Want to get the latest book news delivered to your inbox each day? Sign up for our daily Book Pulse newsletter.

Buzzy Book News 

Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses is back on the best sellers list and more on best sellers this week from USA Today.

Writers will “Stand with Salman Rushdie” at the New York Public Library, according to Lit Hub. The site also has more news on book banning in a Texas school.

Poets & Writers covers “forty years of Banned Books Week” and the “literary dimensions of TikTok.”

Ring of Fire Press is closing due to the founder’s death. Locus Magazine reports.

LIt Hub continues coverage of the Penguin Random House trial.

NYT shares “newly published” books this week.

New Title Bestsellers

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

Fiction

Heat 2 by Michael Mann and Meg Gardiner (Morrow; LJ starred review) debuts at No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 11 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

The Family Remains by Lisa Jewell (Atria) starts at No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid (Riverhead; LJ starred review) begins at No. 15 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Local Girl Missing by Lisa Regan (Bookouture) finds No. 15 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Nonfiction

I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy (S. & S.) celebrates No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list and No. 3 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe by David Maraniss (S. & S.) illuminates No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list. 

The Destructionists: The Twenty-Five Year Crack-Up of the Republican Party by Dana Milbank (Doubleday) opens at No. 5 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list. 

Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers by Mary Rodgers and Jesse Green (Farrar) shines at No. 6 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list. 

Life on the Mississippi: An Epic American Adventure by Rinker Buck (Avid Reader Pr./ S. & S.) floats to No. 8 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Existential Physics: A Scientist’s Guide to Life’s Biggest Questions by Sabine Hossenfelder (Viking) calculates No. 11 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

America, A Redemption Story by Tim Scott with Joel N. Clark (Thomas Nelson) delivers No. 12 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Reviews

NYT reviews Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah (Riverhead): "a celebration of a place and time when people held onto their own ways, and basked in ordinary joys even as outside forces conspired to take them away." Also, three short reviews on new novels involving "manhunts, posthumous plays and love-struck ghosts" including: The Scent of Burnt Flowers by Blitz Bazawule (Ballantine), Keya Das's Second Act by Sopan Deb (S. & S.), and Briefly, A Delicious Life by Nell Stevens (Scribner). 

The Washington Post reviews Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation by Nuar Alsadir (Graywolf Pr.): "a gift to the courageous. It offers an opportunity for self-reflection and growth that, as in psychoanalysis, necessitates a head-on collision with pain." And, The Disappearance of Josef Mengele by Olivier Guez (Verso): "deeply researched novel about the post-World War II decades of one of the most hunted, and hated, fugitives of the 20th century. It is as gruesome as it is indelible. Perhaps that is why, in addition to winning the prestigious Prix Renaudot literary award in 2017, the French novel has been translated into 25 languages and become a worldwide bestseller." Also, Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Ballantine; LJ starred review): “Even if you’re not a tennis fan, this novel will grab you. You’ll tear through blow-by-blow descriptions of championship matches on some of the most famous tennis courts in the world. Equally entrancing is the audio version. Close your eyes and your head will move right and left, and left and right, as you envision the racket-breaking matches between Carrie and her rivals.”

NPR reviews two anthologies where “Afghan women raise their voices” including: My Pen is the Wing of a Bird (Grand Central) and We are Still Here: Afghan Women on Courage, Freedom, and the Fight to Be Heard edited by Nahihd Shahalimi (Plume). 

The Los Angeles Times reviews As It Turns Out: Thinking About Edie and Andy by Alice Sedgwick Wohl (Farrar): “isn’t a memoir or mere revision, but an attempt to understand the intense attention, even obsession, of Edie and Andy and how their pairing foreshadowed the influencer’s age.”

Locus Magazine reviews Darling Girl: A Novel of Peter Pan by Liz Michalski (Dutton): “tightly plotted, as befits a novel that toes the lines of urban fantasy, family melodrama, and crime mystery.”

Tor.com reviews August Kitko and the Mechas From Space by Alex White (Orbit): “an explosive, sensory introduction to a world full of intergalactic drama and exhilarating romance that’s ripe for bringing speculative critique into focus.”

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

Briefly Noted

Poets & Writers explores Namwali Serpell’s life and book The Furrows: An Elegy (Hogarth) and animal narration in What We Fed to the Manticore by Talia Lakshmi Kolluri (Tin House), and O. Henry Prize winning translated pieces in The Best Short Stories 2022 edited by Valeria Luiselli (Anchor) in a new issue of the magazine.

Frances Mayes, A Place in the World: Finding the Meaning of Home (Crown), answers the NYT's By the Book questionnaire.

The New York Times Style Magazine’s T Book Club revisits E.L. Doctorow’s use of “fact and fantasy'' to deliver a pointed critique in Ragtime (Modern Library). 

Entertainment Weekly provides fans of The Sandman a list of “the best comics to read right now.” Also, a feature on Ryan North, a Fantastic Four writer with his future “plans for Marvel’s first family.”

People profiles Brian Gewirtz and his new book of “untold backstage WWE stories” There’s Just One Problem…: True Tales from the Former, One-Time, 7th Most Powerful Person in WWE (Twelve: Hachette).

Poets & Writers’ Page One explores “where new and noteworthy books begin” including The Crane Wife by CJ Hauser (Doubleday) and Gods of Want: Stories by K-Ming Chang (One World). Also, The Anthologist highlights new collections featuring Nonwhite and Woman: 131 Micro Essays on Being in the World edited by Darian Hsu Gee (Woodhall Press), among others.

Fox News reports on writer Scott Ruesterholz’s new book The American Character: Forty Lives that Define Our National Spirit (Post Hill) as “honoring American icons.”

Novelist and theologian Frederick Buechner has died at 96. The Washington Post has more on his life.

Writer Cecile Pineda has died at 89. The NYT reports. 

Authors on Air

Young-Ha Kim’s Diary of a Murderer (Mariner) will be adapted into a film from Mammoth Pictures, according to Deadline.

Mike Rothschild, author of The Storm Is Upon Us: How Qanon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything (Melville), talks to Andrew Keen about “conspiracy theories and scams” on the Keen On podcast.

Dave Davies talks to Beth Macy, author of Raising Lazarus: Hope, Justice, and the Future of America’s Overdose Crisis (Little, Brown), about “citizen volunteers combating addiction” in an interview for NPR’s Fresh Air. 

Want to get the latest book news delivered to your inbox each day? Sign up for our daily Book Pulse newsletter.