Hot This Week: August 16

There are plenty of great new titles your patrons will be looking for this week. Three new movies include Luca, the latest animated hit from Disney-Pixar. Billie Eilish tops this week's music chart, which also welcomes posthumous releases from Prince and Pop Smoke (now available on CD after a digital release in July). The latest novel from Stephen King wins the week in fiction, with the buzzworthy debut novel from Tracey Lange making it as well. In nonfiction, new titles from Alexander Vindman and Rebecca Donner join the list.

Movies

1. A Quiet Place Part II (Blu-ray | 4K)
2. Those Who Wish Me Dead (Blu-ray)
   
3. Wrath of Man (Blu-ray)
4. Spiral (Blu-ray | 4K)
   
5. Midnight in the Switchgrass (Blu-ray)
   
6. Mortal Kombat (Blu-ray | 4K)
7. Here Today (Blu-ray)
   
8. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run (Blu-ray)
   
9. Nobody (Blu-ray | 4K)
10. Luca (Blu-ray | 4K)
    

Music

1. Billie Eilish, Happier Than Ever
   
2. Olivia Rodrigo, Sour
   
3. Prince, Welcome 2 America
   
4. Morgan Wallen, Dangerous: The Double Album
   
5. Dua Lipa, Future Nostalgia
   
6. Pop Smoke, Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon
7. Pop Smoke, Faith
8. Luke Combs, What You See Is What You Get
9. The Weeknd, After Hours
10. Lil Baby, My Turn
    

Fiction

1. Billy Summers, Stephen King
   
2. The Last Thing He Told Me, Laura Dave
3. The Paper Palace, Miranda Cowley Heller
4. Not a Happy Family, Shari Lapena
5. The Midnight Library, Matt Haig
6. Malibu Rising, Taylor Jenkins Reid
7. The Cellist, Daniel Silva
   
8. Black Ice, Brad Thor
9. We Are the Brennans, Tracey Lange
   
10. The President's Daughter, Bill Clinton and James Patterson

Nonfiction

1. American Marxism, Mark R. Levin
2. Here, Right Matters, Alexander Vindman
   
3. The Authoritarian Moment, Ben Shapiro
4. How I Saved the World, Jesse Watters
5. Greenlights, Matthew McConaughey
6. Killing the Mob, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
7. What Happened to You?, Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey
8. Untamed, Glennon Doyle
9. Caste, Isabel Wilkerson
10. All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days, Rebecca Donner