Hi! Welcome to what will become a regular column highlighting the bestselling books of the week at the Raven Book Store!
This week, a strong debut week lands Stacey Abrams’s excellent new legal thriller at the top of the list. Further down the list, the PBR Book Club bump drives sales for an exciting new feminist translation of Beowulf.
1. Stacey Abrams, While Justice Sleeps
2. Danny Caine, How to Resist Amazon and Why: The Fight for Local Economics, Data Privacy, Fair Labor, Independent Bookstores, and a People-Powered Future!
3. Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
4. Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering How the Forest Is Wired for Intelligence and Healing
5. Meg Heriford, Ladybird, Collected
6. Danny Caine, Flavortown
7. Jason Reynolds, Stamped (for Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You
8. Maria Dahvana Headley, Beowulf
9. bell hooks, Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
10. Gwen Strauss, Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany