NPR Bestsellers: Hardcover Fiction, Week Of April 2, 2015
Adam Price's whole life is thrown into a state of confusion after a brief conversation with a stranger at a bar. Harlan Coben's The Stranger debuts at No. 4.
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NPR Bestsellers: Hardcover Nonfiction, Week Of April 2, 2015
In Becoming Steve Jobs, Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli present a behind-the-scenes account of the tech entrepreneur's rise. It debuts at No. 7.
NPR Bestsellers: Paperback Fiction, Week Of April 2, 2015
After an unexpected tragedy, Shea Rigsby decides to finally leave the town where she's lived and worked her entire life. Emily Giffin's The One & Only appears at at No. 13.
NPR Bestsellers: Paperback Nonfiction, Week Of April 2, 2015
Michael Lewis explains how Wall Street continues to be controlled by large banks, and introduces the small group of Wall Street men that's trying to change that, in Flash Boys. It appears at No. 6.
Mantel Takes Up Betrayal, Beheadings In 'Bodies'
Hilary Mantel is the first woman to win the Man Booker Prize twice, first for her 2009 novel, Wolf Hall, and also for its 2012 sequel, Bring Up the Bodies. She discusses the books with Terry Gross.
'The Brothers' Examines Motivation Behind Boston Marathon Bombing
David Greene talks to author Masha Gessen about her new book, The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy, a look into the experiences that led the Tsarnaev brothers to carry out the Boston Bombing.
Questions For David Levithan, Author Of 'Hold Me Closer'
Tiny Cooper, the breakout star of the 2010 novel Will Grayson, Will Grayson, steps center stage in its companion novel — a fully realized version of an epic musical Tiny's written about his own life.
If Drugs Could Talk: In 'Delicious Foods' They Do
In James Hannaham's novel Delicious Foods, addiction itself is a character — it even narrates some of the chapters. The book imagines what slavery would look like in modern America.
'New Yorker' Cartoonist And TV Producer Writes 'Honest Portrait' Of His Parents
Bruce Eric Kaplan's illustrated memoir I Was A Child describes his life in Maplewood, N.J., in the '60s and '70s. He says it's a way of keeping his parents alive, "not just for me, but for the world."
Voyage Through An Adventurous Alternate Universe With 'Basilisk'
Voyage of the Basilisk is the latest book in Marie Brennan's Memoirs of Lady Trent series; critic Genevieve Valentine says if you love dragons like Lady Trent does, now's the time to get acquainted.