No big launch was quite big enough to overtake all those juicy tell-alls and incendiary polemics.
Then summer came around.
Since the beginning of June, the lists trend has essentially reversed, with the No.
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1Timesspot occupied by non-political books for all but two weeks.
The most recent list, dated for July 29, features just one political book in the top seven.
Thats a fairly dramatic shakeup from where we were three months ago.
Ingrid Christie
How did publishings unrelenting political heat wave finally cool off?
Thats a real trend in whats working right now.
And it was overshadowed by early 2018s successive line of far splashier memoirs coming out of Washington.
Maybe readers are looking for something more constructive.
That these two books read so intimately speaks volumes.
Anger, for some, has turned to longing; meaning provides one cure for despair.
Theres been a subtle turn in the national mood, and its being reflected in our collective book-buying habits.
Bookstores sold out ofKitchen Confidentialas demand skyrocketed; Ecco, Bourdains publisher, began ordering large reprints immediately.
More than a month later, new readers are still discovering it, dedicatedly, in curiosity and affection.
Theres a sad beauty in that.
In the publishing world, spring may have been the season of Trump.
But this summer, its been about remembering who we really are.
