NYT Bestseller Brief

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.