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Boston Globe
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
Local bestsellers for the week ended June 22
3. Penguin Press 4. Atria Books 5. Tor Books 6. Berkley 7. Scribner 8. Doubleday 9. Mariner Books 10. Little, Brown and Company HARDCOVER NONFICTION 1. Mel Robbins Hay House LL C Advertisement 2. Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up 3. John Green Crash Course Books 4. Crown 5. Scribner 6. Penguin Press 7. W.W. Norton & Company 8. Random House Advertisement 9. Pantheon 10. Penguin Press PAPERBACK FICTION 1. Harper Perennial 2. Berkley 3. Ecco 4. Riverhead Books 5. Vintage 6. Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster 7. Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster 8. Berkley 9. Vintage 10. Vintage PAPERBACK NONFICTION 1. Vintage 2. Crown 3. Michael Finkel Vintage 4. Vintage 5. Holt Paperbacks 6. Harper Perennial Advertisement 7. Milkweed Editions 8. Penguin 9. Penguin Books 10. Haymarket Books The New England Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and NEIBA, for the week ended Sunday, June 22, 2025. Based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the New England Independent Booksellers Association and IndieBound. For an independent bookstore near you, visit
Los Angeles Times
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
The week's bestselling books, June 29
1. Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Ballantine Books: $30) A story of friendship, love and adversity during the 1980s Space Shuttle program. 2. The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong (Penguin Press: $30) An unlikely pair develops a life-altering bond. 3. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab (Tor Books: $30) A vampiric tale follows three women across the centuries. 4. James by Percival Everett (Doubleday: $28) An action-packed reimagining of 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.' 5. Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry (Berkley: $29) Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of an heiress. 6. King of Ashes by S. A. Cosby (Flatiron Books: Pine & Cedar: $29) A man returns to his roots to save his family in this Southern crime epic. 7. 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. 8. The River Is Waiting by Wally Lamb (S&S/Marysue Rucci Books: $30) A young father grapples with tragedy and the search for redemption. 9. Nightshade by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown & Co.: $30) The bestselling crime writer returns with a new cop on a mission, this time on Catalina Island. 10. With a Vengeance by Riley Sager (Dutton: $30) A deadly game of survival and revenge plays out on a luxury train heading from Philadelphia to Chicago. … 1. Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster: $30) A call to renew a politics of plenty and abandon the chosen scarcities that have deformed American life. 2. The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins (Hay House: $30) How to stop wasting energy on things you can't control. 3. Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green (Crash Course Books: $28) The deeply human story of the fight against the world's deadliest infectious disease. 4. Steve Martin Writes the Written Word by Steve Martin (Grand Central Publishing: $30) A collection of greatest hits from the beloved actor and comedian. 5. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad (Knopf: $28) Reckoning with what it means to live in a West that betrays its fundamental values. 6. Mark Twain by Ron Chernow (Penguin Press: $45) The Pulitzer-winning biographer explores the life of the celebrated American writer. 7. The Creative Act by Rick Rubin (Penguin: $32) The music producer on how to be a creative person. 8. The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer and John Burgoyne (illustrator) (Scribner: $20) The 'Braiding Sweetgrass' author on gratitude, reciprocity and community, and the lessons to take from the natural world. 9. I Regret Almost Everything by Keith McNally (Gallery Books: $30) The restaurateur relates his gritty childhood and rise in the dining scene. 10. It Rhymes With Takei by George Takei, Steven Scott, Justin Eisinger and Harmony Becker (illustrator) (Top Shelf Productions: $30) The actor and activist tells his most personal story of all in a full-color graphic memoir. … 1. All Fours by Miranda July (Riverhead Books: $19) 2. Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt (Ecco: $20) 3. The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster: $19) 4. Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar (Vintage: $18) 5. I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman (Transit Books: $17) 6. One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune (Berkley: $19) 7. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong (Penguin: $18) 8. Sandwich by Catherine Newman (Harper Perennial: $19) 9. Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler (Grand Central: $20) 10. The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon (Vintage: $18) … 1. On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder (Crown: $12) 2. The Wager by David Grann (Vintage: $21) 3. The Body Keeps the Score by Dr. Bessel van der Kolk (Penguin: $19) 4. The Wide Wide Sea by Hampton Sides (Vintage: $19) 5. The Friday Afternoon Club by Griffin Dunne (Penguin: $21) 6. Sociopath by Patric Gagne (Simon & Schuster: $20) 7. The Light Eaters by Zoë Schlanger (Harper Perennial: $20) 8. The Art Thief by Michael Finkel (Vintage: $18) 9. Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey (Crown: $20) 10. The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron (TarcherPerigee: $20)
New York Post
21-06-2025
- New York Post
How Tacoma, Washington became the serial-killer capitol of America
