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Forthcoming Book News

The 2021 Vivan finalists are announced by the Romance Writers of America.

The 2021 Whiting Award Winners are announced.

The 2021 CBC Short Story Prize longlist is released.

There is an announcement about a new literary award to honor author Amy MacRae. 

PW releases information on its first 3-day virtual U.S. Book Show.

New Title Bestsellers

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

Fiction

Good Company by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney (Ecco) debuts at No. 4 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 8 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

First Person Singular by Haruki Murakami (Knopf) starts at No. 6 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Northern Spy by Flynn Berry (Viking) opens at No. 7 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

You Love Me by Caroline Kepnes (Random House) enjoys No. 11 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Nonfiction

Broken Horses by Brandi Carlile (Crown) gallops to No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list and No. 4 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Finding Freedom: A Cook's Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch (Celadon Books: Macmillan; LJ starred review) heats up to No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list and No. 12 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Broken (in the best possible way) by Jenny Lawson (Holt: Macmillan) starts solidly at No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

The Light of Days by Judy Batalion (William Morrow: HarperCollins) shines at No. 5 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

The God Equation by Michio Kaku (Doubleday) rises to No. 7 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Philip Roth: The Biography by Blake Bailey (Norton) debuts at No. 12 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Fault Lines by Voddie T. Baucham Jr. (Salem Books: Simon & Schuster) scores No. 7 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Woman Evolve by Sarah Jakes Roberts climbs to No. 10 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Beautiful Things: A Memoir by Hunter Biden (Gallery: S. & S.) relishes No. 14 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Reviews

The NYT reviews Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry by Soyica Diggs Colbert (Yale): “Colbert’s study is loving, lavishly detailed, repetitive and a little stilted in the telling.”

The Guardian reviews A Lonely Man by Chris Power (FSG: Macmillan): “A Lonely Man never asks us to choose which lonely man is the loneliest, but clearly this is a book about masculine solipsism, and astute readers will already have gleaned that we have three candidates for the eponymous role.” Also, The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness by Suzanne O’Sullivan (Pantheon: Random House): “O’Sullivan’s message is that these disorders are genuine and serious and that they can be alleviated when the psychological and social causes are addressed.”

The LA Times reviews Antiquities by Cynthia Ozick (Knopf): “Age, we want to imagine, is what happens if we are lucky. But the reality is more complex. That is both the subject and the subtext of this novella, which is most resonant, perhaps, in how it never looks away from the slow but steady disintegration that awaits.”

Electric Lit reviews Are You Enjoying? (Knopf) by Mira Sethi: “At the very moment of entering one of Sethi’s stories, you find yourself dealing with the aftershocks of events in that world. But because life must be lived and won, you instantly plunge ahead. You are aware of other happenings in your peripheral vision, but you put these aside—for now. That is a blueprint for decimating the odds, at least for a while.”

Book Marks picks five reviews for the week.

Briefly Noted

Entertainment Weekly writes about the “Bridgerton effect” on the romance genre. Also, a tour announcement for Jhumpa Lahiri’s Whereabouts (Knopf; LJ starred review).

USA Today announces an Oct 13 release of the illustrated biography First Family: The Bidens.

LitHub reports Hanya Yanagihara’s newest novel The Paradise (Doubleday) to come out on January 11, 2022. The Cut features an interview with the author.

Questlove to release new book Music Is History (ABRAMS) on October 12, 2021. Kirkus Reviews reports.

New York Public Library’s World Literature Festival selects English-language books from the Caribbean.

The Root shares newly released books that could help readers heal from trauma.

Tor.com highlights 5 SFF Subgenres for Fans of True Crime and Five Books That Feature Lost, Missing, and Forgotten Gods. Also, a cover reveal for Clean Air by Sarah Blake (Algonquin Books: Workman).

The Guardian lists top 10 books about revenge.

People features an article with Karen Tumulty, author of The Triumph of Nancy Reagan (S. & S) on an “overdue reassessment” of the former first lady. Also, Jessica Lahey speaks about how her book The Addiction Inoculation (Harper) teaches parents how to steer their children away from addiction.

Guernica interviews Margaret Coker, author of The Spymaster of Baghdad (Dey St.) on how spying helped save a city.

Salon discusses The Thing About Florida (University Press of Florida) with author Tyler Gillespie on understanding his home state in a new light.

The Rumpus talks with Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing (Vintage: Random House; LJ starred review) author Lauren Hough on how a collection of experiences and memories influenced her writing.

Shonaland discusses author Morgan Jerkins’s first novel Caul Baby (Harper) about how her nonfiction writing contributed to her newly released book.

Electric Lit interviews author Anjali Enjeti on her collection Southbound: Essays on Identity, Inheritance, and Social Change (University of Georgia Press) on how she created social change from her personal experiences.

The Bookseller reports about an early release of Prince Philip’s Century  by Robert Jobson (Ad Lib).

Gizmodo has a cover reveal of Far From the Light of Heaven by Arthur C. Clarke Award winning author Tade Thompson (Orbit: Hatchett).

Authors on Air

NPR’s Fresh Air interviews Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Doubleday) about the US opioid crisis and Purdue Pharma, owned by the Sackler family.

Deadline breaks news on an adaptation of Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens (G.P. Putnam’s Sons).

Jessica Bruder answers questions about her book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century (W. W. Norton; LJ starred review) on PBS NewsHour’s "Now Read This."

Julianne Moore stars in J.J. Abrams production of Lisey’s Story, based on the book by Stephen King. Vanity Fair reports.

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