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New Title Bestsellers

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

Fiction

Eternal by Lisa Scottoline (Putnam; LJ Starred Review) begins at No. 4 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

The Consequences of Fear by Jacqueline Winspear (Harper) shivers at No. 6 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 10 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

The Bounty by Janet Evanovich & Steve Hamilton (Atria) ranks at No. 8 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 9 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Double Jeopardy by Stuart Woods (G. P. Putnam’s Sons: Penguin) singles in on No. 5 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list and No. 13 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

The Other Emily by Dean Koontz shows up at No. 7 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Nonfiction

Remember by Lisa Genova (Harmony) debuts at No. 11 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Awards

The winners of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Awards are announced. 

The International Prize for Arabic Fiction issues its shortlist. Publishing Perspectives reports.

The 2020 Aurealis Awards finalists are out.

Reviews

NPR reviews Beautiful Things: A Memoir by Hunter Biden (Gallery: S. & S.): “In the end, if it is not about forgiveness or sympathy, this memoir may be about making a stand.” Also, A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey by Jonathan Meiburg (Knopf; LJ Starred Review): “Meiburg's voice is poetic; where other nature writers are known for the images they paint of landscapes, here are presented impressions, concepts as complex as species' movements over geologic time, in a way that is at once clear and beautiful.”

NYT reviews The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America by Gabriel Winant (Harvard University Press): “The replacement of blue-collar work by pink-collar work has been much discussed, but what makes this book stand out is Winant’s argument that two seemingly distinct phenomena are in fact inextricably connected.”  Also, Ghosts of New York by Jim Lewis (West Virginia University Press): “Lewis’s sentences read like events, and his eye for the smallest detail is exquisite (when did the garbage cans change color?). At the same time, he shrouds his New York in a hazy layer of subterfuge, playing with tense and narration, so that it’s never entirely clear what year — or even decade — we’re in.” Lastly, Cynthia Ozick, Antiquities (Knopf), reviews Philip Roth: The Biography by Blake Bailey (Norton): “a narrative masterwork both of wholeness and particularity, of crises wedded to character, of character erupting into insight, insight into desire, and desire into destiny.”

The LA Times reviews Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff VanderMeer (MCD: Farrar): “The novel isn’t just about how we’re too involved in the quotidian to notice a crisis, though. It’s also about how our empowerment fantasies are particularly ill-suited to deal with that crisis.” Also, Blow Your House Down: A Story of Family, Feminism, and Treason by Gina Frangello (Counterpoint): “In Frangello’s memoir, moreover, personal revelation is bolstered and emboldened by feminist theory.”

The Washington Post also reviews Beautiful Things: A Memoir by Hunter Biden (Gallery: S. & S.): “organized around two parallel narratives: pervasive grief over Beau’s absence and the unvarnished confessional of an addict.” Also, The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton (37 Ink: Atria; LJ Starred Review): “which gives readers the chance to meet an unforgettable character and also provides a lens for considering the real-world artists whose stories have not yet been told in a way that centers them or gives them proper credit.” And, Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic by Glenn Frankel (Farrar; LJ Starred Review): “Frankel tells his story through interweaving profiles, mostly of men who have to overcome financial woes, combustible egos and their own self-doubt. Frankel’s message seems to be: It takes desperate men to make a movie about other desperate men.” Lastly, several “Light comedies for April Fool’s Day.”

Book Marks picks “5 Reviews You Need to Read This Month.”

Briefly Noted 

Entertainment Weekly picks the best books of April.

Amazon’s April list is out as well.

USA Today has a spring books guide.

Lit Hub offers “April's Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books” and CrimeReads selects “10 Novels You Should Read This April.”

Bustle picks “The Best New Books To Read This April.”

Gizmodo gathers April SFF titles.

B&N Reads spotlights the “Most Buzzed About Debuts of 2021 (So Far).”

USA Today has more takeaways from Beautiful Things: A Memoir by Hunter Biden (Gallery: S. & S.).

Vulture profiles Helen Oyeyemi, Peaces (Riverhead: Penguin).

The NYT showcases Brandi Carlile, Broken Horses (Crown).

On Oprah Daily, Oprah interviews Richard Wright's grandson about The Man Who Lived Underground (Library of America).

Shondaland interviews Melissa Febos, Girlhood (Bloomsbury). The Atlantic also has coverage.

The NYT “Inside the List” column focuses on Angeline Boulley, Fire Keeper’s Daughter (Holt:Macmillan).

Entertainment Weekly writes “The Department of Truth comic wants you to think about who benefits from belief in conspiracy theories.” EW also features 99.1% Pure: Breaking Bad Art (Insight Editions).

Haruki Murakami has both a new short story collection out and a line of Uniqlo T-Shirts Oprah Daily reports.

Tim Parks writes about translation in the New York Review.

In forthcoming book news, Deadline reports that Betty Gilpin will pen a collection of personal essays. Flatiron will publish it in spring 2022.

LitHub has a brief update to the Maryland e-book bill.

Arnaud Nourry leaves Hachette Livre. Publishing Perspectives reports.

Authors on Air

NPR’s Fresh Air interviews Alec MacGillis, Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America (FSG: Macmillan).

The NYT writes about the new Hemingway documentary by Lynn Novick and Ken Burns.

Randall Park will adapt the graphic novel Shortcomings by Adrian Tomine. The Marvel comics-based film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings gets a new cast member. John Brownlow’s debut novel, Seventeen, is headed to the movies. Mrs Harris Goes To Paris, the 1958 novella by Paul Gallico, is getting remade as a film. Venom: Let There Be Carnage moves to September 24. Matilda The Musical, based on Roald Dahl’s novel, casts up. To All The Boys gets a spinoff series. Deadline reports on all.

A new animated Batman project is in the works, Batman: The Long Halloween, Part One. The Hollywood Reporter has news.

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