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Awards & Book News

Winners of the Society of Authors Translation Prize are revealed; The Bookseller has coverage.

Eve Hill-Agnus’s translation of Mariette Navarro’s Ultramarine (Deep Vellum) wins an Albertine Translation Prize.

A shortlist is announced for the Athenaeum Literary Award for books from and about Philadelphia, Shelf Awareness reports.

Winners of the Westminster Book Awards are announced.

LitHub talks to Authors Against Book Bans member Maggie Tokuda-Hall about how the organization successfully prevented a book ban in a Florida school district.

Publishers Weekly examines the industry impacts of Diamond Comic Distributors’ Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing.

UK publisher Faber has launched a U.S. division, Publishers Weekly reports.

New Title Bestsellers

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

Fiction

Deep End by Ali Hazelwood (Berkley) jumps in at No. 1 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Bonded in Death by J.D. Robb (St. Martin’s) clinches No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list and No. 12 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

The Bones Beneath My Skin by TJ Klune (Tor; LJ starred review) surges to No. 6 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

Last Twilight in Paris by Pam Jenoff (Park Row) shines at No. 9 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

This Is a Love Story by Jessica Soffer (Dutton) grabs No. 10 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

Open Season by Jonathan Kellerman (Ballantine) nabs No. 14 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

Nonfiction

Source Code: My Beginnings by Bill Gates (Knopf) begins at No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list and No. 10 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer by Rick Steves (Rick Steves) journeys to No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Memorial Days: A Memoir by Geraldine Brooks (Viking) gets No. 5 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide To Design Your Dream Life by Sahil Bloom (Ballantine) rises to No. 6 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Food for Thought: Essays and Ruminations by Alton Brown (Gallery) serves up No. 7 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Unicorn Team: The Nine Leadership Types You Need To Launch Your Big Ideas with Speed and Success by Jen Kem (Hay House Business) launches at No. 9 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Reviews

Washington Post reviews Live Fast by Brigitte Giraud, tr. by Cory Stockwell (Ecco): “In her imagining of alternate scenarios that would have resulted in Claude’s not being on the [motorcycle] that afternoon…Giraud flawlessly depicts the depths of guilt-rich obsession to which the grieving soul sinks, the battered heart and wearied mind fastening to minutiae in an attempt to make sense of the ruin that ensues from the random.”

The Guardian reviews Perspectives by Laurent Binet, tr. by Sam Taylor (Farrar): “Perhaps those [early critics] were simply miffed that Binet had taken time out to write an entertainment (as Graham Greene called those too‑thrilling books of his he didn’t consider ‘novels’), but fans of the early Arturo Pérez-Reverte or Gilbert Adair should experience no such disappointments. Primarily, Perspectives aims, modestly and with thorough success, to be a dazzling romp.”

LA Times reviews Theory & Practice by Michelle de Kretser (Catapult): “In many ways, Theory & Practice is like a coming-of-age novel or perhaps a coming-to-writing novel, and de Kretser is a beautifully sly writer.”

LitHub has “Five Book Reviews You Need To Read This Week.”

Briefly Noted

Publishers Weekly speaks with Alex Krokus, creator of the new comic collection Loud & Smart & in Color (Silver Sprocket).

LitHub interviews Brigitte Giraud, author of Live Fast, tr. by Cory Stockwell (Ecco).

Washington Post talks to Joe Piscopo, author of Average Joe: The Memoirs of a Blue-Collar Entertainer, written with Walter Scott Lamb (Forefront).

Sarah Byam and Tim Sale’s classic comic Billi 99 (Clover) has returned to print after 34 years, Publishers Weekly reports.

Novelist Amy Tan’s papers will be donated to University of California, Berkeley, instead of being destroyed as she originally planned, NYT reports.

A new piece in the NYT Magazine examines the work of Janet Malcolm.

CrimeReads explores mystery as a “respite for the anxious mind.”

NYT has a quiz for finding one’s next romance read.

LA Times recommends five essential Puerto Rican history reads.

CrimeReads rounds up “10 Modern Takes on Traditional Latin American Folktales,” while Reactor identifies six savvy retellings of the fairy tale “The Goose Girl.”

USA Today offers eight read-alikes for the new “Red Rising” book.

Authors on Air

Kirkus’s Fully Booked podcast talks to Paul Lisicky, author of Song So Wild and Blue: A Life with the Music of Joni Mitchell (HarperOne).

Shelf Awareness rounds up the schedule for this weekend’s Book TV on C-SPAN 2.

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