The #1 book in the country is
Just as I Am by Cicely Tyson, who died two days after its publication, at age 96. “In her spirited debut memoir,” our review said, “actor Tyson recalls her extraordinary life, as well as the racial and gender stereotyping, movie-business prejudice, and ill-behaved men that shaped her seven-decade career.” Several of her lauded performances originated in books, including her Oscar-nominated turn in 1972’s
Sounder, adapted from William H. Armstrong’s Newbery Medal winner, and her Emmy-winning starring role in
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, the 1974 TV movie adaptation of Ernest J. Gaines’s novel.