PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLERS
Publishers Weekly bestsellers for week ending July 9.
HARDCOVER FICTION
1. “Lore Olympus, Vol. 2” by Rachel Smythe (Random House Worlds)
2. “The Hotel Nantucket” by Elin Hilderbrand (Little, Brown)
3. “Rising Tiger” by Brad Thor (Atria/ Bestler)
4. “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin” by Eastman, Laird et al. (IDW)
5. “Sparring Partners” by John Grisham (Doubleday)
6. “Suspects” by Danielle Steel (Delacorte)
7. “Escape” by James Patterson (Doubleday)
8. “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow” by Gabrielle Zevin (Knopf)
9. “Lessons in Chemistry” by Bonnie Garmus (Doubleday)
10. “The Measure” by Nikki Erlick (William Morrow)
11. “The Hidden One” by Linda Castillo (Minotaur)
12. “The House Across the Lake” by Riley Sager (Dutton)
13. “Cold, Cold Bones” by Kathy Reichs (Scribner)
14. “Armored” by Mark Greaney (Berkley)
15. “The Paris Apartment” by Lucy Foley (William Morrow)
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. “Battle for the American Mind” by Pete Hegseth (Broadside)
2. “The Power of One More” by Ed Mylett (Wiley)
3. “How Are You, Really?” by Jenna Kutcher (Dey Street)
4. “Killing the Killers” by O’Reilly/ Dugard (St. Martin’s Press)
5. “Finding Me” by Viola Davis (HarperOne)
6. “Atlas of the Heart” by Brene Brown (Random House)
7. “Not My First Rodeo” by Kristi Noem (Twelve)
8. “Scars and Stripes” by Kennedy/ Palmisciano (Atria)
9. “James Patterson” by James Patterson (Little, Brown)
10. “Half Baked Harvest Every Day” by Tieghan Gerard (Clarkson Potter)
11. “An Immense World” by Ed Yong (Random House)
12. “Happy-Go-Lucky” by David Sedaris (Little, Brown)
13. “Invisible Storm” by Jason Kander (Mariner)
14. “Why We Did It” by Tim Miller (Harper)
15. “Jesus Listens” by Sarah Young (Thomas Nelson)
MASS MARKET PAPERBACK
1. “Where the Crawdads Sing” (media tie-in) by Delia Owens (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
2. “It’s Better This Way” by Debbie Macomber (Ballantine)
3. “Brannigan’s Land” by Johnstone/ Johnstone (Pinnacle)
4. “The Summer House” by Patterson/Dubois (Grand Central Publishing)
5. “Rich Dad Poor Dad” by Robert T. Kiyosaki (Plata)
6. “Hard Road to Vengeance” by Johnstone/Johnstone (Pinnacle)
7. “The Last Goodnight” by Kat Martin (Zebra)
8. “Undercover Assignment” by Dana Mentink (Love Inspired Suspense)
9. “The Return” by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing)
10. “Complications” by Danielle Steel (Dell)
11. “The Terminal List” by Jack Carr (Pocket)
12. “Summer Shadows” by Nora Roberts (St. Martin’s Press)
13. “No Way Out” by Fern Michaels (Zebra)
14. “The Guest List” by Lucy Foley (William Morrow)
15. “Her Forbidden Amish Child” by Leigh Bale (Love Inspired)
TRADE PAPERBACKS
1. “Verity” by Colleen Hoover (Grand Central Publishing)
2. “Reminders of Him” by Colleen Hoover (Montlake) appropriately adjusted for the needs of 21st-century citizens, can achieve similar results.
To make his case for the efficacy of progressive politics, however, Piketty ignores a sobering insight offered up in his “Capital in the Twenty-First Century.” In that work, Piketty argued that the 20th century’s social democratic triumph did not arise from the work of progressive movements alone. Equally important, and perhaps more so, was the destructive force of two global wars. “It was the chaos of war,” Piketty then wrote, “that reduced inequality in the twentieth century . ... It was war, and not harmonious democratic or economic rationality, that erased the past and enabled society to begin anew with a clean slate.”
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3. “Book Lovers” by Emily Henry (Berkley)
4. “My Hero Academia, Vol 31” by Kohei Horikoshi (Viz)
5. “Every Summer After” by Carley Fortune (Berkley)
6. “Lore Olympus, Vol 2” by Rachel Smythe (Random House Worlds)
7. “The Dead Romantics” by Ashley Poston (Berkley)
8. “Malibu Rising” by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Ballantine)
9. “Things We Never Got Over” by Lucy Score (Bloom)
10. “Where the Crawdads Sing” (media tie-in) by Delia Owens (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
11. “The Love Hypothesis” by Ali Hazelwood (Berkley)
12. “The Judge’s List” by John Grisham (Vintage)
13. “The Guest List” by Lucy Foley (William Morrow)
14. “Wish You Were Here” by Jodi Picoult (Ballantine)
15. “Jujutsu Kaisen, Vol. 16” by Gege Akutami (Viz)
World Wars to which Piketty refers killed nearly 100 million people, destroyed production facilities on an immense scale, stripped European powers of their income-generating colonies, and everywhere destabilized both the fortunes and the thinking of economic elites. The catastrophe of war, Piketty argued in his 2013 work, gave social democracy its chance to triumph in the West.
Hence a key question for Piketty’s 2022 book: Can reducing inequality in the 21st-century world on the same scale as in the 20thcentury West be accomplished without another large war, or a pandemic far more destructive than the one we are living through, or a climate catastrophe of the first order? One certainly wants to answer with Piketty that it can. He has
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