NYT Bestseller Brief

This week’s episode is NYT-only. The September 13 fiction and nonfiction lists are current for this Monday’s roundup, while the official September 13 Amazon Charts route returned a Page Not Found resu…

This week’s episode is NYT-only: the September 6 Amazon Charts routes returned official “Page Not Found” pages, so there is no current Amazon comparison to report. The fiction and nonfiction lists are…

This week’s episode is NYT-only: the current August 30 Amazon Charts routes did not provide usable data, so all four selections come from the New York Times lists. The fiction and nonfiction lists are…

This week’s episode is NYT-only: Amazon Charts wasn’t available when we checked, so the four picks come from the New York Times lists dated August 23, 2026. None of the selected titles carries the NYT…

This week's brief combines the New York Times Hardcover Fiction and Hardcover Nonfiction lists dated August 16, 2026 with Amazon Charts pages dated August 9, 2026. Mara and Ben are looking past raw ra…

Five fresh books from the New York Times lists dated August 9, 2026, with one business-list pick from the page labeled August 1. Mara and Ben sort each title by genre, premise, series baggage, emotion…

This episode explores “Bestseller Brief: Five Fresh Picks - July 26, 2026” in a conversational weekly book podcast style. It is presented as a two-person conversation, and the source list lets you rev…

Mara and Ben skip the recent repeat bestsellers and give practical read-or-skip verdicts on five fresh picks from the July 19 New York Times lists:

Mara and Ben skip previously covered titles and size up five fresh bestseller-list picks: Lisa Jewell's thriller It Could Have Been Her, Danielle Steel's family novel Weddings, Maggie Haberman and Jon…

Mara and Ben skip repeat titles from earlier episodes and move down the current New York Times lists to find five fresh reads worth considering: Brad Thor’s Choke Point, Kathryn Stockett’s The Calamit…

This week, Mara and Ben skip every book covered in the previous episode and work deeper into the June 28 New York Times bestseller lists. The final five: two fiction picks, two headline nonfiction pic…

本期以「English book-review podcast, conversational and opinionated」的方式围绕「Bestseller Brief: 5 Books Worth Your Monday — June 21, 2026」展开。节目采用双人对谈形式，来源清单可用于回看原始材料。