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Awards & Book News

The finalists for the Lambda Literary Awards are announced; Reactor has coverage.

The shortlist for the Women’s Prize for Nonfiction is announced, The Guardian reports. The Bookseller also has coverage, as does Publishing Perspectives.

Fantasy author James A. Moore has died at age 58; Locus has an obituary.

Kate Banks, “children’s author who wrote about grief,” has died at 64; NYT has an obituary.

Publishing Perspectives shares new data from BookNet on Canadian book buying in 2023.

New Title Bestsellers

Links for the week: NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers | NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers | USA Today Bestselling Books

Fiction

The #1 Lawyer by James Patterson & Nancy Allen (Little, Brown) hits No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers List and No. 8 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

James by Percival Everett (Doubleday; LJ starred review) achieves No. 4 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers List and No. 7 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Spy x Family, Vol. 11 by Tatsuya Endo sneaks to No. 5 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle (Atria) is freshly arrived at No. 8 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers List.

Nonfiction

Get It Together: Troubling Tales from the Liberal Fringe by Jesse Watters reaches No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers List and No. 4 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list, though some booksellers report receiving bulk orders.

Barbie: The World Tour by Margot Robbie and Andrew Mukamal (Rizzoli) travels to No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers List, though some booksellers report receiving bulk orders.

Ghost Town Living: Mining for Purpose and Chasing Dreams at the Edge of Death Valley by Brent Underwood (Harmony) arrives at No. 11 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers List, though some booksellers report receiving bulk orders.

Life: My Story Through History by Pope Francis (HarperOne) gains No. 12 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers List.

One Way Back: A Memoir by Christine Blasey Ford (St. Martin’s) goes to No. 13 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers List.

The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church by Sarah McCammon (St. Martin’s; LJ starred review) is at No. 14 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers List.

Reviews

NYT reviews Wolf at the Table by Adam Rapp (Little, Brown): “It is not uncommon for novelists to deal with speculation about how much of their own lives makes its way into their fiction. The typical response is to deflect…. Adam Rapp doesn’t play that game.”

The Guardian reviews Choice by Neel Mukherhjee (Norton; LJ starred review): “Choice represents another order of self-referential metafiction. It succeeds, though, because it’s never without fiction’s traditional pleasures, from the close social observation of rural Bengal to delicate evocations of London.”

LitHub recommends “5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week.”

Briefly Noted

In The Guardian, Liu Cixin, author of A View from the Stars (Tor), writes about Chinese science fiction.

“For Book Recommendations, People Are Always Better Than Algorithms,” Maris Kreizman argues in LitHub.

Actor Donald Sutherland will publish a memoir, Made Up, But Still True, due out from Crown this fall, Kirkus reports.

Deion Sanders, author of Elevate and Dominate: 21 Ways To Win On and Off the Field (Gallery/13A), answers NYT’s “By the Book” questionnaire.

NYT’s “Inside the Best-Seller List” looks at It’s Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People by Ramani Durvasula (The Open Field).

CrimeReads rounds up the best-reviewed crime fiction of March and also has lists of domestic horror novels, “everyday evil in crime fiction,” and examples of the increasing diversity of Southern gothic and rural noir.

The Guardian selects five of the best books about social media.

LitHub highlights the 22 best book covers of March.

“HarperCollins UK’s gender pay gap shrinks slightly as ethnicity pay gap increases on 2022,” The Bookseller reports.

The Oxford English Dictionary’s latest update adds 23 Japanese words, The Guardian reports.

Harvard removes the binding of human skin from a book in its library, according to NYT.

Authors on Air

LitHub’s Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast talks to Sally Franson, author of Big in Sweden (Mariner).

Today, NPR’s Fresh Air will host Nancy A. Nichols, author of Women Behind the Wheel: An Unexpected and Personal History of the Car (Pegasus).

Shelf Awareness rounds up the schedule for this weekend’s Book TV on C-SPAN 2.

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