Top 10 Books: ‘Winter Soldier’ heats up, ‘Questioneers’ rivets

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The top-selling titles at Petaluma’s Copperfield’s Book Store, for the week of Sept. 17-23, 2018.

For the first time in a month, Bob Woodward’s “Fear: Trump in the Whitehouse” has been chased out of its space as the No. 1 bestselling book in Petaluma. Taking over the spot is Daniel Mason’s “The Winter Soldier,” the story of an idealistic WWI medical student attempting to stay sane, optimistic and alive while serving in a freezing battlefield hospital in the Carpathian Mountains. For now, “Fear” has dropped a peg to the No. 2 slot, but could likely be back on top next week, as the polarizing but highly-readable tome shows tremendous staying power.

Possibly kindled by recent news about the U.S. Supreme Court, justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s memoir “My Own Words” has risen to the No. 3 spot on the list, while elsewhere on the list, Petaluma writer Susan Avery Stewart’s “Winter’s Graces” appears for the first time, showing up at No. 5.

Meanwhile, on the list of bestselling books for kids and young adults, Andrea Beaty’s “Questioneers: Rosie Revere and the Raucous Riveters” has been promoted to top spot, rising impressively from the No. 9 spot it occupied last week. A spin-off, of sorts, from Beaty’s popular series of STEAM-based picture books (“Rosie Revere, Engineer,” “Iggy Peck, Architect,” “Ada Twist, Scientist”), this is the first in a new chapter book series, following Rosie, Iggy and Ada as they help out a crew of WWII airplane builders.

That science theme continues with “The Third Mushroom” (No. 2), Jennifer Holm’s sequel to her bestselling novel “The Fourteenth Goldfish.” The new one continues the story of middle grader Ellie, who enters the school science fair with the help of her oddball cousin Melvin – who is secretly her scientist granddad trapped in a boy’s body.

Also new to the list this week is Val Emmich’s “Dear Evan Hansen” (No. 8), a novelization of the hit Broadway musical about a high schooler with anxiety disorder who finds himself posing as the former best friend of a recently deceased fellow student.

FICTION & NON-FICTION

1. ‘The Winter Soldier,’ by Daniel

Mason

2. ‘Fear,’ by Bob Woodward

3. ‘My Own Words,’ by Ruth

Bader Ginsburg

4. ‘Killing Commendatore,’ by

Haruki Murakami

5. ‘Winter’s Graces,’ by Susan

Avery Stewart

6. ‘The Sun and Her Flowers,’

by Rupi Kaur

7. ‘The Witch Elm,’ by Tana French

8. ‘Fifth Risk,’ by Michael Lewis

9. ‘Exiled,’ by Katya Cengel

10. ‘Stop Mass Hysteria,’

by Michael Savage

KIDS & YOUNG ADULTS

1. ‘Questioneers: Rosie

Revere and the Raucous

Riveters,’

by Andrea Beaty

2. ‘The Third Mushroom,’ by Jennifer Holm

3. ‘Mac B., Kid Spy:

Mac Undercover,’ by

Mac Barnett

4. ‘Wall in the Middle of

the Book,’ by Jon Agee

5. ‘Dog Man: Lord of the

Fleas,’ by Dav Pilkey

6. ‘Amulet: Supernova,’

by Kazu Kibuishi

7. ‘Boats on the Bay,’ by

Jeanne Walker Harvey

8. ‘Dear Evan Hansen,’

by Val Emmich

9. ‘How to Be a Lion,’

by Ed Vere

10. ‘The Baby-Sitters

Club Graphix: Kristy’s

Big Day,’ by Ann M.

Martin

(Data compiled by Amber-Rose Reed of Copperfield’s Books)

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