On July 3, 2020 Disney+ introduced a filmed version of a performance of the hit Broadway musical HAMILTON. It stars the show creator and title role originator Lin-Manuel Miranda. A week later the 2004 biography that inspired Ron Chernov's Alexander Hamilton sold 17K print copies and was just short of being a top ten seller.
For the time period January to June 2020 the #1 Print Best Seller was Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens. (Publishers Weekly July 20, 2020)
Austin Kleon just posted a helpful list for those of us having trouble reading during the pandemic.
Also from Crime Reads: Looking for a series to keep you occupied for a while? Check out The Binge Read: 10 Iconic Crime Fiction Series of the 70s. Only two women are mentioned by I can recommend both highly: Amanda Cross and P.D. James. On the other hand, when I was a prison librarian, the inmates were always requesting Donald Goines, which I dismissed as trash. Read the description in this article. It changed my mind.
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