Note from the Times: This bestseller list comes to us straight from The Raven Book Store in Lawrence. See other editions of the list here.
Fun fact: the top three bestsellers this week are also the top three bestsellers of 2021 so far, halfway in!
Elsewhere on the list, we’re excited to see a debut from the paperback version of Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri. Miri and English translator Morgan Giles won the 2020 National Book Award for translated fiction, and it was Giles’s first translation! It really is a wonderful, beguiling little book.
1. Meg Heriford, Ladybird,Collected
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. Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
5. Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic
6. Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart
7. Devon A Mihesuah, Hatak Witches
8. Sharice Davids, Sharice’s Big Voice
9. Brandon Taylor, Filthy Animals
10. Yu Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station
