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By The Associated Press
May 26, 2026 | 12:35 PM

Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List)

1. Ironwood by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown and Company)

2. The Deal by Elle Kennedy (Elle Kennedy Inc.)

3. The Mistake by Elle Kennedy (Elle Kennedy Inc.)

4. The Score by Elle Kennedy (Elle Kennedy Inc.)

5. Tom Clancy Rules of Engagement by Ward Larsen (Penguin Publishing Group)

6. The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett (Spiegel & Grau)

7. Yesteryear: A GMA Book Club Pick by Caro Claire Burke (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group)

8. Theo of Golden by Allen Levi (Atria Books)

9. The Fourth Option by Jack Carr (Atria/Emily Bestler Books)

10. Our Perfect Storm by Carley Fortune (Penguin Publishing Group)

Top Paid Audiobooks (US Bestseller List)

1. Yesteryear: A GMA Book Club Pick: A Novel (Unabridged) by Caro Claire Burke (Penguin Random House, LLC)

2. The Fourth Option (Unabridged) by Jack Carr (Simon & Schuster Digital Sales…)

3. The Deal (Unabridged) by Elle Kennedy (Audible)

4. Project Hail Mary (Unabridged) by Andy Weir (Audible)

5. The Boyfriend by Freida McFadden (Dreamscape Media)

6. Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage (Unabridged) by Belle Burden (Penguin Random House, LLC)

7. The Calamity Club: A Novel by Kathryn Stockett (INaudio, LLC)

8. Theo of Golden (Unabridged) by Allen Levi (Simon & Schuster Digital Sales…)

9. A Parade of Horribles: Dungeon Crawler Carl, Book 8 (Unabridged) by Matt Dinniman (Audible)

10. Ironwood by Michael Connelly (Hachette Audio)

Movie Review: ‘Backrooms’ goes from internet meme to the big screen

By The Associated Press
May 29, 2026 | 10:03 AM

What evil lurks in the drabbest of interiors? The meme-rooted “Backrooms” is the latest movie to pull its mounting horrors out of liminal spaces. “Exit 8,” released earlier this year, was set entirely in a subway corridor. In “Backrooms,” a struggling furniture salesperson discovers beneath his store an underground labyrinth, all lined with yellow wallpapered walls and fluorescent lighting. Where “Backrooms” came from is more interesting — and potentially meaningful — than the result. The movie, directed by 20-year-old YouTuber-turned-filmmaker Kane Parsons, is a fitfully unsettling nightmare that never convincingly builds beyond its creepy, dated-decor premise. But the “Backrooms” backstory is more intriguing. In 2019, an anonymous post on 4chan creepypasta — an online repository for internet-created urban legends — provided the initial image of the seemingly infinite Backrooms with a caption describing “nothing but the stink of old moist carpet, the madness of mono-yellow, the endless background noise of fluorescent lights at maximum hum-buzz.”

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