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Awards News & Summer Reads

Jesmyn Ward will receive the 2022 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, as announced via press release today.

The 2021 Ladies of Horror Fiction Awards winners are announced.

The AIGA 50 Books | 50 Covers winners are announced.

Time lists “9 New Books You Should Read in July.”

NYT provides "12 New Books Coming in July."

CrimeReads shares the “Best Reviewed Crime Books” for June 2022. Also, coverage of the Sisters in Crime (SinC) awards.

Rozanne Coady makes recommendations on what you should read this summer on her Just the Right Book podcast.

New Title Bestsellers

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

Fiction

The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager (Dutton) floats to No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 14 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Escape by James Patterson and David Ellis (Little, Brown) finds No. 4 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh (Penguin Pr.; LJ starred review) debuts at No. 5 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Jujutsu Kaisen, Vol. 16 by Gege Akutami (VIZ) cuts to No. 11 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

The Lies I Tell by Julie Clark (Sourcebooks Landmark) begins at No. 12 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Nonfiction

An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong (Random) uncovers No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Reviews

Locus Magazine reviews The Grief of Stones by Liz Bourke (Tor; LJ starred review): “a novel about outsiders, about the overlooked and the looked-down-upon. And it’s a novel suffused with grief…”

NYT Why We Did It: A Travelogue From the Republican Road to Hell by Tim Miller (Harper): “The most honorable parts of “Why We Did It,” Miller’s darkly funny (if also profoundly dispiriting) post-mortem/mea culpa, are the ones that dispense with pious pretense.”

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

Briefly Noted

NYT interviews Leila Mottley, author of best-selling Nightcrawling (Knopf; LJ starred review), about the journey to her debut book.

Tim Miller, Why We Did It: A Travelogue From the Republican Road to Hell (Harper), talks to People about being a Republican “hitman” and “why his former friends and colleagues stayed on the MAGA train.” Also, an interview with Matthew Hild talks about Andy Gibb’s “struggle with fame, cocaine addiction, and death at 30” in his upcoming book Arrow Through the Heart: The Biography of Andy Gibb.

Kieron Gillen, writer of the Judgment Day comic series, lays out “how to build a Marvel crossover worth reading” for Entertainment Weekly.

Jason Mott, Hell of a Book (Dutton), answers the Lit Hub Questionnaire. 

Tor.com shares an excerpt of Garden of Earthly Bodies by Sally Oliver (Abrams).

USA Today explores book bans and the week's best seller lists.

CrimeReads highlights “books and movies that blur the line between justice and revenge.”

Lit Hub has a "reading list for the greiving" and "five books that reckon with not belonging."

Authors on Air

NPR’s Fresh Air speaks to Mat Johnson, author of Invisible Things (One World), about the difficulty in telling apart real life and satire.

Jamie Bartlett chats with the Keen On podcast about her newest book and subject, The Missing Cryptoqueen: The Billion Dollar Cryptocurrency Con and the Woman Who Got Away With It (Hachette). Also, Jenny Kleeman talks about “what the end of Roe might tell us” about the subjects in her book, Sex Robots and Vegan Meat: Adventures at the Frontier of Birth, Food, Sex, and Death (Pegasus).

Van Lathan Jr., Fat, Crazy, and Tired: Tales from the Trenches of Transformation (Legacy Lit), speaks to Whitney Terrell on the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast about the deep influence that Star Wars has on American life.

Austin Kleon, Steal Like An Artist (Workman), discusses “the gift of obscurity” with Brad Listi on the Otherppl podcast.

Marie Myung-Ok Lee, The Evening Hero (S. & S.), has a conversation with Maris Kreizman about "the cultural memories of Korea" on The Maris Review podcast.

A Philip K. Dick biopic is being adapted from Paul Williams’ Only Apparently Real, produced by Jon Shestack, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Also, Amazon Studios has picked up the rights to comic book Eight Billion Genies by Charles Soule and Ryan Browne.

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