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New Title Bestsellers

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

Fiction

The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman (Viking: Penguin) ascends to No. 1 on both the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia (Flatiron) starts at No. 13 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

The Red Book by James Patterson & David Ellis (Little, Brown) debuts at No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 6 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Rule of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo (Imprint: Macmillan) howls in at No. 7 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Sunflower Sisters by Martha Hall Kelly (Ballantine) shines at No. 10 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Nonfiction

The Beauty of Living Twice by Sharon Stone (Knopf) charms at No. 4 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Faucian Bargain: The Most Powerful and Dangerous Bureaucrat in American History by Steve Deace an Todd Erzen (Post Hill Press) parleys to No. 4 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

The Women of the Bible Speak (Broadside Books: HarperCollins Christian Publishing) starts at No. 3 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Reviews

The NYT reviews Good Company by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney (Ecco): “with its pre-scouted locations and fully rendered characters looking for things to do, is a promising piece of I.P. Sweeney may or may not have screenwriting ambitions, but I’d love to see her do something with it.” Also, Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice 1967–1975 (Algonquin; LJ Starred Review): “Because the sound Thompson created with Fairport was rooted in centuries-old songs, he isn’t captive to ’60s clichés; and because British electric folk is off the classic-rock grid — as he ruefully observes, “The niche remained a niche” — the book’s period accent makes it feel fresh and exploratory.”

NPR reviews Gold Diggers by Sanjena Sathian (Penguin Press): “One of the wonderful things about Sathian's writing is how imperfect she allows Neil to be: he can be shallow, vain, awkward, and selfish. Yet it's so easy to root for him, because he's just so terribly alive.”  Also, Peaces by Helen Oyeyemi (Riverhead): “Oyeyemi's storytelling skills, keen observations, and the beautiful way in which she crafts unique, uncanny characters save this from being a befuddling mystery with too much going on.”

The Seattle Times reviews Under the Wave at Waimea, by Paul Theroux (Houghton Harcourt): "This probing tale of a man who’s come undone and the strong, stark woman who thinks she can reassemble him is one of Theroux’s best novels.”

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

Briefly Noted

EarlyWord’s April GalleyChat is posted.

S. & S. plans to publish Mike Pence’s autobiography. Deadline reports he now has a two-book deal, with the first due in 2023. People also has details.

The April Earphones Awards are out from AudioFile.

The April Loan Stars books are also announced.

Granta offers "The Best Of Young Spanish-Language Novelists 2."

Oprah Daily picks “24 Best Books About Summer Romance That Will Whisk You Away.”

Vulture selects “The Best Comedy Books of 2021 (So Far).”

The Guardian picks “Top 10 homecomings in fiction.”

Tor.com has “All the New Science Fiction Books Arriving in April.” Also, “Jo Walton’s Reading List: March 2021.”

The Washington Post offers what to read in April beyond the bestseller lists.

Book Page unveils its April features on Book Clubs, Lifestyles, Cozies, “Best of the bestsellers,” “New arrivals, new love, bad timing,” “Take a bird’s-eye view of Earth Day,” “Glimmers of hope during dark times,”and a “Behind the Book” on “Cholera in the time of COVID-19.”

Vulture writes “Torrey Peters Addresses Transphobic Backlash Over Women’s Prize Nomination.” The Guardian also has coverage, as does the L.A. Times.

LItHub has "This Is Who We Are: Gish Jen and Peter Ho Davies on the Long History of Anti-Asian Racism in the US."

CrimeReads interviews Marilyn Stasio.

The L.A. Times has an interview with Martha S. Jones, Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All (Basica: Hachette; LJ starred review). Also, in interview with Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain (Grove; LJ starred review).

House Beautiful excerpts Justina Blakeney’s Jungalow: Decorate Wild: The Life and Style Guide (Abrams). The L.A. Times also has coverage.

Parade talks with Patti Callahan Henry, Reunion Beach: Stories Inspired by Dorothea Benton Frank (William Morrow).

People has more on Brandi Carlile, Broken Horses (Crown). Also, there are pieces on Erin French, Finding Freedom: A Cook's Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch (Celadon Books: Macmillan; LJ starred review) and on Eartha & Kitt: A Daughter's Love Story in Black and White by Kitt Shapiro, with Patricia Levy (Pegasus: S. & S.). Also, a piece on The Zen Mama Guide to Finding Your Rhythm in Pregnancy, Birth, and Beyond by Teresa Palmer, Sarah Wright Olsen (HarperHorizon).

NPR interviews Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves (Imprint: Macmillan).

The NYT asks Luke Epplin, Our Team: The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series That Changed Baseball (Flatiron), “5 Things About Your Book.” Amanda Gorman features in the “Inside the List” column with The Hill We Climb (Viking: Penguin). Vogue has a cover feature on Gorman.

Min Jin Lee writes about what reading has taught her about “Her Immigrant World” for the NYT.

Worldcon moves to December. Tor.com has some details.

Authors on Air

Variety reports that there is cast news for the Apple TV+ adaptation of Sarah Perry’s The Essex Serpent.

Amazon is adapting The Peripheral by William Gibson. The Demon of Brownsville Road by Bob Cranmer and Erica Manfred is headed to the movies. Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France by Leonie Frieda is getting adapted as The Serpent Queen for a Starz series. Deadline has details.

PBS NewsHour interviews Jonathan Alter, His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life (S. & S.; LJ starred review).

NPR’s Fresh Air interviews Reem Kassis, The Arabesque Table: Contemporary Recipes from the Arab World (Phaidon).

NPR’s All Things Considered interviews Morgan Jerkins, Caul Baby (Harper). LitHub also has coverage.

A trailer is out for Jupiter’s Legacy, based on graphic novel by Mark Millar and Frank Quitely. A trailer is also out for Monster, the Netflix adaptation of the Walter Dean Myers novel.

Hunter Biden, Beautiful Things: A Memoir (Gallery: S. & S.), will be on with Jimmy Kimmel tonight.

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