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Awards & Book News

Winners of the Christian Book Awards are announced; Publishers Weekly has coverage.

Nominees for the Splatterpunk Awards are announced, Locus reports.

For the first time, S. & S. will distribute books into the Spanish-speaking market in the U.S. and around the world through a partnership with Urano World Publishing Group, one of Spain and Latin America’s biggest indie publishers, Publisher Weekly reports.

Authors Equity has partnered with German new adult romance imprint LYX Books to bring bestselling LYX titles to readers in North America; Publishers Weekly has the news.

New Title Bestsellers

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

Fiction

Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry (Berkley; LJ starred review) swells to No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list and on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Shadow of the Solstice by Anne Hillerman (Harper) reaches No. 13 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

Nonfiction

Matriarch: A Memoir by Tina Knowles with Kevin Carr O’Leary (One World) commands No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

The Sky’s the Limit: Lessons in Service, Entrepreneurship and Achieving the American Dream by Joe Garner & John P. Calamos Sr. (Wiley) achieves No. 5 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Notes to John by Joan Didion (Knopf) reaches No. 6 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life by Suleika Jaouad (Random) conjures No. 7 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Casey Dancer: A Memoir About Dating, Stripping, and a Little Hot Yoga by Kristin Casey (Rare Bird) gets No. 8 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

The World Is Your Office: How Work from Anywhere Boosts Talent, Productivity, and Innovation by Prithwiraj Choudhury (Harvard Business Review Pr.) is boosted to No. 12 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

America, América: A New History of the New World by Greg Grandin (Penguin Pr.) has No. 14 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Accidentally on Purpose by Kristen Kish with Stef Ferrari (Little, Brown) serves up No. 15 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Reviews

Washington Post reviews The Passion of Pedro Almodóvar: A Self-Portrait in Seven Films by James Miller (Columbia Univ.): “Miller also writes like a generalist, which I mean as a compliment. His is neither the formulaic efficiency of journalistic prose nor the exhaustive, exhausting density of academic English. Instead, he takes readers on a zippy tour of the work of a prolific director, pausing to examine films and themes that interest him and ignoring the rest.”

NYT reviews Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash by Alexander Clapp (Little, Brown): “There are moments, in Clapp’s book, of great sweep and humanity, and even a few of surprising levity. But these must be looked for, bobbing forlorn amid the computer parts and zip-lock bags stretching clear to the horizon. His is not a fun game, nor is it meant to be.”

The Guardian reviews Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata, tr. by Ginny Tapley Takemori (Grove): “Murata dispenses with conventional world-building and incidental detail, focusing on the points where character and society come into conflict. Her writing is compulsive, and she has an uncanny gift for intimate observations that get under the skin”; and The Pretender by Jo Harkin (Doubleday): “The Pretender is scattered with fine knobbly period language (‘dole,’ ‘maigre,’ ‘puissant,’ ‘wroth’) and witty dialogue, and this stylish delivery brings with it considerable substance.”

LitHub has “Five Book Reviews You Need To Read This Week.”

CrimeReads rounds up the best-reviewed books of the month.

Briefly Noted

Vulture interviews literary critic Andrea Long Chu, author of Authority: Essays (Farrar).

Actor Geena Davis, author of the children’s book The Girl Who Was Too Big for the Page (Philomel), answers NYT’s “By the Book” questionnaire.

USA Today speaks with romance novelist Ana Huang, author of King of Envy (Bloom).

Washington Post has an excerpt from You Can Never Die: A Graphic Memoir by Harry Bliss (Celadon).

Publishers Weekly shares panels from Holler: A Graphic Memoir of Rural Resistance by Denali Sai Nalamalapu (Timber).

Washington Post explores the new style of romance novel covers.

In The Guardian, writers and readers share the books they enjoyed in April.

LA Times suggests 10 books to read in May.

Reactor rounds up “Five SFF Books That Feel Like Studio Ghibli Films.”

Bestselling thriller writer Andrew Gross has died at age 72; NYT has an obituary.

Authors on Air

Kirkus’s Fully Booked podcast interviews actor Lili Taylor, author of Turning to Birds: The Power and Beauty of Noticing (Crown).

LitHub’s Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast talks to Rešoketšwe Manenzhe, author of Scatterlings (HarperVia).

Shelf Awareness has the schedule for this weekend’s Book TV on C-SPAN 2 at the Annapolis Book Festival.

Tomorrow, GMA hosts Kelsey Grammer, author of Karen: A Brother Remembers (Harper Select), and Tamron Hall talks to Tina Knowles, author of Matriarch: A Memoir (One World).

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