Books about performing artists and entertainers usually dominate our most popular books lists. Memoirs by Al Pacino (Sonny Boy) and Lisa Marie Presley (From Here to The Great Unknown) rose to the top of today's list. Other related memoirs include Kelly Bishop's The Third Gilmore Girl, Earth To Moon by Moon Unit Zappa, director Jon Chu's Viewfinder.
Drawn Testimony offers Jane Rosenberg's unique perspective as a 40 year courtroom sketch artist. What's Next, Melissa Fitzgerald and Marcy McCormack's memoir of The West Wing, provides a behind-the-scenes look at the television show. Emily Nussbaum's Cue The Sun looks at the popular phenomenon of reality TV.
William Finnegan's surfing memoir Barbarian Days has been circulating consistently over the past decade that we have offered the title. Danny Lyon's photo documentation of motorcycle culture, The Bikeriders, first published in 1968 and reprinted in 2014 remains a hot title.
Craft books often figure among our most popular titles, this time including Making Things, 15 Minute Art Watercolour, and Knitting for Olive. Works discussing the creative process like The Long Run and Assembling Tomorrow are also perennially popular.
Daniel Levitin's I Heard There Was a Special Chord explores the global looking at the relationship between music and healing. Paris In Ruins by Sebastian Smee ties the birth of French impression to its larger historical context. Memories of Home by decorator Heidi Caillier is a welcome addition to our interior decoration shelves.
From Here to The Great Unknown: A Memoir by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough (Random House, 2024).
What's Next: A Backstage Pass to The West Wing, Its Cast and Crew, and Its Enduring Legacy of Service by Melissa Fitzgerald & Mary McCormack (Dutton, 2024).
The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir by Kelly Bishop, with Lindsay Harrison (Gallery Books 2024).
I Heard There Was A Secret Chord: Music as Medicine by Daniel J. Levitin (W.W. Norton & Company, 2024).
The Bikeriders by Danny Lyon (Aperture, 2014).
Paris In Ruins: Love, War, and The Birth of Impressionism by Sebastian Smee (W.W. Norton & Company, 2024)
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan (Penguin Press, 2015).
Making Things: Finding Use, Meaning & Satisfaction in Crafting Everyday Objects by Erin Boyle & Rose Pearlman (Hardie Grant North America, 2024).
15 Minute Art Watercolour: Learn to Paint in Six Steps or Less by Jola Sopek (Hardie Grant Books, 2024).
Earth to Moon: A Memoir by Moon Unit Zappa (Dey St., 2024).
The Long Run: A Creative Inquiry by Stacey D'Erasmo (Graywolf Press, 2024).
Drawn Testimony: My Four Decades as A Courtroom Sketch Artist by Jane Rosenberg (Hanover Square Press, 2024).
Cue The Sun: The Invention of Reality TV by Emily Nussbaum (Random House, 2024).
Memories of Home: Interiors by Heidi Caillier (Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 2023).
Viewfinder: A Memoir of Seeing and Being Seen by Jon M. Chu and Jeremy McCarter (Random House, 2024).
Knitting for Olive: Classic, Timeless Knitting Patterns (Interweave, 2023)
The Selby Comes Home by Todd Selby (Abrams, 2024).
Assembling Tomorrow: A Guide to Designing a Thriving Future by Carissa Carter and Scott Doorley (Ten Speed Press, 2024).
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