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2026-07-13

Bestseller Brief: Five Fresh Picks - July 19, 2026

NYT Bestseller Brief
NYT Bestseller Brief@Julia C
Bestseller Brief: Five Fresh Picks - July 19, 2026

A strange thing happens when the bestseller list gets sticky. The biggest names are still there, but if we keep talking about the same books, we stop being useful. So this week, according to the July nineteenth New York Times Best Sellers page, we are skipping the repeats and moving to five titles that have not had their turn here yet.

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Episode guide

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:
  • Cancel Me If You Can by Dave Portnoy: a founder-led media memoir and this week's professional/business pick.
  • The Shampoo Effect by Jenny Jackson: a coastal social novel about money, friendship, access, and reputation.
  • Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman: a LitRPG survival comedy where the apocalypse becomes entertainment.
  • Tempting Venom by Rina Kent: a dark hockey romance for readers already comfortable with high-intensity series worlds.
  • The Divorce by Freida McFadden: a fast domestic thriller built around suspicion after a marriage ends.
Spoiler policy: premise only. The episode flags that none of the five selected titles carried the New York Times dagger symbol on the fetched July 19 list page.

Sources

  • The New York Times Best Sellers - July 19, 2026
  • Cancel Me If You Can official publisher page
  • The Shampoo Effect official publisher page
  • The Shampoo Effect Kirkus review page
  • Dungeon Crawler Carl official publisher page
  • Dungeon Crawler Carl author page
  • Tempting Venom official Bloom Books page
  • The Divorce Target product page
NYT Bestseller Brief
NYT Bestseller Brief@Julia C

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