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Awards & Book News

The longlist for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year is revealed, The Bookseller reports.

Oakland, CA, poet laureate Ayodele Nzinga, author of SorrowLand Oracle (Black Lawrence Pr.), receives a Rainin Arts Fellowship; Publishers Weekly has the news.

Abrams ComicArts is launching a new imprint, Kana, focused on manga series translated into English for the U.S. market, mainly for adult audiences. Publishers Weekly has the news.

LA Times profiles Zando, “the independent publisher making a business of celebrity book imprints.”

Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti will rerelease their BookTok-beloved self-published “Zodiac Academy” romantasy series under their new publishing company Dark Ink (distributed in the U.S. by S. & S.), Publishers Weekly reports.

New Title Bestsellers

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

Fiction

Jujutsu Kaisen, Vol. 22 by Gege Akutami (VIZ) takes No. 1 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

A Calamity of Souls by David Baldacci (Grand Central) crashes to No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list and No. 4 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Close to Death by Anthony Horowitz (Harper) finishes at No. 12 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

Nonfiction

An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin (S. & S) achieves No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list and No. 5 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Love, Mom: Inspiring Stories Celebrating Motherhood by Nicole Saphier (Broadside) is celebrated at No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list and No. 14 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list, though some retailers report receiving bulk orders.

Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder (Random) reaches No. 4 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End by Alua Arthur (Mariner) hits No. 7 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-Wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me by Caleb Carr (Little, Brown) snatches No. 8 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Seriously, So Good: Simple Recipes for a Balanced Life by Carissa Stanton (S. & S./Simon Element) balances at No. 8 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Financial Literacy for All: Disrupting Struggle, Advancing Financial Freedom, and Building a New American Middle Class by John Hope Bryant advances to No. 12 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America’s Struggle To Defend the West by David E. Sanger & Mary K. Brooks (Crown) defends No. 15 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Reviews

Washington Post reviews Our Kindred Creatures: How Americans Came To Feel the Way They Do About Animals by Bill Wasik & Monica Murphy (Knopf): “Wasik and Murphy are finally optimistic that the ‘circle of our care’ is slowly expanding. The question is whether this gradual blossoming of compassion will come fast enough in an era of climate change to save our kindred creatures—and ourselves”; and The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality by Amanda Montell (Atria: One Signal): “Montell leads us through an engaging roundup of ‘21st century derangement,’ from celebrity worship to tradwife discourse, examining how cognitive biases may contribute. But by positioning her work as a response to America’s broad struggle with mental health, Montell promises more than she delivers.”

LA Times reviews An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin (S. & S): “At its most poignant, An Unfinished Love Story is, as the title indicates, an account of personal loss. It also turns out to be a reflection on the process of constructing history, suggesting how time, perspective and stories left unwritten can shape our view of the past.”

NYT has short reviews of mystery novels by Catherine Mack, Katrina Carrasco, Marcia Muller and K.C. Constantine.

Briefly Noted

Presidential biography Reagan: His Life and Legend by Max Boot will be published by Liveright: Norton this fall, People reports.

This fall, Crown will publish actor Shirley MacLaine’s photo memoir, The Wall of Life: Pictures and Stories from This Marvelous Lifetime; Kirkus has the news.

The Guardian interviews Robinne Lee, author of the recently-adapted-for-film The Idea of You (St. Martin’s Griffin).

Steve Gleason, author of A Life Impossible: Living with ALS: Finding Peace and Wisdom Within a Fragile Existence, written with Jeff Duncan (Knopf), answers NYT’s “By the Book” questionnaire.

Danielle Dutton, author of Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other (Coffee House), takes LitHub’s “Annotated Nightstand” survey.

Kirkus identifies “Essay Collections That Expand All the Boundaries.”

At Reactor, Cole Rush recommends “Five SFF Mysteries That I Couldn’t Put Down.”

Vulture suggests 10 books to read after finishing FX’s Shōgun.

CrimeReads rounds up “the strange, sad literature of evil mothers.”

Vulture lists “everything Barbra Streisand eats in her 970-page memoir: From peas with sugar to burgers with Brando to guggle-muggle.”

Poetry critic Helen Vendler, “with a reputation-making power that derived from her fine-grained, impassioned readings,” has died at age 90; NYT has an obituary.

Authors on Air

NPR talks to Adam Moss, author of The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing (Penguin Pr.).

NPR’s Morning Edition interviews photographer Ivan McClellan about his new photobook, Eight Seconds: Black Rodeo Culture (Damiani).

NPR’s Fresh Air speaks with Susan Page, author of The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters (S. & S.).

Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder (Random), goes on PBS News Hour.

LitHub’s Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast interviews Tracie McMillan, author of The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America (Holt).

Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian will be adapted for the big screen, Deadline reports.

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