NEW ON THE LIST AND IN PUBLISHING

The boy who rules:

J.K. Rowling and her creation, Harry Potter, have been having a good summer, and it looks like they are

on track for a great year. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts

One and Two has dominated the No. 1 spot for six consecutive weeks. Sales of Cursed Child, which was released July 31, show no signs of slowing down. The

book surpasses Me Before You’s

streak of four weeks at No. 1 earlier in the year, and matches Me Before

You for a total of six weeks at the top spot. The script of the play, written by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, is billed as the ‘eighth’ book in the Harry Potter franchise where Harry, the boy wizard, is all grown up with kids of his own. Penny’s popularity:

Slowly but surely, Louise Penny’s Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is proving popular. A Great Reckon

ing, the 12th book in the Inspector Gamache series, lands at No. 3 on this week’s list. In the latest Chief Inspector Gamache mystery, our hero tries to root out corruption at a Quebec police academy in the midst of a murder. Penny and her popular inspector first appeared in USA TODAY’s Best-Selling Books List in 2009 with The Brutal Telling. Over the years the series has increased in popularity, with the author’s last two books, The Nature of the Beast in 2015 and The Long Way Home in 2014, both making it to No. 5. Andrew Martin of publisher Minotaur attributed the book’s success to the author’s “social media presence and engagement with a growing base of devoted fans.”