Publishers Weekly - 04.11.2019

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Three cooks, each of whom built a platform in a different medium,
serve up new books.
Ree Drummond, who started blogging as Pioneer Woman in
2006, has the #1 book in the country with The Pioneer Woman
Cooks: The New Frontier, with more than 100 recipes for what
she calls “everyday eating,” including Instant Pot pumpkin spice
oatmeal and Mean Green Mac & Cheese.
Binging with Babish by Andrew Rea, #9 overall, is named for the
author’s 5.5 million–subscriber YouTube channel. Our review found the
book’s film- and TV-inspired recipes
“creative, if perplexing”: Amid dishes
“that enthusiastic readers will be enticed
to try,” there are “several recipes that Rea
acknowledges are inedible,” such as what
he calls the “pretty gross” Dothraki
blood pie recreated from Game of Thrones.
At #9 in hardcover nonfiction, Noth-
ing Fancy is new from Alison Roman,
whose recipes—salted chocolate chunk
shortbread cookies and spiced chickpea
stew with coconut and turmeric, to name two—have a
tendency to go viral on Instagram. The website the Kitchn
wrote in 2018 that Roman’s #thecookies “broke the internet.”

Measuring Up

Mackesy’s Menagerie

Debuting at #5 in hardcover fiction, The Boy, the Mole,

the Fox and the Horse is an illustrated fable by British

artist Charlie Mackesy, who worked for the Spectator and as

an illustrator for Oxford University Press before he began

exhibiting his work in galleries. He’s found fame through

his Instagram account (178K followers) and high-profile fans

including Whoopi Goldberg, Sting, and Elizabeth Gilbert.

TOP 10 OVERALL

1 The Pioneer Woman Cooks: The New Frontier Ree Drummond Morrow 92,

2 The Night Fire Michael Connelly Little, Brown 56,

3 The Guardians John Grisham Doubleday 55,

4 Me Elton John Holt 33,

5 For Whom the Ball Rolls (Dog Man #7) Dav Pilkey Graphix 31,

6 Guts Raina Telgemeier Graphix 23,

7 Catch and Kill Ronan Farrow Little, Brown 22,

8 Tales from a Not-So-Best Friend... (Dork Diaries #14) Rachel Renée Russell Aladdin 21,

9 Binging with Babish Andrew Rea HMH 21,

10 The Deserter DeMille/DeMille Simon & Schuster 21,

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BY CAROLYN JURIS

Behind the Bestsellers OCT. 20–26, 2019

NEW & NOTABLE

THE NIGHT FIRE

Michael Connelly

#1 Hardcover Fiction,

#2 overall

“Connelly’s superlative

second novel featuring

detectives Renée Ballard

and Harry Bosch together,”

our starred review said,

“once again proves that he’s the modern

master” of police procedurals.

THE DESERTER

Nelson DeMille

and Alex DeMille

#3 Hardover Fiction,

#10 overall

DeMille père teams up with

his screenwriter son for the

launch of a thriller trilogy

starring, according to our

starred review, “Scott Brodie, a hardened

ex-soldier with impulsive, rogue tendencies,

and Maggie Taylor, a cunning by-the-book

Army cop who does her best to rein in

Brodie’s urges, both investigative and sexual.”

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