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A bookshop window display with bestseller titles. — Crossover Hit: A translated literary novel reaches both fiction lists. | Source: Aaron Burden

Arts

Bestseller Watch: A Literary Crossover That Hit Both Lists

Eden Alvares's The Hollowing has reached both the literary and the broader fiction bestseller lists, an unusual achievement for a translated work.

Open hardcover books stacked beside a steaming cup of coffee.

Arts

Book Review: Eden Alvares's The Hollowing Marks a Major Literary Voice

By Imogen Hart a month ago

Children's picture books arranged on a wooden shelf.

Arts

Children's Books on the List: A Different Kind of Bestseller Pattern

By Imogen Hart a month ago

An old leather-bound ledger book with handwritten entries.

Arts

Book Review: The Ledger Keepers Reframes the History of Modern Finance

By Imogen Hart a month ago

A book open on a wooden table beside a window with soft afternoon light.

Arts

Memoir Review: Sam Aldous's Borrowed Light Sustains Its Difficult Honesty

By Imogen Hart a month ago

A cookbook open on a wooden counter beside fresh ingredients.

Arts

A New Cookbook That Earns Its Bestseller Place

By Imogen Hart a month ago

A bookshop window display.

Graphics

Graphics: Five Years of Bestseller-List Composition, Visualised

By Imogen Hart a month ago

Stacked books on a wooden surface with various spines visible.

Arts

Bestseller List Composition Tells the Real Story of Reading Habits

By Imogen Hart a month ago

A bookshop window display with bestseller titles on stands.

Arts

Genre Fiction Imprint Closes Year With Five Titles in Top Ten

By Imogen Hart a month ago

A stack of older books with worn spines on a wooden table.

Arts

Sunday Essay: What the Bestseller List Has Always Been For

By Imogen Hart a month ago

A stack of older books with worn spines on a wooden table.

Opinion

What We Lose When We Stop Reading Difficult Books

By Imogen Hart a month ago

A bookshop window display.

Arts

Bestseller Watch: A Thriller That Is Actually Worth the Hype

By Imogen Hart a month ago

A book open on a wooden table beside a window with afternoon light.

Arts

Sunday Essay: What Sustained Reading Does to a Mind

By Imogen Hart a month ago

An open book with handwritten notes beside.

Arts

Bestseller Watch: A Self-Help Book That Refuses the Usual Tricks

By Imogen Hart 2 months ago

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