A snapshot of popular books.

Fiction 1 MARTYR! (Vintage, $18). By Kaveh Akbar. A man tries to understand his tendency toward sadness and self-sabotage by writing a book about martyrs. 2 FUNNY STORY (Berkley, $19). By Emily ...

Reality’s quest is semi-successful: She dates Ariel for a year, despite a voice in the sky’s warning, in one of the book’s many experimental interludes, that he’s never really loved her.

The book, currently No. 3 on the Amazon bestsellers list, chronicles the six years Wynn-Williams spent in boardrooms and aboard private jets with top Meta executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg ...