Fury Road meets The Force Awakens . . . a much-needed origin story for one of the new Star Wars saga’s most mysterious characters.”—The Verge
“Dark, gripping, and entertaining.”—Roqoo Depot
“Fabulous, utterly engrossing.”—Kirkus Reviews
At the end of each month, we share lists of B&N’s current bestsellers in the genre, from new hardbacks, to trade paperbacks, to mass markets and media tie-ins, to graphic novels and manga. These are the books everyone is talking about—and buying. Hardcovers What books did you buy in June?
Few books have fulfilled the promise of their title as quickly as Kill the Farm Boy, which sees its erstwhile corn-pone protagonist squashed to death on page 31. With the body of Worstley, a farm boy turned, supposedly, Chosen One, still warm at the foot of an enchanted tower, a zany assemblage of characters takes […]
Reverence is 99 percent understanding and one percent irreverence. I might have just made up that axiom, but I stand by the math nonetheless. Regardless, few things are more enjoyable than a sci-fi or fantasy spoof that so perfectly skewers the genre it mimics that it threatens to become a genre classic in its own […]
In the original trilogy especially, we always know who we’re rooting for—Han Solo might start out ethically ambiguous, but he always does the right thing in the end. The expanded universe novels, on the other hand, frequently bring more shading to the Dark Side. James Luceno’s Darth Plagueis brings new complexity to Emperor Palpatine’s scheming; Grand Admiral […]
At the end of each month, we share lists of B&N’s current bestsellers in the genre, from new hardbacks, to trade paperbacks, to mass markets and media tie-ins, to graphic novels and manga. These are the books everyone is talking about—and buying. Hardcovers What books did you buy in May?