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Awards & Buzzy Book News

The 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction longlist is announced.

The 2022 PEN Presents shortlist is announced; a new award for sample translations.

DPLA announces, via press release, the availability of new e-book January 6th on the Record, edited by Cynthia Bower. DPLA pubications can be accessed here.

Entertainment Weekly shares the “Best New Books of Fall 2022: Fiction Preview.”

The Washington Post reintroduces its books section “Book World.”

Good Morning America announces a book tour for Michelle Obama’s newest title, The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times (Crown). People also covers this news.

Paris Review co-founder John Train has passed away at 94. Also, philosopher Saul Kripke has died at 81. NYT has more on their lives and contributions.

New Title Bestsellers

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

Fiction

The Butcher and the Wren by Alaina Urquhart (Zando: Ingram) cuts to No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 3 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Oath of Loyalty by Vince Flynn and Kyle Mills (Atria/Emily Bestler Books) takes No. 2 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list and No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom; LJ starred review) rises to No. 4 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 15 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Blowback by James Patterson and Brendan DuBois (Little, Brown) hits No. 5 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 9 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Lessons by Ian McEwan (Knopf) plays to No. 14 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

The Ballad of Never After by Stephanie Garber (Flatiron) begins at No. 14 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Nonfiction

What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe (Riverhead) debuts at No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list and No. 11 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Holding the Line: Inside the Nation’s Preeminent US Attorney’s Office and Its Battle with the Trump Justice Department by Geoffrey Berman (Penguin) carries No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships by Nina Totenberg (S. & S.) debuts at No. 4 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture by Gabor Maté with Daniel Maté (Avery) starts at No. 5 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Like a Rolling Stone: A Memoir by Jann S. Wenner (Little, Brown; LJ starred review) rocks No. 6 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Profiles in Ignorance: How America’s Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber by Andy Borowitz (Avid Reader; LJ starred review) strikes No. 7 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II by Buzz Bissinger (Harper: HarperCollins; LJ starred review) scores No. 8 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy by David Corn (Twelve: Hachette) starts at No. 9 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

The Simply Happy Cookbook: 100-Plus Recipes to Take the Stress Out of Cooking by Steve Doocy and Kathy Doocy (William Morrow Cookbooks) slices to No. 10 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis’ Fortress Prison by Ben Macintyre (Crown) climbs to No. 12 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be by Becky Kennedy (Harper Wave) rises to No. 13 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

USA Today explores the week's best seller lists.

Reviews

The Washington Post reviews The Furrows: An Elegy by Namwali Serpell (Hogarth): "For all the mysteries that spin out from Wayne’s disappearance and probable death, the novel is most interested in the riddle of grief: What happens to us — where do we go — when someone we love dies? And how do we make it back?" And, The Fight of Our Lives: My Time With Zelenskyy, Ukraine's Battle for Democracy, and What It Means for the World by Iuliia Mendel (Atria): "best read as a subjective account of the Zelensky administration rather than an authoritative history." Also, Solito by Javier Zamora (Hogarth): "more than a story about immigration, it is a coming-of-age tale about a 9-year-old whose journey toward maturity — another mythic land — was compressed into one season."Plus, three long reviews on books about the U.S. - China rivalry including Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism by Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way (Princeton), Xi Jinping: The Most Powerful Man in the World by Stefan Aust and Adrian Geiges (Polity: Wiley), and Surveillance State: Inside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control by Josh Chin and Liza Lin (St. Martin’s).

NYT reviews The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes (Metropolitan: Macmillan): “Figes aims in this primer to explain how central narratives used to justify the current leadership have been shaped and exploited over centuries.” Also, Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng (Penguin Pr.; LJ starred review): "a classic tale of the hero’s journey, said hero young enough to make the trip from innocence to experience with surprisingly little bitterness directed toward the parent who has abandoned him." Plus, there is a short list of three books on “consumerism and catastrophe” including Self-Portrait With Ghost: Short Stories by Meng Jin (Mariner), Tomorrow in Shanghai: Stories by May-lee Chai (Blair: Consortium Book Sales), A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On trans. by Bonnie S. McDougall (Columbia University). 

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

Briefly Noted

Nada Alic talks about what inspired her story collection Bad Thoughts: Stories (Vintage), “super sattva syndrome, the magic of mundanity, how to optimize purgatory, and much more” in an interview with The Millions.

Richard Osman, author of The Bullet That Missed: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery (Pamela Dorman: Viking), discusses “how he gets in character, where he hides his clues - and the murder story in his family history” with The Washington Post. 

The Los Angeles Times talks to Orlando Figes, The Story of Russia (Metropolitan: Macmillan), about Putin’s reasons for going to war and whether Ukraine can win. 

Tor.com has a cover reveal for Martha Wells’ Witch King (Tor.com: Macmillan). 

Andrew Sean Greer, Less Is Lost (Little, Brown), shares what he is reading now with Lit Hub's Annotated Nightstand. Also, he answers the NYT's By the Book Questionnaire.

NYT's Inside the Best-Seller List profiles Deanna Raybourn, author of Killers of a Certain Age (Berkley; LJ starred review), who "puts power in the hands of older women."

The Hollywood Reporter shares a list of “timely books” to read now.

CrimeReads lists "Five Relationship-Driven Mysteries."

Authors on Air

Edward Enninful, A Visible Man (Penguin Pr.), speaks to Tonya Mosley on NPR’s Fresh Air about his career with British Vogue and why he wants it to “reflect the world he sees.”

Yiyun Li, author of The Book of Goose (Farrar), discusses "complicated friendships real and imagined" on the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast.

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