Publishers Weekly - 14.10.2019

26 PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ■ OCTOBER 14, 2019

The Future is Female—and Fierce as Hell

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For women ready to move beyond society’s expectations, embrace their sexual power, and cultivate

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By the time everyone had learned to pronounce hygge, a Danish word connoting comfort and contentment that

became a bona fide lifestyle trend, publishers were on the lookout for the next self-care watchword.

“We’re searching for other ways to live,” says John Siciliano, executive editor at Penguin Books and Penguin

Classics. “People are deeply unhappy, and that helps to explain why there’s been this explosion in publishing

global lifestyle. Readers are clearly responding to these books in a way that says they’re looking for other models.”

Titles rounded up here suggest new points on the map where readers may find the secrets to happiness, resilience,

and success.

The Art of Making Memories

Meik Wiking. Morrow, Oct.

The CEO of Copenhagen’s Happiness Institute blends personal anecdotes with research takeaways in his third

book, which follows 2017’s The Little Book of Hygge (200,000 print copies sold, per NPD BookScan) and 2018’s

The Little Book of Lykke. Wiking asked people to describe happy memories in his latest global study; responses

came from 75 countries. Though the specifics may differ from one culture to the next, meaningful, emotional

experiences that engage the senses are the foundation of happy memories the world over, Wiking writes. “We

might be Danish, Korean or South African, but we are first and foremost human.”

The Book of Ichigo Ichie

Héctor García and Francesc Miralles, trans. from the Spanish by Charlotte Whittle. Penguin Life, Jan. 2020

Tracing the concept of ichigo ichie, which recognizes the fleeting uniqueness of each moment, to a 16th-century

Japanese tea ceremony master, García and Miralles show readers how to approach even the most mundane

experience in a way that engages all five senses, without regard for the past or future. Their previous book,

2017’s Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life, has sold 50,000 print copies, per BookScan.