Snoozecast
776 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 758 ratingsSnoozecast is the podcast designed to help you fall asleep.
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Heidi pt. 4
January 15, 2020 06:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, by listener request, we’ll read the next section of the classic children’s story "Heidi", published in 1881 by Swiss author Johanna Spyri. To unlock full episodes and ad-free listening of this series and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus. It is a novel about the life of a young girl in her grandfather's care in the Swiss Alps. "Heidi" is one of the best-selling books ever wr...
The Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor
January 13, 2020 06:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read the opening stories of "Sinbad the Sailor and His Seven Voyages", taken from "The Arabian Nights", edited by Andrew Lang and published in 1898. Sinbad is a fictional mariner and the hero of a story-cycle of Middle Eastern origin. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus. He is described as hailing from Baghdad during the 9t...
Ventriloquism and Polyphony
January 10, 2020 06:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read a chapter from "Three Hundred Things a Bright Boy Can Do", titled "Ventriloquism and Polyphony", written by “Many Hands” and published in 1914. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus. Ventriloquy, an act of stagecraft in which a person changes their voice so that it appears that the voice is coming from elsewhere, usually...
The Princess of Babylon
January 06, 2020 06:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read the story "The Princess of Babylon", taken from "The Strange Storybook" by Mrs. Lang, published in 1913. The story is taken from a lesser known philosophical tale by Voltaire, written in 1768. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus. The story focuses on Amazan, a handsome, unknown shepherd, and Formosanta, the Princess of...
Mazes and Labyrinths
January 03, 2020 06:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read the opening chapters to "Mazes and Labyrinths: A General Account of their History and Development", written by W. H. Matthews and published in 1922. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus. The history of the maze is paradoxically explored as both a tool for spiritual inquiry and as a vexing trap. Apparently he wrote the h...
Little Women ch. 3 "The Laurence Boy"
January 01, 2020 06:00 - 37 minutesTonight, we’ll read the third chapter of “Little Women”, by American author Louisa May Alcott, published in 1868, titled “The Laurence Boy”. Following the lives of the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy—the novel details their passage from childhood to womanhood and is loosely based on the author and her sisters. In the previous chapter, on Christmas morning, the girls wake to find books under their pillows. They find their mother has gone to aid poor neighbors. When she returns, she a...
Sleeping Beauty
December 30, 2019 06:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read the story of "Sleeping Beauty", from the Lang’s "Blue Fairy Book" published in 1889. It is a classic fairy talea bout a princess who is cursed to sleep for a hundred years by an evil fairy, where she would be awakened by a handsome prince. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus. The earliest known version of the story is ...
Watching Birds at a Straw Stack | Bird Watching
December 27, 2019 06:00 - 30 minutesTonight, we’ll read another chapter from the book "Bird Watching" published in 1901 by Edmund Selous, titled "Watching Birds at a Straw Stack". The author started as a conventional naturalist, but Selous developed a hatred of the common practice at the time of killing animals for scientific study and was a pioneer of bird-watching as a method of scientific study. The author was a solitary man and was not well known in ornithological circles. He avoided both the company of ornithologists a...
Watching Birds at a Straw Stack | Birdwatching
December 27, 2019 06:00 - 30 minutesTonight, we’ll read another chapter from the book "Bird Watching" published in 1901 by Edmund Selous, titled "Watching Birds at a Straw Stack". The author started as a conventional naturalist, but Selous developed a hatred of the common practice at the time of killing animals for scientific study and was a pioneer of bird-watching as a method of scientific study. The author was a solitary man and was not well known in ornithological circles. He avoided both the company of ornithologists a...
Little Women ch. 2 "A Merry Christmas"
December 25, 2019 06:00 - 38 minutesTonight, we’ll read the second chapter titled “A Merry Christmas” to “Little Women” by American author Louisa May Alcott, published in 1868. Following the lives of the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy—the novel details their passage from childhood to womanhood and is loosely based on the author and her sisters. In Chapter 1, the March sisters lament that they won’t receive Christmas presents as their family has fallen into poverty. They discuss a Christmas play they are going to pu...
Little Women II | A Merry Christmas
December 25, 2019 06:00 - 37 minutes - 25.9 MBTonight, we’ll read the second chapter titled “A Merry Christmas” to “Little Women” by American author Louisa May Alcott, published in 1868. Following the lives of the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy—the novel details their passage from childhood to womanhood and is loosely based on the author and her sisters.In Chapter 1, the March sisters lament that they won’t receive Christmas presents as their family has fallen into poverty. They discuss a Christmas play they are going to put f...
