Every Wednesday, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association publishes the regional bestseller list. On Thursdays, we celebrate Thursday Themes to shine a spotlight on some of the books from the list and give our brains a different way of thinking about books.
The descriptions of these bestselling hardcover novels indicate there might be either a lot going on in them or just some things that might take a lot of explaining. Either way, “it’s complicated.” Intrigued? We are!
Playground Richard Powers (#2 Hardcover Fiction)
“Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel…”
Somewhere Beyond the Sea TJ Klune (#3 Hardcover Fiction)
“He’s the headmaster of a strange orphanage on a distant and peculiar island, and he hopes to soon be the adoptive father to the six magical and so-called dangerous children who live there…”
Polostan Neal Stephenson (#8 Hardcover Fiction)
“…the first installment in a monumental new series–an expansive historical epic of intrigue and international espionage, presaging the dawn of the Atomic Age.”
All Fours Miranda July (#11 Hardcover Fiction)
“July’s novel is hot and weird and captivating and one of the most entertaining, deranged, and moving depictions of lust and romantic mania I’ve ever read.” —New York Magazine
Bull Moon Rising Ruby Dixon (#14 Hardcover Fiction)
“In a world of magical artifacts and fantastical beings, a woman determined to save her family joins forces with an unlikely partner–a minotaur–in this steamy romantasy…”
The Ministry of Time Kaliane Bradley (#15 Hardcover Fiction)
“A time travel romance, a spy thriller, a workplace comedy, and an ingenious exploration of the nature of power and the potential for love to change it all…”
