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Awards & Book News

Winners of the CrimeFest Awards are announced.

Alexis Wright’s Praiseworthy (New Directions), Iman Mersal’s Traces of Enayat (Transit), and Ian Penman’s Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors (Semiotext(e)) win the James Tait Black Prizes for biography and fiction; The Bookseller has the news.

The Finnish translation of This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (Saga; LJ starred review) wins the Helsinki Science Fiction Society’s Tähtivaeltaja Award, Locus reports.

New Title Bestsellers

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

Fiction

Five Broken Blades by Mai Corland (Entangled: Red Tower) wins No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list and No. 9 on the USA Today Bestselling Books List.

The 24th Hour by James Patterson & Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown) rings in No. 4 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list and No. 13 on the USA Today Bestselling Books List.

Chainsaw Man, Vol. 15 by Tatsuki Fujimoto (VIZ Media) cuts down No. 4 on the USA Today Bestselling Books List.

Long Island by Colm Toíbín (Scribner) achieves No.5 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list and No. 12 on the USA Today Bestselling Books List.

This Summer Will Be Different by Carley Fortune (Berkley) shines at No. 7 on the USA Today Bestselling Books List.

Summers at the Saint by Mary Kay Andrews (St. Martin’s) grabs No. 9 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley (Avid Reader/S. & S.) governs No. 11 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

Mistakes We Never Made by Hannah Brown with Emily Larrabee (Forever) reaches No. 15 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

Nonfiction

You Never Know: A Memoir by Tom Selleck with Ellis Henican (Dey Street) receives No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list and No. 10 on the USA Today Bestselling Books List.

The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation by Victor Davis Hanson (Basic) annihilates No. 4 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me by Whoopi Goldberg (Blackstone) gets a piece of No. 5 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

No Going Back: The Truth on What's Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward by Kristi Noem (Center Street) gets No. 6 on the USA Today Bestselling Books List and No. 9 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list, though some retailers report receiving bulk orders.

Coming Home by Brittney Griner with Michelle Burford (Knopf) arrives at No. 7 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth by Zoë Schlanger (Harper) lights up No. 13 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Discovering Daniel: Finding Our Hope in God’s Prophetic Plan Amid Global Chaos by Amir Tsarfati & Rick Yohn (Harvest Prophecy) finds No. 14 on the USA Today Bestselling Books List.

Reviews

NYT reviews Massacre in the Clouds: An American Atrocity and the Erasure of History by Kim A. Wagner (PublicAffairs): “Wagner recreates the massacre and its aftermath in unsparing detail, and he is helped along by startlingly frank accounts from the Americans who did the killing”; and three new books about business: Taming the Octopus: The Long Battle for the Soul of the Corporation by Kyle Edward Williams (Norton), Behind the Startup: How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality by Benjamin Shestakofsky (Univ. of California), and The Wolves of K Street: The Secret History of How Big Money Took Over Big Government by Brody and Luke Mullins (S. & S.).

Washington Post reviews All Fours by Miranda July (Riverhead): “July seems determined to cure the inhibitions of middle age by stripping away every censorial impulse and plunging us into a bubble bath of erotic candor”; Long Island by Colm Toíbín (Scribner): “He creates a heartbreaking world but does not impose it; instead, he parts a curtain and allows time for a slow, intense deepening of the drama behind it”; and three SFF books: Lost Ark Dreaming by Suyi Davies Okungbowa (Tor.com; LJ starred review), Escape Velocity by Victor Manibo (Erewhon), and I’m Afraid You’ve Got Dragons by Peter S. Beagle (Saga/S. & S.).

The Millions reviews All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess by Becca Rothfeld (Metropolitan): “Her prose is robustly Rabelaisian, warm and mirth filled. Her beautifully crafted sentences are a testament to language’s sensuous abundance.”

Briefly Noted

In CrimeReads, Michael Gonzales discusses Hog Butcher by Ronald L. Fair (Northwestern Univ.).

Artist Kara Walker answers NYT’s “By the Book” questionnaire.

LitHub recommends “the literature of the small town.”

CrimeReads gathers six of the best queer mysteries and “three great time travel books for people who don't like science fiction.”

Authors on Air

LitHub’s History of Literature podcast interviews Adelle Waldman, author of Help Wanted (Norton), and Edward Chamberlin, author of Storylines: How Words Shape Our World (Douglas & MacIntyre).

Today, NPR’s Fresh Air will talk to Carvell Wallace, author of Another Word for Love: A Memoir (MCD).

Kirkus has the summary from Amor Towles’s visit to Late Night with Seth Meyers to talk about Table for Two: Fictions (Viking; LJ starred review).

Shelf Awareness rounds up the schedule for this weekend’s Book TV on C-SPAN 2, which is at the San Antonio Book Festival.

Keira Knightley to star in movie adaptation of The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware, People reports.

Deadline has details about the film adaptation of The Deputy by Victor Gischler (Gallery).

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