Alpine Resort
December 20, 2019 06:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read an excerpt about traveling to a high alpine winter resort, from a book called Winter Sports in Switzerland, written by E. F. Benson in 1913. Benson was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus. — read by 'V' — Learn more about your ad choices...
Little Women ch. 1 "Playing Pilgrims"
December 18, 2019 06:00 - 40 minutesTonight, we’ll read the opening chapter to “Little Women” by American author Louisa May Alcott, published in 1868. Following the lives of the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy—the novel details their passage from childhood to womanhood and is loosely based on the author and her sisters. Alcott wrote the books over several months at the request of her publisher. She later recalled that she did not think she could write a successful book for girls and did not enjoy writing it. "I plod a...
Little Women I
December 18, 2019 06:00 - 39 minutes - 27 MBTonight, we’ll read the opening chapter to “Little Women” by American author Louisa May Alcott, published in 1868. Following the lives of the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy—the novel details their passage from childhood to womanhood and is loosely based on the author and her sisters.Alcott wrote the books over several months at the request of her publisher. She later recalled that she did not think she could write a successful book for girls and did not enjoy writing it. "I plod aw...
The Blue Parrot
December 16, 2019 06:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read a story called "The Blue Parrot", taken from The Olive Fairy Book by Andrew Lang and H. J. Ford, and published in 1907. The story originated from a French book of tales titled Contes de Fée from the late 1700s. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus. — read by 'M' — Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/ad...
Afloat and Ashore
December 13, 2019 06:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read the opening to "Afloat and Ashore" a nautical fiction novel by James Fenimore Cooper, published in 1844. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus. Set at the turn of the 19th century, the novel follows the maritime adventures of Miles Wallingford Jr., the son of wealthy New York landowners who chooses to go to sea after the...
The Woman in White
December 11, 2019 06:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, by listener request, we’ll read the opening to "The Woman in White", written in 1859 by Wilkie Collins. It is considered to be among the first mystery novels, and an early example of detective fiction. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus. Modern critics and readers regard it as Collins's best novel, although at the time of public...
Beauty and the Beast pt. 2
December 09, 2019 06:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read the second and final part to the classic tale "Beauty and the Beast", taken from the Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, published in 1889. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus. When we left off, the merchant and father to Beauty was caught picking a rose from the Beast’s garden as a gift to Beauty. In punishment, the Beast...
Sunday Dinner
December 06, 2019 06:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we bring you “Sunday Dinner” a Snoozecast Original. In this story, experience visiting an old friend’s cozy farm home and the comforting meal prepared and enjoyed inside. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus. — read by 'V' — Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Pride and Prejudice pt. 3
December 04, 2019 06:00 - 32 minutesTonight, by listener request, we’ll read the third part to the 1813 romantic novel of manners "Pride and Prejudice", written by Jane Austen. The novel follows Elizabeth Bennet, the dynamic protagonist, who learns about the repercussions of hasty judgments and eventually comes to appreciate the difference between superficial goodness and actual goodness. In the last episode, discussion of the ball continues when the daughters of the Bennets' neighbor visit. The oldest daughter, Charlotte, is...
Doctor Dolittle
December 02, 2019 06:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read the opening chapters to "Doctor Dolittle", written in 1920 by British author Hugh Lofting. The full title being, “The Story of Doctor Dolittle, Being the History of His Peculiar Life at Home and Astonishing Adventures in Foreign Parts”. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus. It is the first of Lofting’s "Doctor Dolittle"...
Winter Voices
November 29, 2019 22:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read another excerpt from “In New England Fields and Woods” written by Rowland Evans Robinson in 1896. Robinson was in his time one of Vermont’s best known writers. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus. This collection of short essays follows New England's changing seasons and moods in all its natural beauty. This particular...
Thanksgiving Recipes
November 27, 2019 19:00 - 32 minutesTonight, we’ll read Thanksgiving recipes and sample menus from a magazine called "American Cookery", published in 1921. This periodical was formerly titled less succinctly “The Boston Cooking-School Magazine of Culinary Science and Domestic Economics. — read by 'V' — Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Peter Rabbit
November 25, 2019 10:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read, "Tales of Peter Rabbit and Friends", from "The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter", written by Beatrix Potter. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus. "The Tales of Peter Rabbit" was first self-published in 1902, when she was in her thirties. Potter was an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservatio...
