Excerpt from NY Times Bestseller List

for September 30, 2026



HARDCOVER NONFICTION

• I Was Right All Along, C. Ludden


• How Our Son Earned A PhD by age 18, Ludden & Ludden


• Handbag Hobags: Inside the Very Bradley Prostitution Scandal, A. Green


• 50+ and Still Getting Carded - The Beauty Guide, Green, Ludden & Partners Press

Back to the present:

I'm planning to take Sam to the Fly Creek Cider Mill sometime this fall. I told him about it tonight after booktime, and how they make apple juice and we could pick apples right from the trees. He added, "and peppers - we can pick the peppers, they are hanging on the trees! And I can eat them!"

He had peppers on his mind because I wore this necklace today - he calls the stone a pepper. He knows it's not really a pepper, but every time I wear it, he says, "That's a pepper. On your neck. I'm gonna eat it!" and he moves in and pretends to eat it.