The Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau is thrilled that each week many of our speakers are on The New York Times Bestseller List. Check back here for a current selection of who is on this week’s list:
Hardcover Fiction
1: The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett
“Bennett’s tone and style recalls James Baldwin and Jacqueline Woodson, but it’s especially reminiscent of Toni Morrison’s 1970 debut novel, The Bluest Eye.” —Kiley Reid, Wall Street Journal
5: Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens
“Steeped in the rhythms and shadows of the coastal marshes of North Carolina’s Outer Banks, this fierce and hauntingly beautiful novel centers on…Kya’s heartbreaking story of learning to trust human connections, intertwine[d] with a gripping murder mystery, revealing savage truths. An astonishing debut.”—People
15: The Sentinel – Lee Child
“One of the many great things about Jack Reacher is that he’s larger than life while remaining relatable and believable. The Sentinel shows that two Childs are even better than one.”—James Patterson
Hardcover Nonfiction
4: Caste - Isabel Wilkerson
“An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far…. It’s a book that changes the weather inside a reader.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times
Combined Print and eBook Bestsellers Fiction
2: The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett
“Bennett’s tone and style recalls James Baldwin and Jacqueline Woodson, but it’s especially reminiscent of Toni Morrison’s 1970 debut novel, The Bluest Eye.” —Kiley Reid, Wall Street Journal
Combined Print and eBook Bestsellers Nonfiction
4: Caste - Isabel Wilkerson
“An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far…. It’s a book that changes the weather inside a reader.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times
Paperback Nonfiction
4: The Warmth of Other Suns - Isabel Wilkerson
“The Warmth of Other Suns is a brilliant and stirring epic… Ms. Wilkerson does for the Great Migration what John Steinbeck did for the Okies in his fiction masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath; she humanizes history, giving it emotional and psychological depth.” —John Stauffer, The Wall Street Journal
Audio Fiction
3: The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett
“Bennett’s tone and style recalls James Baldwin and Jacqueline Woodson, but it’s especially reminiscent of Toni Morrison’s 1970 debut novel, The Bluest Eye.” —Kiley Reid, Wall Street Journal
13: Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens
“Steeped in the rhythms and shadows of the coastal marshes of North Carolina’s Outer Banks, this fierce and hauntingly beautiful novel centers on…Kya’s heartbreaking story of learning to trust human connections, intertwine[d] with a gripping murder mystery, revealing savage truths. An astonishing debut.”—People
Audio Nonfiction
3: Caste - Isabel Wilkerson
“An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far…. It’s a book that changes the weather inside a reader.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times
15: The Warmth of Other Suns - Isabel Wilkerson
“The Warmth of Other Suns is a brilliant and stirring epic… Ms. Wilkerson does for the Great Migration what John Steinbeck did for the Okies in his fiction masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath; she humanizes history, giving it emotional and psychological depth.” —John Stauffer, The Wall Street Journal
Mass Market
11: When You See Me - Lisa Gardner
“Lisa Gardner is a master of the psychological thriller that dives deep into the minds of characters that experience trauma and come out stronger from the experience.”–Associated Press
Young Adult Paperback
1: We Were Liars Deluxe Edition - E. Lockhart
“Haunting, sophisticated . . . a novel so twisty and well-told that it will appeal to older readers as well as to adolescents.” —The Wall Street Journal
2: The Book Thief (Anniversary Edition) - Markus Zusak
“One of the most highly anticipated young-adult books in years.” –The Wall Street Journal
3: Dear Martin - Nic Stone
“A powerful, wrenching, and compulsively readable story that lays bare the history, and the present, of racism in America.” –John Green, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down
8: - Sabaa Tahir
“This novel is a harrowing, haunting reminder of what it means to be human — and how hope might be kindled in the midst of oppression and fear.” — The Washington Post
9: Dear Martin - Nic Stone
“A powerful, wrenching, and compulsively readable story that lays bare the history, and the present, of racism in America.” –John Green, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down