The Best Comics of the Year and the Century Altogether
Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Penguin Random House’s First Quarter Was Strong Can you guess the books that drove sales the most? Internationally, For the Fans! (KPop Demon Hunters) by Angela Song sold 1.6 million copies in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Germany, and Spain; while The Correspondent by Virginia Evans sold more than 1.5 million copies in the U.S., U.K., and Australia. Stateside, leading sales were populated by books that had been adapted, such as Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir and Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. Florence Pugh Is an Adaptation Darling Miss Mamas is everywhere collecting an adaptation coin—and I can’t say I’m mad. The only performance of hers I’ve seen that didn’t quite do it for me was her role in Marvel’s Black Widow, and that was because of that Temu Russian accent she did. I would absolutely watch these other things she’s starring in, though! There’s the adaptation of Matt Haig’s super bestselling The Midnight Library, which …
