The top pick of the month comes from Kristin Hannah, author of the ever-popular The Nightingale. Hannah s newest novel, The Four Winds, vividly and poignantly details the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression. February s featured debut Cherie Jones How The One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House is what Vanessa Cronin describes as a can t-look-away winner due to its lively and beautiful critique on the patriarchy, class, and race.
Here are Amazon s top 12 books of February 2021:
Captions have been provided by Amazon s book editors. The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
USA TODAY
If you have been conscious for the last year, chances are you are experiencing more negative chatter in your head than ever. And if you are like most Americans, that negative chatter often spins out of control. It is that constant negative self-talk that experimental psychologist and neuroscientist Ethan Kross addresses in his new book, “Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It” (Crown, 272 pp., ★★★½ out of four.)
Kross, who studies the science of introspection at the Emotion and Self Control Laboratory, a lab he founded and directs at the University of Michigan, began work on Chatter several years ago, but its publication could not have come at a better time.
Why your most important relationship is with your inner voice Rachel Cooke
As Ethan Kross, an American experimental psychologist and neuroscientist, will cheerfully testify, the person who doesn’t sometimes find themselves listening to an unhelpful voice in their head probably doesn’t exist. Ten years ago, Kross found himself sitting up late at night with a baseball bat in his hand, waiting for an imaginary assailant he was convinced was about to break into his house – a figure conjured by his frantic mind after he received a threatening letter from a stranger who’d seen him on TV. Kross, whose area of research is the science of introspection, knew that he was overreacting; that he had fallen victim to what he calls “chatter”. But telling himself this did no good at all. At the peak of his anxiety, his negative thoughts running wildly on a loop, he found himself, somewhat comically, Googling “bodyguards for academics”.