Sea and Sardinia
November 22, 2019 06:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight we’ll read the opening to “Sea and Sardinia”, a travel book by the English writer D. H. Lawrence. It describes a brief excursion undertaken in January 1921 by Lawrence and his wife from Sicily to the interior of Sardinia. Despite the brevity of his visit, Lawrence distills an essence of the island and its people that is still recognizable today. To unlock full episodes, ad-free lis...
Black Beauty pt. 2
November 20, 2019 13:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, by listener request, we’ll read the second part to 1877’s "Black Beauty" by Anna Sewall. This novel became an immediate best-seller at the end of Sewall’s life, but she lived long enough to briefly see her only novel would become.Black Beauty is one of the best-selling books of all time. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus. — rea...
Robin Hood
November 18, 2019 06:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, by listener request, we’ll read the opening to the 1883 novel by American illustrator and writer Howard Pyle, "Robin Hood". Consisting of a series of episodes in the story of the English outlaw Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men, the novel helped solidify the image of a heroic Robin Hood, which had begun in earlier works such as Walter Scott's 1819 novel "Ivanhoe". To unlock ful...
Myths of the Cherokee
November 15, 2019 06:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read some of the folklore of the Cherokee people from the 1900 book "Myths of the Cherokee" by James Mooney. Mooney was an American ethnographer who lived for several years with the Cherokee. He became a self-taught expert on American tribes by his own studies and his careful observation during long residences with different groups. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening...
A Tale of Two Cities
November 13, 2019 06:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read the opening two chapters of 1859’s "A Tale of Two Cities", written by Charles Dickens. It is a historical novel, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in Paris and his re...
The Magic Cloak
November 11, 2019 06:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read "Queen Zixi of Ix", or "The Story of the Magic Cloak", a children's book written by L. Frank Baum and published in 1905. The events of the book alternate between Noland and Ix, two neighboring regions to the Land of Oz, and Baum himself commented this was the best book he had written. To unlock full episodes and ad-free listening of this series and more, please go to sn...
Moon Shot
November 08, 2019 06:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we'll read a couple famous speeches by President John F. Kennedy: His 1961 inauguration speech and his 1962 moon speech. The youngest president elected in United States history, he was the first man born in the 20th century to hold that office. His speeches inspired the nation to reach for the stars. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com...
Cowboy Smith
November 06, 2019 14:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we'll read the opening to the 1911 novel titled “Me-Smith” written by Caroline Lockhart. Lockhart was a journalist, a newspaper owner, and a ranch owner along with writing novels set in her adopted home of Cody, Montana. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus. The Caroline Lockhart Ranch is listed on the National Register of Histori...
Beauty and the Beast
November 04, 2019 06:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read the classic tale "Beauty and the Beast", taken from the Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, published in 1889. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus. The original story of Beauty and the Beast was written by Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve, within the culture of the aristocratic salons of the 1700s. It is thought that it has...
Mushrooms in the Paris Caves
November 01, 2019 05:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read a section of the book “Mushrooms: How to Grow Them” called “Mushroom Growing in the Paris Caves”, written by William Falconer and published in 1892. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus. The famous architecture of Paris was built using the limestone extracted from underneath the city. The resulting catacombs were also u...
The Dunwich Horror
October 30, 2019 05:00 - 25 minutesTonight, as the final episode of our October classic horror series, we’ll be reading the opening to "The Dunwich Horror", written in 1928 by H.P. Lovecraft. It takes place in Dunwich, a fictional town in central Massachusetts. It is considered one of the core stories of the Cthulhu Mythos. — read by 'N' — Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Heidi pt. 3
October 28, 2019 05:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, by listener request, we’ll read the next section of the classic children’s story "Heidi", published in 1881 by Swiss author Johanna Spyri. To unlock full episodes and ad-free listening of this series and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus. It is a novel about the life of a young girl in her grandfather's care in the Swiss Alps. Heidi is one of the best-selling books ever writ...
A Crystal Age
October 25, 2019 05:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read the opening to 1887’s "A Crystal Age by W. H. Hudson. The book, a pastoral Utopian novel has been called a "significant sci-fi milestone" and has been noted for its anticipation of the "modern ecological mysticism" that would evolve a century later. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus. — read by 'N' — Learn more about...
The Turn of the Screw
October 23, 2019 05:00 - 31 minutesTonight, as part of our October classic horror series, we'll read the opening to The "Turn of the Screw", an 1898 Gothic ghost story by Henry James. The novella focuses on a governess who, caring for two children at a remote estate, becomes convinced that the grounds are haunted. Some critics have argued that the brilliance of "The Turn of the Screw" results from its ability to create an intimate sense of confusion and suspense within the reader. — read by 'V' — Learn more about your ad ...
