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Awards & Buzzy Book News

2022 World Fantasy Awards winners are announced.

2022 Golden Poppy Finalists are announced.

Gerald Howard wins the 2022 Biography International Organization's (BIO) Editorial Excellence Award.

Entangled Publishing is launching Red Tower Books, a New Adult commerical-fiction imprint "focused on romantic fantasy and science fiction genres," as announced via press release.

Publishers Weekly has shared the full court decision regarding the blocking a proposed merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster.

NYT highlights the work of Enheduanna, "history's first named author." The paper is also delving into new "Jane Austen-inspired books."

New Title Bestsellers

Links for the week: NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers | NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers | USA Today Best-Selling Books

Fiction

Going Rogue by Janet Evanovich (Atria) commands No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 3 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Triple Cross by James Patterson (Little, Brown) ticks No. 4 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 7 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

The Cloisters by Katy Hays (Atria; LJ starred review) reveals No. 10 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Racing the Light by Robert Crais (Putnam) speeds to No. 12 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 13 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

The Bad Guys in the Others (The Bad Guys #16) by Aaron Blabey (Scholastic) debuts at No. 12 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Nonfiction

Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry (Flatiron) begins at No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list and No. 2 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story by Bono (Knopf; LJ starred review) shines at No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list and No. 8 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

The Philosophy of Modern Song by Bob Dylan (S. & S.) hums to No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list and No. 15 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Cinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino (Harper) arrives at No. 5 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Reviews

NYT has short list reviews of three books exploring "the complexities and comforts of human connection" including Small Game by Blair Braverman (Ecco: HarperCollins; LJ starred review); When We Were Sisters by Fatimah Asghar (One World); and The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler (MCD).

Tor.com reviews The Lost Metal by Brandon Sanderson via a conversation between reviewers Wax and Wayne.

NPR reviews Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family by Rabia Chaudry (Algonquin): “Many readers will eat it up, finding consolation in Chaudry's story. But even those who, like Chaudry, have felt "trapped on the perpetual hamster wheel of weight loss and gain," may tire of the minutely chronicled binges and weigh-ins.”

Book Marks has "5 Books Reviews You Need to Read This Week."

Briefly Noted

David Jacks speaks to NYT about “how Peter Asher, a jack-of-all trades in music, mastered them all” as detailed in his book, Peter Asher: A Life in Music (Backbeat).

Lynn Steger Strong writes about her experience being a published author with her newest book, Flight (Mariner) for NYT. 

Actor and writer Tom Felton, Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard (Grand Central: Life & Style), chats about "family, fame and how he landed the role of a lifetime" to NYT's Inside the Best-Seller List. 

Mel Brooks, author of memoir All About Me! (Ballantine), answers NYT's By the Book questions.

The Washington Post digs into The Varieties of Spiritual Experience by David B. Yaden and Andrew B. Newberg (Oxford) as an update to William James' 1902 The Varieties of Religious Experience (Library of America).

The New Yorker takes another look at Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's book, Dictee (University of California), as it received a new edition. 

CrimeReads revisits the recently reissued, Murder After Christmas by Rupert Latimer (Poisoned Pen). 

USA Today highlights books from the week's best sellers.

Lit Hub gives "book recommendations for the troubled soul."

Tor.com lists “Ten Stories From the End of History.”

The Washington Post recommends 4 books about the satisfaction that comes from a "bookish life."

Authors on Air

Katherine Corcoran, author of In the Mouth of the Wolf: A Murder, a Cover-Up, and the True Cost of Silencing the Press (Bloomsbury), talks about “how the 2012 murder of a Mexican journalist should be a warning about press freedoms in America” on the Keen On podcast. Also, Eduardo Halfon, Canción, trans. by Lisa Dillman and Daniel Hahn (Bellevue Literary), discusses writing as an identity and as an action. Plus, a conversation about “what Japan can teach urban Americans about regenerating rural values and practices” with Richard McCarthy, co-author of Kuni: A Japanese Vision and Practice for Urban-Rural Reconnection, written with Tsuyoshi Sekihara (North Atlantic).

Lynn Steger Strong chats about writing a “domestic novel” with her new book, Flight (Mariner) on the Otherppl podcast.

Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, The Fact of a Body (Flatiron), talks on the Thresholds podcast about "the power of a sequined tuxedo, and what it means for a culture to put a narrative onto a person."

Deadline has news on the television series adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s, The Sympathizer (Grove; LJ Starred Review) for HBO and A24.

There will be no Book Pulse tomorrow, November 11 in observance of Veteran's Day.

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