Carolyn Juris

Sales Snapshot If there are any middle schoolers out there who haven’t yet read Dog Man #14, Big Jim Believes, or Wimpy Kid #20, Partypooper, it’s very possible they’re going to be unwrapping Dav Pilkey or Jeff Kinney’s latest—or both—this holiday season.... See more

Something to Write Home About Virginia Evans’s debut novel, The Correspondent—“an appealing family drama,” per our review—pubbed in April with a blurb from author-bookseller Ann Patchett and modest first-week print unit sales. Soon after, word of mouth se... See more

Strong words Six months after James Islington’s The Will of the Many pubbed, BookTok embraced the epic fantasy series launch for the 2023 holiday season, and it’s gone on to sell 202K print copies. His follow-up, The Strength of the Few, sold more than 30... See more

Star Turns Country Music Hall of Fame inductee Kenny Chesney has the #1 book in the country with Heart Life Music, a “down-to-earth memoir,” per our review, that “traces his ascent from small-town Tennessee to country music stardom.” In Bottom of the Pyra... See more

A Toonie for her Thoughts Louise Penny’s 20th Chief Insp. Gamache mystery, The Black Wolf, lands at #2 on our hardcover fiction list; our starred review called it “exemplary.” In March, Penny, who is Canadian, canceled plans for a U.S. tour, citing “the o... See more