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
10: 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
“I can’t even express how much I love this book! I didn’t want this story to end!”–Reese Witherspoon
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
14: 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
7: Minor Feelings - Cathy Park Hong
“Minor Feelings is a major reckoning, pulling no punches as the author uses her life’s flashpoints to give voice to a wider Asian American experience, one with cascading consequences.”—NPR
11: 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
15: Hidden Valley Road - Robert Kolker
“Hidden Valley Road is a riveting true story of an American family that reads like a medical detective journey and sheds light on a topic so many of us face: mental illness.”—Oprah Winfrey
Audio Fiction
9: 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
Audio 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
7: Four Hundred Souls - Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
“A vital addition to [the] curriculum on race in America . . . a gateway to the solo works of all the voices in Kendi and Blain’s impressive choir.”—The Washington Post
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
5: The Book Thief (Anniversary Edition) - Markus Zusak
“One of the most highly anticipated young-adult books in years.” –The Wall Street Journal