In 1996, Jack Spillman (a k a the Werewolf Butcher) confessed to murdering three people, two of them children and one just 9 years old. His brutality was staggering, not just raping his victims but dismembering them, drinking their blood and removing their sexual organs. Bob Keppel — the chief criminal investigator for the attorney general of Washington state, where the murders were committed and Spillman lived — told reporters that 'killers like Spillman, mutilators who commit cannibalism, vampirism, and necrophilia, are exceptionally rare, representing less than a tenth of 1 percent of all murderers,' writes Caroline Fraser in her new book, 'Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers' (Penguin Press), out June 10. 6 Despite its small size, the area around Tacoma, Wa is responsible for producing an outsized number of serial killers. Corbis via Getty Images 6 Charles Manson spent five years behind bars on Tacoma's McNeil Island during the early '60s. vmodica What he failed to mention was that many of these 'rare breed' serial killers had 'spent quality time in Tacoma, a place where paraphilias flourish like fungi,' she writes. The Pacific Northwest is known for five things, writes Fraser: lumber, aircraft, tech, coffee and serial killers. 'If you take a ruler and lay it down in 1961 and connect the dots between Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, and Gary Ridgway, you can practically draw a straight line,' writes Fraser. Is it just an unlucky coincidence? Or could it, wonders Fraser, have something to do with the region's high concentration of smelters, factories that release high levels of arsenic, cyanide, lead and other dangerous chemicals into the air? In 2018, Washington state's Department of Ecology launched an online resource called 'Dirt Alert,' a block‑by‑block map of lead and arsenic contamination. Of the four major 'plumes' — the largest area of contaminated soil, usually located near smelters, industrial factories used to extract metals from ore — every one of them 'has hosted the activities of one or more serial rapists or murderers,' writes Fraser. The author fully acknowledges that pollution is far from the only explanation. 'Recipes for making a serial killer may vary, including such ingredients as poverty, crude forceps deliveries, poor diet, physical and sexual abuse, brain damage, and neglect,' she writes. 'But what happens if we add a light dusting from the periodic table on top of all that trauma? 6 Ted Bundy — who confessed to murdering 30 women before being sentenced to death by electric chair in 1989 — moved to Tacoma with his mom when he was just 3. Bettmann Archive Ground zero for this theory is Tacoma, a port city 30 miles southwest of Seattle. It's been home to a staggering 53 industrial plants, including one run by the American Smelting and Refining Company. Since the early 20th century, the putrid odor of sulfur, chlorine, lye and ammonia coming from these factories has been dubbed 'the aroma of Tacoma.' 6 The now-shuttered ASARCO copper smelter in Tacoma, WA. Dept. of Ecology, State of Washington It was also the home of Spillman, who moved there with his mother at age 7. Between 1976 and 1982, he lived 6 miles from ASARCO. Gary Ridgway, also known as the Green River Killer was one of the most prolific serial killers in US history, strangling at least 49 prostitutes, runaways and teenage girls. He grew up just a few miles from the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, where in addition to pollution from the Tacoma smokestacks, he also ingested jet fuel fumes from airplanes still flying on leaded gas. Ted Bundy — who confessed to murdering 30 women before being sentenced to death by electric chair in 1989 — moved to Tacoma with his mom when he was just 3, to a neighborhood where smokestacks 'filled the air with redolent particulates.' 6 Book cover for 'Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers' by Caroline Fraser. Charles Manson, soon-to-be leader of a murderous cult, spent five years behind bars on Tacoma's McNeil Island during the early '60s, where 'virtually everything Manson eats and drinks comes out of the earth, where particulates from the Ruston plume have been drifting down to the ground since 1890,' writes Fraser. 'He'll live on McNeil Island longer than he's lived in any place in his life.' Even David Brame, a former police chief at Tacoma, became a killer, murdering his wife in front of his two young children, 8 and 5, and also allegedly raping a woman at gunpoint in 1988. Studies have backed up Fraser's theory, proving again and again that 'childhood lead exposure is associated with aggression, psychopathy, and crime,' writes Fraser. 6 The connection between air quality and serial killing may have a longer history than we realize, writes Pulitzer Prize-winning author Caroline Fraser. A 2001 study examined homicide rates and air lead levels in 3,111 counties across the US. Researchers found that 'the incidence of homicide is nearly 4 percent higher in counties with high air lead concentration than in counties with no lead,' writes Fraser. The connection between air quality and serial killing may have a longer history than we realize. As Fraser points out, Jack the Ripper, who terrorized London in 1888, was breathing air contaminated by burning bituminous coal, which produced 'prodigious amounts of soot, smoke, gas, and ash,' writes Fraser. The ASARCO smokestack was finally demolished in 1993, and many other smelters soon followed. 'Their profitability slashed by falling prices and by EPA regulations,' writes Fraser. But the damage is still lingering. 'Whatever's left in the environment is still there,' writes Fraser. 'It coats the medians and byways of every major interstate . . . It's in the bodies and bones and teeth of everyone who grew up with it.' Every once in a while, she writes, 'it sets loose another Frankenstein's monster.'
