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Awards & Book News

The winners of the Whiting Award for emerging authors are announced. NPR has coverage.

The shortlists for the Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards for British food writing are announced, The Bookseller reports.

The shortlists for the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s Romantic Novel of the Year Awards are announced. The Bookseller has coverage.

The longlists for the League of Canadian Poets Prizes are announced, CBC reports.

The nominees for the Doug Wright Awards for best Canadian comics are announced; CBC has the news.

“Simon & Schuster Turns 100 With a New Owner and a Sense of Optimism,” NYT writes.

New Title Bestsellers

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

Fiction

Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez (Forever: Grand Central; LJ starred review) swims to No. 1 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Table for Two: Fictions by Amor Towles (Viking; LJ starred review) dines on No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list and No. 4 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

She’s Not Sorry by Mary Kubica (Park Row) takes No. 8 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

City in Ruins (Morrow) destroys No. 9 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

The Rule Book by Sarah Adams (Dell) rules at No. 11 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

The Husbands by Holly Gramazio (Doubleday) is wedded to No. 12 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

You’d Look Better as a Ghost by Joanna Wallace (Penguin Bks.) haunts No. 15 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Nonfiction

The False White Gospel: Rejecting Christian Nationalism, Reclaiming True Faith, and Refounding Democracy by Jim Wallis (St. Martin's Essentials) holds No. 4 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Never Leave the Dogs Behind: A Memoir by Brianna Madia (HarperOne) carries No. 5 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Plantyou: Scrappy Cooking: 140+ Plant-Based Zero-Waste Recipes That Are Good for You, Your Wallet, and the Planet by Carleigh Bodrug (Hachette Go; LJ starred review) grows to No. 9 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick (Portfolio) grabs No. 9 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers List, though some retailers report receiving bulk orders.

Sociopath: A Memoir by Patric Gagne (S. & S.) gets No. 11 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers List.

Disciplined Entrepreneurship, Expanded & Updated: 24 Steps to a Successful Startup by Bill Aulet (Wiley) stars at No. 12 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Rebel Rising by Rebel Wilson (S. & S.) rises to No. 12 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers List, though some retailers report receiving bulk orders.

Reviews

Washington Post reviews Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent by Judi Dench & Brendan O’Hea (St. Martin’s; LJ starred review): “This book could have been a cross between a starchy academic study and a meandering trawl through Dench’s past glories. Instead, it is a delight, at once lively, captivating and informative”; and “thrilling historical fiction”: The Girls We Sent Away by Meagan Church (Sourcebooks Landmark), Becoming Madam Secretary by Stephanie Dray (Berkley), The Tower by Flora Carr (Doubleday), All We Were Promised by Ashton Lattimore (Ballantine), and Can’t We Be Friends: A Novel of Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe by Denny S. Bryce & Eliza Knight (Morrow Paperbacks).

NYT reviews three new psychological thrillers: Kill for Me, Kill for You by Steve Cavanagh (Atria), The Princess of Las Vegas by Chris Bohjalian (Doubleday), and How To Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin (Dutton).

LitHub highlights five book reviews to read this week.

Briefly Noted

Creator and historian of comic books Trina Robbins has died at 84; NYT has an obituary.

The late Aleksei Navalny wrote a memoir, Patriot, which will be published by Knopf on Oct. 22, NYT reports.

Poets&Writers talks to Ricardo Alberto Maldonado, the first Latine president and executive director of the Academy of American Poets.

Doris Kearns Goodwin, An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s (S. & S), answers NYT’s “By the Book” questionnaire.

NYT goes “Inside the Best-Seller List” with Hanif Abdurraqib’s There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension (Random).

The hottest new release on BookTok is Audible’s “audio-immersive play adaptation” of George Orwell’s 1984, Vulture reports.

Publishers Weekly shares panels excerpted from Eddie Ahn’s Advocate: A Graphic Memoir of Family, Community, and the Fight for Environmental Justice (Ten Speed Graphic).

In an essay in NYT, novelist Ayana Mathis finds “unexpected hope in novels of crisis” by Ling Ma, Jenny Offill and Jesmyn Ward.

LitHub has “A Reading List for Americans in Search of LGBTQ Canadian History.”

CrimeReads gathers must-read “bad-neighbor” thrillers.

Reactor rounds up “12 Poems That Consider the Cosmos.”

The Guardian explains where to start with Patricia Highsmith.

In LitHub, Cappy Yarbrough shares “How Dyslexia Made Me More Passionate About Reading (and Selling) Books.”

Authors on Air

NPR’s Fresh Air interviews Rachel Lance, author of Chamber Divers: The Untold Story of the D-Day Scientists Who Changed Special Operations Forever (Dutton).

LitHub’s Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast talks to S.L. Wisenberg, author of The Adventures of Cancer Bitch (Tortoise).

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

Eric LaRocca’s upcoming novel, At Dark, I Become Loathsome (due out on January 28, 2025), has been optioned for an adaptation, Deadline reports.

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