Publishers Weekly - 04.11.2019

Contents

DEPARTMENTS & COLUMNS

18 Open Book

Debut novelist Gabriel Bump delves into a boy’s life in inner-city

Chicago.

64 Soapbox by Kacen Callender

An author argues that publishers should hire more diverse editors,

since white editors often don’t relate to stories about people of

color.

BESTSELLERS

● Adult Hardcovers 14 ● Adult Paperbacks 15

● Children’s 16 ● Apple Books 17

REVIEWS

Fiction

36 General Fiction

39 Mystery/Thriller

44 SF/Fantasy/Horror

46 Romance/Erotica

47 Comics

Nonfiction

49 General Nonfiction

54 Lifestyle

56 Religion/Spirituality

Children’s

58 Picture Books

59 Fiction

63 Comics

40

Q&A with

Rennie Airth

45

Q&A with

Natasha Pulley

37

Boxed Review

Cesare

60

Reviews Roundup

Children’s books on music

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