The article was licenced from another company and nobody at the Chicago Sun-Times or at King Features that "wrote" the article did not even bother to check whether the books actually existed. The entire article was generated by AI.
You would expect that when a respectable newspaper publishes a list of books they would read, or at very least have a look at the books they are writing about.
https://www.404media.co/viral-ai-gen...-giant-hearst/
https://chicago.suntimes.com/press-r...pecial-section