Pride and Prejudice pt. 2
October 21, 2019 05:00 - 32 minutesTonight, by listener request, we’ll read the second part to the 1813 romantic novel of manners "Pride and Prejudice", written by Jane Austen. The novel follows Elizabeth Bennet, the dynamic protagonist, who learns about the repercussions of hasty judgments and eventually comes to appreciate the difference between superficial goodness and actual goodness. In the first episode, news that a wealthy young gentleman named Charles Bingley has moved in nearby causes a stir among the Bennet family....
Get This Bread
October 18, 2019 11:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’re bringing you a Snoozecast original titled “Get This Bread”. In this soft-boiled who-dun-it, a rising star editor is suddenly fired, leaving a pair of co-workers to pick up the pieces — and the clues — to solving the mystery. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus. — read by 'M' — Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaph...
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
October 16, 2019 05:00 - 33 minutesTonight, as part of our October classic horror series, we’ll read the opening to "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", a Gothic novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1886. It is about a London legal practitioner named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll, and the evil Edward Hyde. The novella's impact is such that it has become a part of the language, with the phrase "Jekyll and Hyde" ente...
The Count of Monte Cristo
October 14, 2019 05:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we'll read the opening chapter to "The Count of Monte Cristo", completed in 1844 by French author Alexander Dumas. Considered a literary classic today, the story takes place in France, Italy, and islands in the Mediterranean during the historical events of 1815–1839: the era of the Bourbon Restoration through the reign of Louis-Philippe of France. To unlock full episodes, ad-free ...
The Princess
October 11, 2019 05:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read the opening to Lord Tennyson’s 1847 "The Princess". Tennyson was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1850 to 1892 and remains one of the most popular English poets. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus. The poem tells the story of a heroic princess who forswears the world of men and founds a women's university wher...
Frankenstein
October 09, 2019 05:00 - 29 minutesTonight, as part of our October classic horror series (every Wednesday this month), we'll read the opening to "Frankenstein, or, the Modern Prometheus", written by Mary Shelley and published anonymously in 1818 when she was just 20 years old. It tells the story of a scientist named Victor Frankenstein who creates a hideous humanoid creature. Since the novel's publication, the name "Frankenstein" has often been used to refer to the monster itself, although in the novel the monster is never g...
The Adventures of a Spanish Nun
October 07, 2019 05:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we'll be reading a story called "The Adventures of a Spanish Nun" from the "Strange Storybook" by Mrs. Andrew Lang — Leonora Blanche Alleyne, published in 1913. This story tells of a young woman who had been raised in a convent but had dreams of exploring the world. She then acts upon them, dressed as men, and full of exploits and daring. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening...
A Voyage in the Dark
October 04, 2019 05:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read, "A Voyage in the Dark" an excerpt from “In New England Fields and Woods” written by Rowland Evans Robinson in 1896. Robinson was in his time one of Vermont’s best known writers. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus. This collection of short essays follows New England's changing seasons and moods in all its natural beau...
The Fall of the House of Usher
October 02, 2019 05:00 - 32 minutesTonight, as part of our October classic horror series (every Wednesday this month), we’ll read the opening to "The Fall of the House of Usher", written by Edgar Allen Poe and published in 1839. This short story is a work of Gothic fiction and includes themes of madness, family, isolation, and metaphysical identities. Poe's inspiration for the story may be based upon events of the Hezekiah Usher House, located near what is now Downtown Crossing in Boston, Mass. When the Usher House was torn ...
Aladdin pt. 2
September 30, 2019 05:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read the second part to "Aladdin", our version is out of the Blue Fairy Book, edited by Andrew Lang in 1889. Aladdin is a middle eastern folk tale and is one of the tales from the Book of One Thousand and One Nights otherwise known as The Arabian Nights. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus. In Part One, Aladdin is a lazy bo...
Tao Te Ching
September 27, 2019 05:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we'll read from the "Tao Te Ching". This Chinese classic text is traditionally credited to the 6th-century BC sage Laozi. The text's authorship, date of composition and date of compilation are debated. The "Tao Te Ching" has multiple translations, in general "Tao" means "the way" or "the path", here's some examples of different opening lines: "The Tao that can be trodden is not ...
Black Beauty
September 25, 2019 05:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we'll read the opening to the 1877 novel, "Black Beauty" by English author Anna Sewell. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus. Due to a severe injury early in life, Sewell needed to use crutches to walk and developed a love for horses, as horseback riding gave her a sense of freedom.This novel became an immediate best-seller at the...