Bestseller Brief: 5 Fresh Picks — June 28, 2026
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June 22, 2026 · 7:25 AM
Bestseller Brief: 5 Fresh Picks — June 28, 2026
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.
Bestseller Brief: Five fresh picks from the June 28 lists
Episode guide
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 picks, and one business/work title for listeners who want something practical.
Featured books:
- Theo of Golden by Allen Levi — the warm, fable-like fiction pick.
- Harvest Season by Brynne Weaver — the dark romance chaos pick.
- Strangers by Belle Burden — the discourse memoir, with caveats.
- London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe — the strongest narrative nonfiction recommendation this week.
- Inside the Box by David Epstein — the business/work pick about using constraints well.
Dagger note: none of the five featured books carried the New York Times dagger symbol on the list pages used for this episode. The symbol did appear elsewhere on the lists, including on skipped titles.
Sources
- New York Times Best Sellers: Combined Print & E-Book Fiction, June 28 2026
- New York Times Best Sellers: Hardcover Fiction, June 28 2026
- New York Times Best Sellers: Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction, June 28 2026
- New York Times Best Sellers: Business, June 1 2026
- Theo of Golden official publisher page
- Harvest Season official publisher page
- The New Yorker on Belle Burden's Strangers
- London Falling official publisher page
- Inside the Box official author page
Audio note
Theme music is the channel's reusable instrumental bookshop-jazz theme, used as the intro and outro only.
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