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Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, May 29, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by NPD BookScan

Zakiya Dalila Harris makes a thrilling debut with The Other Black Girl, journalist Mike Rothschild takes on QAnon, New Yorker writer Sheldon Pearce assembles a Tupac oral history, and more books to read in June.

The Ultimate Summer Escape: Historical Fiction New novels — by turns salty, sweeping and sweet — will transport you to 1930s Italy, 19th-century England and San Francisco a hundred years ago. Credit...Ryan Gillett May 27, 2021, 9:55 a.m. ET If you think of historical fiction as a way of translating the past, does your perspective change when that fiction has been translated from another language? As some of the season’s best new historical novels suggest, this added dimension can make a b...

Lisa Taddeo, whose book "Three Women" broke the mold of immersive journalism, talks about her first novel, "Animal," and the struggle to write and live.

This seasons titles include a hefty dose of books about books and white collar business tales that read more like thrillers than nonfiction. This list will keep you entertained long after summer

Sharon Lewin has called on Australians not to put off getting COVID-19 vaccinations, explaining to The Sydney Morning Herald that doctors have learned more about the rare blood-clotting condition linked to the AstraZeneca shot and are beginning to see milder cases. At the same time, Guardian Australia reports that more than 1.5 million shots — or about one in every four distributed — are now sitting unused in clinics across the country. Scott Morrison yesterday declared he was “not ove...

Torri Newman was working a red-eye flight from Los Angeles to New York when she had a thought. Now its a novel and will soon be a movie.

MONEY BUSINESS Tomorrow’s budget will include a $17.7 billion aged care package to be delivered over four years, which The Australian ($) reports will focus on a workforce initiative “as well as incentives to prop up private residential operators to ensure they remain profitable”. Health and Aged Care Minister Greg Hunt will tomorrow respond to recommendations from last year’s damning royal commission — which the Australia Institute’s Centre for Future Work last week estimated wo...

ON THE MONEY With Treasurer Josh Frydenberg set to deliver his second COVID-19 budget today, a final round of pre-budget drops has revealed: Better-than-projected projected post-COVID jobs figures will slash the forecast budget deficit from $213.7 billion to $161 billion, and funding for mental health services will be lifted by more than $500 million a year A workforce plan will include ‘‘intensive support’’ for retraining Australians and more funding for job service providers — wh...

The founder of the Brown Girl Therapy Instagram account, Sahaj Kaur Kohli, But What Will People Say?, to Penguin Life’s Emily Wunderlich at auction. Brown Girl Therapy bills itself as “the first/largest mental health community for children of immigrants,” and the book, subtitled On Navigating Mental Health as a Child of Immigrants, will expand upon the account. The publisher said it will combine “personal narrative, anecdotal analysis, comprehensive research, and advice on what it me...