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Dawnie Walton wins the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award for The Final Revival of Opal & Nev. The 2022 CWA Dagger Awards and the 2022 Eugie Foster Memorial Awards are announced. There are insightful author interviews with Paul Tremblay, Michael Bourne, Cheryl Head, Alice Elliott, Lidia Yuknavitch, Samantha Allen, Gretchen Felker-Martin, Meghan O'Rourke, Rumi Hara, Rina Ayunyang, Jason Starr, and Janelle Monáe.
Jesmyn Ward receives the 2022 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. The winners of the 2021 Ladies of Horror Fiction Awards are announced. The top best sellers are The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager, Escape by James Patterson and David Ellis, Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh, and An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong. There are author conversations with Tim Miller, Matthew Hild, Mat Johnson, Jamie Bartlett, Jenny Kleeman, and Austin Kleon. Plus, adaptations on the way for Paul Williams’s Only Apparently Real and Eight Billion Genies by Charles Soule and Ryan Browne.
More summer reading picks arrive. There are author interviews with Chelsea T. Hicks, Jenny Mollen, Ottessa Moshfegh, Michelle Huneven. Adaptation news is out for J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Fall of Númenor and the Archie comic Jake Chang. Plus, page to screen.
George Chauncey wins the John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity. Clare Jackson wins the 2022 Wolfson History Prize for Devil-Land: England Under Siege 1588-1688. The 2022 Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlist and the 2022 Ignotus Awards finalists are announced. At the top of the best sellers lists are The Hotel Nantucket by Elin Hilderbrand, Horse by Geraldine Brooks, Battle for the American Mind: Uprooting a Century of Miseducation by Pete Hegseth and David Goodwin, and I'd Like to Play Alone, Please by Tom Segura.
Ruth Ozeki wins the 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction for The Book of Form and Emptiness. Topping the best sellers lists are Tom Clancy: Zero Hour by Don Bentley, Chainsaw Man, Vol. 11 by Tatsuki Fukimoto, Counterfeit by Kirstin Chen, James Patterson by James Patterson by James Patterson, and Battling the Big Lie by Dan Pfeiffer. Interviews feature conversations with authors Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sloane Crosley, and LeVar Burton.
Award winners and finalists announced for the Lammy’s and Reading the West. There are many author interviews with Clyde W. Ford, Fariha Róisín, Anna Dorn, Vanessa Hua, Grant Ginder, Percival Everett, Nathan Chen, and Chris Blackwell. Also, adaptation news for Sekret Machines by Tom DeLonge and A. J. Hartley.
The 2022 Colorado Book Awards finalists and debut Utopia Awards nominees are announced. Topping the best seller lists are Sparring Partners by John Grisham, Meant to Be by Emily Giffin, Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris, and The Power of One More: The Ultimate Guide to Happiness and Success by Ed Mylett. There are author interviews with Cara Black, Tara Moss, Colton Haynes, and Werner Herzog. A new podcast, Screen After Reading, starts with a conversation about Sarah Vaughan’s Anatomy of a Scandal.
Sabba Khan wins the Jhalak prize for best book by a writer of color for The Roles We Play. Dan Breznitz wins the 2021 Donner Prize. The 2022 Indie Reader Discovery Award winners are announced. At the top of the best selling book lists are Nightwork by Nora Roberts, Clive Cussler's Dark Vector by Graham Brown, and Here's the Deal by Kellyanne Conway. Library Reads and LJ share read-alikes for John Grisham's Sparring Partners. There are author interviews with Holly Black, Colton Haynes, Casey McQuiston and Jessamine Chan. Plus, Judith Viorst’s Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day turns 50.
Joanna Chiu wins the 2022 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing for China Unbound: A New World Disorder. At the top of the best selling lists are In the Blood by Jack Carr, This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub, The Office BFFs: Tales of The Office from Two Best Friends Who Were There by Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey, and Phil: The Rip-Roaring (and Unauthorized!) Biography of Golf’s Most Colorful Superstar by Alan Shipnuck. Interviews feature authors Dov Forman, Robert Samuels, Toluse Olorunnipa, and Simon Parkin. Adaptation news for Oliver Sacks’s book Awakenings.
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