Author John Green returns to BookCon
Here's a look at what's new on USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list and in publishing....
Green day: Last year, John Green attracted nearly 2,000 screaming young fans to the first-ever BookCon while promoting the movie adaptation of his best-selling teen novel The Fault in Our Stars. It's likely to be déjà vu all over again at BookCon this year when Green shows up for a May 30 panel in New York to share clips from the movie version of his young-adult book Paper Towns.
The film opens July 24 and stars Nat Wolff and Cara Delevingne. Paper Towns is No. 10 on USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list and has spent 65 weeks on the list. (The full list will publish on Thursday.) It's the story of Quentin, who with some pals searches for his neighbor Margo, who's left behind a trail of clues. A movie tie-in paperback of Green's 2008 title is due on May 19 from Penguin. BookCon is open to the ticket-buying public.
'Boys' for boys:The Boys in the Boat, Daniel James Brown's inspirational non-fiction account of America's young crew team during the 1936 Olympics, is the sleeper hit that's been compared to Laura Hillenbrand's No. 1 best seller Unbroken. Now Boys, currently No. 25 on the list, is following Unbroken by spinning off a version for young readers. An edition of Boys for readers 10 and up will be published by Viking on Sept. 8. Unbroken: The Young Adult Adaptation (which tells the story of World War II POW Louis Zamperini) was published for the holiday season last year and made USA TODAY's Top 50. The Boys in the Boat has spent 49 weeks on the list and has been as high as No. 16.
Times two: Chiquis Rivera has not one but two best sellers with her memoir Forgiveness (Atria). That's because both the English version (No. 32) and Spanish version, called Perdon (No. 35), land in USA TODAY's Top 50 this week. Rivera is the daughter of singer Jenni Rivera, who died in a plane crash in Mexico in December 2012. Mother-daughter had always been close, but in her book, Chiquis reveals the rift that caused them not to speak the final two months of her mother's life. She also discusses being sexually abused as a child. Chiquis, 29, has been promoting her book on both English and Spanish TV, including an appearance on the Today show.