Boston Globe
19-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
Local bestsellers for the week ended June 15
3. Wally Lamb S&S/Marysue Rucci Books 4. Penguin Press 5. Atria Books 6. Doubleday 7. Scribner 8. Little, Brown and Company 9. Knopf 10. Berkley HARDCOVER NONFICTION 1. Penguin Press Advertisement 2. Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster 3. Penguin Press Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up 4. Scribner 5. John Green Crash Course Books 6. W.W. Norton & Company 7. Crown 8. Little, Brown and Company Advertisement 9. Mel Robbins Hay House LL C 10. Grand Central Publishing PAPERBACK FICTION 1. Harper Perennial 2. Ecco 3. Berkley 4. Catapult 5. Riverhead Books 6. Vintage 7. Vintage 8. Random House Trade Paperbacks 9. Harper Perennial 10. Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster PAPERBACK NONFICTION 1. Vintage 2. Crown 3. Milkweed Editions 4. Harper Perennial 5. Vintage Advertisement 6. Michael Finkel Vintage 7. Penguin Books 8. Holt Paperbacks 9. Matt Kracht Chronicle Book 10. Knopf The New England Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and NEIBA, for the week ended Sunday, June 15, 2025. Based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the New England Independent Booksellers Association and IndieBound. For an independent bookstore near you, visit
Los Angeles Times
18-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
The week's bestselling books, June 22
1. The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong (Penguin Press: $30) An unlikely pair develops a life-altering bond. 2. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab (Tor Books: $30) A vampiric tale follows three women across the centuries. 3. Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Ballantine Books: $30) A story of friendship, love and adversity during the 1980s Space Shuttle program. 4. Nightshade by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown & Co.: $30) The bestselling crime writer returns with a new cop on a mission, this time on Catalina Island. 5. 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. 6. Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry (Berkley: $29) Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of an heiress. 7. James by Percival Everett (Doubleday: $28) An action-packed reimagining of 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.' 8. The God of the Woods by Liz Moore (Riverhead Books: $30) Worlds collide when a teenager vanishes from her Adirondacks summer camp. 9. The River Is Waiting by Wally Lamb (S&S/Marysue Rucci Books: $30) A young father grapples with tragedy and the search for redemption. 10. King of Ashes by S. A. Cosby (Flatiron Books: Pine & Cedar: $29) A man returns to his roots to save his family in this Southern crime epic. … 1. Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster: $30) A call to renew a politics of plenty and abandon the chosen scarcities that have deformed American life. 2. Steve Martin Writes the Written Word by Steve Martin (Grand Central Publishing: $30) A collection of greatest hits from the beloved actor and comedian. 3. The Creative Act by Rick Rubin (Penguin: $32) The music producer on how to be a creative person. 4. How to Lose Your Mother by Molly Jong-Fast (Viking: $28) The author's memoir on her intense relationship with her famed mother, writer Erica Jong. 5. Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane (W. W. Norton & Co.: $32) The naturalist explores rivers as living beings whose fate is tied with our own. 6. The Book of Alchemy by Suleika Jaouad (Random House: $30) A guide to the art of journaling, with contributions from Jon Batiste, Salman Rushdie, Gloria Steinem and others. 7. The #1 Dad Book by James Patterson (Little, Brown & Co.: $25) The bestselling author's tips on being a better father. 8. Mark Twain by Ron Chernow (Penguin Press: $45) The Pulitzer-winning biographer explores the life of the celebrated American writer. 9. The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer and John Burgoyne (illustrator) (Scribner: $20) The 'Braiding Sweetgrass' author on gratitude, reciprocity and community, and the lessons to take from the natural world. 10. The Haves and Have-Yachts by Evan Osnos (Scribner: $30) A collection of essays exploring American oligarchy and the culture of excess. … 1. Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar (Vintage: $18) 2. Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt (Ecco: $20) 3. All Fours by Miranda July (Riverhead Books: $19) 4. One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune (Berkley: $19) 5. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (HarperOne: $18) 6. The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster: $19) 7. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (Vintage: $19) 8. I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman (Transit Books: $17) 9. Problematic Summer Romance by Ali Hazelwood (Berkley: $20) 10. Orbital by Samantha Harvey (Grove Press: $17) … 1. The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron (TarcherPerigee: $20) 2. On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder (Crown: $12) 3. The Wager by David Grann (Vintage: $21) 4. The Art Thief by Michael Finkel (Vintage: $18) 5. Catching the Big Fish by David Lynch (Tarcher: $20) 6. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed Editions: $22) 7. The Light Eaters by Zoë Schlanger (Harper Perennial: $20) 8. Waiting for Britney Spears by Jeff Weiss (MCD: $19) 9. Historic Los Angeles Roadsides by Mimi Slawoff (Reedy Press: $27) 10. Sociopath by Patric Gagne (Simon & Schuster: $20)
