NYT Bestseller Brief

Mara and Ben skip repeat bestsellers and size up five fresh picks from the July 26 New York Times lists, plus the July 1 Business list: The Exquisite Torment of Loving Your Enemy, Country People, Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt, On Courage, and The Simple Path to Wealth.

Mara and Ben skip repeat bestsellers and give spoiler-safe read-or-skip verdicts on five fresh July 19 NYT picks: Cancel Me If You Can, The Shampoo Effect, Dungeon Crawler Carl, Tempting Venom, and The Divorce.

Mara and Ben skip recent repeat bestsellers and give spoiler-safe read-or-skip verdicts on five fresh picks from the July 12 New York Times lists and the July 1 Business list: It Could Have Been Her, Weddings, Regime Change, Revolution, and The Freedom-Based Business Method.

Mara and Ben sort through the July 5 bestseller lists, skipping repeats and giving practical read-or-skip verdicts on five fresh picks across thrillers, historical fiction, sci-fi, memoir, and business.

This week, Mara and Ben skip previously covered titles and choose five fresh reads from the June 28 NYT lists: Theo of Golden, Harvest Season, Strangers, London Falling, and the business pick Inside the Box.

This week's NYT Best Sellers bring a lot: Ann Patchett's quiet, aching literary debut, a sharp time-travel satire, Jill Biden's White House memoir, Neil deGrasse Tyson on alien first contact, and David Sedaris doing what only David Sedaris can. We tell you who each book is for — and who can skip it.