This week, USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list has iola Davis' unvarnished and touching memoir "Finding Me" (HarperOne, 304 pages).The first Black woman to win the acting triple crown, the Oscar, Emmy, and Tony award-winning actress reveals her personal tale of overcoming poverty and dysfunction in her childhood to become one of her generation's most recognized artists.The actress, who is now considered Hollywood royalty, tells her story without holding back. "From the opening page, it's evident Davis is going to serve a more intimate, unpolished account than is typical of the normal (sometimes ghost-written) celebrity memoir; 'Finding Me' reads like Davis is setting you down for a one-on-one talk about her life, warts and all," according to USA TODAY.
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"Finding Me" had a huge impression on Oprah Winfrey, who chose the memoir for her book club. "I felt this was a book I wanted to share with the world when I completed reading the first paragraph," Winfrey said in a statement. "I am in amazement of Viola's ability to not only survive but also to become a world role model as a recognized actress, mother, wife, and the lady she is today.""The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor – The Truth and the Turmoil," by Tina Brown (Crown, 592 pages.), premieres at No. 3 this week. In her latest book, the author of the USA TODAY best seller "The Diana Chronicles," focuses primarily on the women of the House of Windsor, but she still has a lot to say about the men in their lives.
Brown discusses the royals who have shaped the modern monarchy – Charles, Diana, Camilla, William and Harry, Kate and Meghan, Andrew, Philip, and Margaret – and what their recent wobbles signify for the monarchy's stability and survival. "Above all," Brown says in her prologue, "I hope we can get closer to knowing the lady who matters more than anybody else: the Queen."
Brown offers juicy details on Prince Harry's rage issues, Meghan Markle's "scattered, discordant, and mutually hostile" family, Kate's "long game," and Prince Andrew's sleaze machine image.At No. 11, Don Winslow's modern "Iliad," "City on Fire" (William Morrow, 384 pages.), performs admirably. Winslow has appeared on numerous best-seller lists, including: This is his sixth novel to be included on the USA TODAY list, and his highest debut at No. 11. During the 1980s and 1990s, a beautiful woman sparks a fight between two criminal empires that ruled New England. "You wouldn't want to spend time with these criminals in real life, but they're top-notch company on the page," according to USA TODAY's 12 (out of four) star rating.Thanks to Hulu's limited series of the same name, Jon Krakauer's true crime classic "Under the Banner of Heaven" (Anchor, 432 pp.) about the 1984 double murder of a Mormon wife Brenda Lafferty and her baby has returned to the best sellers list this week. Andrew Garfield as Jeb Pyre and Gil Birmingham as Bill Taba, the cops investigating the terrible killings, star in the series, which premiered on April 28. Thursdays include new episodes.
This week, the book is ranked No. 78. It spent 30 weeks in the top 150 in 2003, when it was first issued. "Into the Wild," "Into Thin Air," "Where Men Win Glory," and "Missoula" are just a few of Krakauer's best-selling works.
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