Guide to Self-Care<\/b> by Maybell Eequay (Summersdale: $12) Uplifting affirmations and life lessons with illustrations.<\/p>\n

7. Medieval Cats <\/b>by Catherine Nappington (Ten Speed Press: $16) A comical celebration of cats in artwork from medieval times.<\/p>\n

8. Everything Is Tuberculosis<\/b> by John Green (Crash Course Books: $28) The deeply human story of the fight against the world’s deadliest infectious disease.<\/p>\n

9. Are You Mad at Me?<\/b> by Meg Josephson (Gallery Books: $30) A guide to ending chronic people-pleasing habits.<\/p>\n

10. Forest Euphoria<\/b> by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian (Spiegel & Grau: $30) An exploration of the queerness of the natural world that challenges our expectations of what is normal, beautiful and possible.<\/p>\n

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Paperback fiction<\/p>\n

1. Project Hail Mary<\/b> by Andy Weir (Ballantine: $20)<\/p>\n

2. I Who Have Never Known Men<\/b> by Jacqueline Harpman (Transit Books: $17)<\/p>\n

3. All Fours<\/b> by Miranda July (Riverhead Books: $19)<\/p>\n

4. Martyr!<\/b> by Kaveh Akbar (Vintage: $18)<\/p>\n

5. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store<\/b> by James McBride (Riverhead Books: $19)<\/p>\n

6. Demon Copperhead<\/b> by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper Perennial: $22)<\/p>\n

7. Remarkably Bright Creatures<\/b> by Shelby Van Pelt (Ecco: $20)<\/p>\n

8. Accomplice to the Villain<\/b> by Hannah Nicole Maehrer (Entangled: Red Tower Books: $20)<\/p>\n

9. One Golden Summer<\/b> by Carley Fortune (Berkley: $19)<\/p>\n

10. The Midnight Library<\/b> by Matt Haig (Penguin: $18)<\/p>\n

\u2026<\/p>\n

Paperback nonfiction<\/p>\n

1. On Tyranny<\/b> by Timothy Snyder (Crown: $12)<\/p>\n

2. Didion and Babitz<\/b> by Lili Anolik (Scribner: $20)<\/p>\n

3. The Wide Wide Sea<\/b> by Hampton Sides (Vintage: $19)<\/p>\n

4. The Wager<\/b> by David Grann (Vintage: $21)<\/p>\n

5. All the Beauty in the World <\/b>by Patrick Bringley (Simon & Schuster: $19)<\/p>\n

6. The Friday Afternoon Club<\/b> by Griffin Dunne (Penguin Books: $21)<\/p>\n

7. Catching the Big Fish<\/b> by David Lynch (Tarcher: $20)<\/p>\n

8. The Art Thief<\/b> by Michael Finkel (Vintage: $18)<\/p>\n

9. The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine<\/b> by Rashid Khalidi (Metropolitan Books: $20)<\/p>\n

10. The Artist’s Way<\/b> by Julia Cameron (TarcherPerigee: $24)<\/p>\n

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