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Awards & Book News

The Horror Writers Association announces its Summer Scares reading list, including Jackal by Erin E. Adams (Bantam; LJ starred review), Such Sharp Teeth by Rachel Harrison (Berkley; LJ starred review), and This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno (MCD x FSG Originals).

Ebru Ojen’s Lojman, tr. by Aron Aji and Selin Gökçesu (City Lights) wins the Republic of Consciousness Prize for independent-press books. Kirkus has coverage.

Ajibola Tolase wins the Cave Canem Prize fellowship for Black poets, Washington Post reports.

The shortlist for the Dylan Thomas Prize is announced. The Guardian has the news.

The longlist for the Griffin Poetry Prize is announced. CBC has coverage.

“Library Community Readies for PLA 2024,” Publishers Weekly reports.

Primatologist and best-selling author Frans de Waal has died at 75. Publishers Weekly has an obituary.

New Title Bestsellers

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

Fiction

Empire of the Damned by Jay Kristoff (St. Martin’s) rises to No. 4 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

A Touch of Chaos by Scarlett St. Clair (Bloom) stirs up No. 5 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Still See You Everywhere by Lisa Gardner (Grand Central) hits No. 13 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

Until August by Gabriel García Márquez, tr. by Anne McLean (Knopf), takes No. 15 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

Nonfiction

Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar) achieves No. 5 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War by Jim Sciutto (Dutton) comes in at No. 8 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People by Noah Feldman (Farrar) reaches No. 14 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World’s Fastest-Growing Sport by Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg (Mariner) races to No. 15 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Reviews

NYT reviews On Giving Up by Adam Phillips (Farrar): “Phillips’s looping lines of inquiry strike some of his critics as troubling, exasperating or simply annoying…. But eliciting such frustration is perhaps part of the point”; Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner by Natalie Dykstra (Mariner): “Part of the pleasure of this exquisitely detailed and perceptive biography is in imagining which Vermeer we might have bid on in Gardner’s bejeweled shoes, or where in our own homes we’d hang the Rembrandt”; and new crime novels by Andrey Kurkov, Kristen Perrin, Brendan Flaherty, and Deanna Raybourn.

Washington Post reviews The Children of the Dead by Elfriede Jelinek, tr. by Gitta Honegger (Yale Univ.): “Perhaps the only zombie novel written by a Nobel Prize winner. Of course…it is a great deal more than that: a savage reckoning with the Holocaust…and a relentlessly bleak portrait of the human capacity for self-deception”; and two new basketball books: Kingdom on Fire: Kareem, Wooden, Walton, and the Turbulent Days of the UCLA Basketball Dynasty by Scott Howard-Cooper (Atria) and The Real Hoosiers: Crispus Attucks High School, Oscar Robertson, and the Hidden History of Hoops by Jack McCallum (Hachette).

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

Briefly Noted

LitHub interviews Michael Ondaatje about his first poetry collection in 25 years, A Year of Last Things (Knopf; LJ starred review).

The Guardian talks to Serbian horror novelist Barbi Marković.

Morgan Parker, You Get What You Pay For: Essays (One World), answers NYT’s “By the Book” questionnaire.

NYT goes “Inside the Best-Seller List” with Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera (Celadon).

The Guardian explains where to start with Nigerian author Buchi Emecheta.

People has an excerpt from Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Sequel (Celadon).

The NYT Book Review staff offers, “Let Us Help You Find Your Next Book.”

In CrimeReads, Cynthia Pelayo, author of Forgotten Sisters (Thomas & Mercer: Amazon; LJ starred review), highlights six recent and upcoming haunted-house novels.

LitHub recommends “Eight Great Novels of Time Travel.”

Kirkus rounds up “4 Books To Help You Better Understand Modern China.”

Reactor explores Nordic speculative fiction in five novels.

Authors on Air

NPR’s It’s Been a Minute interviews Vinson Cunningham, author of Great Expectations (Hogarth).

NPR’s Fresh Air talks to Catherine Coldstream, author of Cloistered: My Years as a Nun (St. Martin’s).

PBS Canvas speaks with Xochitl Gonzalez, author of Anita de Monte Laughs Last (Flatiron).

LitHub’s Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast interviews Ivy Pochoda, Sing Her Down (MCD; LJ starred review), about portrayals of women athletes in media, literature, and film.

AudioFile’s Behind the Mic podcast talks to Kendra Winchester, a BookRiot editor who reviews audiobooks for AudioFile.

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

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