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USA Today Book Club Pick, Plus Awards and Adaptations

USA Today’s June Book Club pick is T.J. Newman’s Drowning: The Rescue of Flight 1421 (Avid Reader; LJ starred review).

The July Indie Next List is out. The top pick is The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession by Michael Finkel (Knopf; LJ starred review).

“Crime Writers’ Association appoints Vaseem Khan as its first non-white chair.” The Guardian has the news.

The 2023 Premios Kelvin finalists are announced.

Jasmine Sealy wins the Amazon First Novel Award for The Island of Forgetting (HarperAvenue), honoring the best debut Canadian novel. CBC reports.

The Royal Society of Literature has released a shortlist for the 2023 Encore Award, celebrating outstanding achievements in second novels. The shortlistees are Milk Teeth (Hachette) by Jessica Andrews, Factory Girls (Algonquin; LJ starred review) by Michelle Gallen, Emergency (Astra House) by Daisy Hildyard, Complicit (Atria/Emily Bestler) by Winnie M. Li, and Here Again Now (Dialogue Bks.) by Okechukwu Nzelu.

Amazon picks the best books of June.

Popsugar names “The 83 Best New Books of 2023 So Far.”

AudioFile selects three new Golden Voices narrators, Kevin R. Free, Marin Ireland, and Nicholas Boulton.

New Title Best Sellers

NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers | NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers | USA Today Best-Selling Books

Fiction:

Identity by Nora Roberts (St. Martin’s) shows up at No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Tom Clancy Flash Point by Don Bentley (Putnam) sparks at No. 9 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Rogue Justice by Stacey Abrams (Doubleday) debuts at No. 15 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Nonfiction:

The Book of Charlie by David Von Drehle (S. & S.) arrives at No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

On Our Best Behavior by Elise Loehnen (Dial) appears at No. 6 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Raw Dog by Jamie Loftus (Forge) comes in at No. 9 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Holding the Note by David Remnick (Knopf) holds No. 13 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Reviews

The Washington Post reviews Jane Delury’s Hedge (Zibby): “Hedge puts a new spin on the midlife crisis novel…. Delury’s language is clear and clean, lavish in garden detail (landscapes, both internal and exterior, gloriously described) yet also taut and sinewy in service to its story.”

LitHub selects five book reviews you need to read this week.

Plus the best-reviewed books of the month, via LitHub.

Briefly Noted

LitHub offers a Pride Month booklist sourced from writers with 2023 debuts: “Ten LGBTQ+ Authors on the Books That Taught Them.”

NYT selects 9 new books coming in June.

The LA Times lists 10 books to add to your reading list this June.

NYT goes “Inside the Best-Seller List” with Dave Eggers.

“Mary Trump and E. Jean Carroll Are Collaborating on a Romance Novel,” to be published on Substack over the next year, reports NYT.

Neil Gaiman and P. Craig Russell’s Norse Mythology will be released in a deluxe collection by Dark Horse Comics, Tor.com reports.

IPG will distribute Open Road Integrated Media’s print books and become their eBook aggregator, Publishers Lunch reports.

Tor.com has excerpts from Siddhartha Deb’s The Light at the End of the World (Soho; LJ starred review) and Chesya Burke’s Hero Me Not: The Containment of the Most Powerful Black, Female Superhero (Rutgers Univ.).

S.A. Cosby, All the Sinners Bleed (Flatiron; LJ starred review), answers NYT’s “By the Book” questionnaire.

Medical anthropologist Theresa MacPhail, Allergic: Our Irritated Bodies in a Changing World (Random), tells NPR “why our allergies are getting worse—and what to do about it.”

The Washington Post interviews Jane Smiley, The Questions That Matter Most: Reading, Writing, and the Exercise of Freedom (Heyday; LJ starred review).

Shondaland interviews Rita Chang-Eppig, Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea (Bloomsbury).

Electric Lit talks with Luis Alberto Urrea, Good Night, Irene (Little, Brown).

Vogue has a conversation with Maria Yagoda, Laid and Confused: Why We Tolerate Bad Sex and How To Stop (St. Martin’s).

Book Riot offers “9 Beautiful Nonfiction Books By Trans & Nonbinary Asian Authors To Read Right Now” and “The Best Books You’ve Never Heard Of From The 2000s.”

AARP picks “18 Fantastic Book Club Reads Now in Paperback.”

Popsugar highlights “57 New Mystery and Thriller Books You Won’t Be Able to Put Down.”

Tor.com lists “Four Science Fiction Novels Set in Future Versions of San Francisco.”

CBC gathers “All the Canadian books you should read this spring.”

USA Today selects “book adaptations we can’t wait to watch.”

Ghanaian novelist-playwright Ama Ata Aidoo has died aged 81. The BBC has an obituary, and LitHub gathers more tributes.

Authors On Air

Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart (Knopf), opens up about identity and loss on Good Morning America.

Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross, Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us (Random), discuss “how a blend of science and art is improving neurological health” on PBS NewsHour.

The Apple TV+ limited drama series adaptation of Lessons in Chemistry (Doubleday; LJ starred review) starring Brie Larson will premiere on October 13. Deadline has the news.

Joe Abercrombie’s Best Served Cold will be adapted for film by Skydance, Deadline reports.

A “post-pandemic”-themed limited TV series adaptation of John le Carré’s The Constant Gardener is in the works, according to Deadline.

Today on NPR’s Fresh Air: an interview with Kwame Alexander, Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Recipes, Letters, and Remembrances (Little, Brown).

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