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Awards & Book News

Finalists for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award are revealed. CBC has coverage.

Finalists are announced for the Trillium Book Awards for writers from Ontario, Canada. CBC has the news.

Margaret Atwood wins the Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award. CBC has coverage.

New Title Bestsellers

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

Fiction

25 Alive by James Patterson & Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown) surges to No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list and No. 6 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

King of Envy by Ana Huang (Bloom) reigns over No. 2 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Enigma by RuNyx (Bramble) finds No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list and No. 8 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

A Mind of Her Own by Danielle Steel (Delacorte) commands No. 4 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

The Amalfi Curse by Sarah Penner (Park Row) ensnares No. 8 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

I’m Here To Kill You: Smoke Jensen and the Taming of the West by William W. Johnstone & J.A. Johnstone (Pinnacle) hauls in No. 9 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Dragon Ball Super, Vol. 23 by Akira Toriyama, illus. by Toyotarou (VIZ Media) snags No. 10 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Nonfiction

The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777–1780 by Rick Atkinson (Crown; LJ starred review) fights its way to No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

My Next Breath: A Memoir by Jeremy Renner (Flatiron) reaches No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Uptown Girl: A Memoir by Christie Brinkley with Sarah Toland (Harper Influence) rises to No. 4 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

The Bible Says So: What We Get Right (and Wrong) About Scripture’s Most Controversial Issues by Dan McClellan (St. Martin’s Essentials) achieves No. 7 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

From Panic to Profit: Uncover Value, Boost Revenue, and Grow Your Business with the 80/20 Principle by Bill Canady (Wiley) is boosted to No. 7 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

The Greatest Comeback Ever: Inside Trump’s Big Beautiful Campaign by Joe Concha (Broadside) holds No. 8 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list, though some retailers report receiving bulk orders.

SNAFU: The Definitive Guide to History’s Greatest Screwups by Ed Helms (Grand Central) goes to No. 10 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Poets Square: A Memoir in Thirty Cats by Courtney Gustafson (Crown) climbs to No. 11 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

This American Woman: A One-in-a-Billion Memoir by Zarna Garg (Ballantine) dashes to No. 12 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Hey Dad…: Everything You Should’ve Learned About Life (But Didn’t) by Rob J. Finlay (Post Hill) gets No. 12 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World by William Dalrymple (Bloomsbury) wends its way to No. 15 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Odyssey Moscow: One American’s Journey from Russia Optimist to Prisoner of the State by Michael Calvey (The History Pr.) receives No. 15 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Reviews

NYT reviews Second Life: Having a Child in the Digital Age by Amanda Hess (Doubleday): “A strength of Second Life is how, with a reporter’s gimlet eye, Hess lenses out from her personal experience.”

Washington Post reviews Spitfires: The American Women Who Flew in the Face of Danger During World War II by Becky Aikman (Bloomsbury): “The surge of discussion about women in the military, a topic that hasn’t been particularly prevalent in recent years, makes the publication of [Spitfires] all the more timely.”

LA Times reviews Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves by Sophie Gilbert (Penguin Pr.) and Bad Friend: How Women Revolutionized Modern Friendship by Tiffany Watt Smith (Celadon): “After reading Girl on Girl, I felt almost sticky with proxy humiliation, as Gilbert evokes example after example of female abasement in pop culture. Watt Smith’s Bad Friend proved a much-needed curative. Watt Smith deftly takes us across time and space to show how female bonding has often weathered cultural backlash to emerge intact, albeit sometimes changed, on the other side.”

USA Today reviews The Art of Winning: Lessons from My Life in Football by Bill Belichick (Avid Reader/S. & S.): “The writing style is similar to Belichick’s staccato speech pattern. Sentences are normally brief. Most of the substance is instruction. Some of it is rehashing. He’ll say it’s setting the record straight—sure, but it’s also settling the score.”

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

Briefly Noted

José Andrés, author of Change the Recipe: Because You Can’t Build a Better World Without Breaking Some Eggs (Ecco), answers NYT’s “By the Book” questionnaire.

NYT interviews Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach, and Amanda Doyle, hosts of the podcast We Can Do Hard Things and authors of We Can Do Hard Things: Answers to Life’s 20 Questions (Dial).

NPR has a Q&A with Casey Johnston, author of A Physical Education: How I Escaped Diet Culture and Gained the Power of Lifting (Grand Central).

NYT suggests recent releases “for every type of mom” and has Carley Fortune recommending romances “whose high stakes and buried traumas make their love stories all the more satisfying.”

Kirkus gathers the 20 “most addictive” books of 2025 so far.

CrimeReads highlights museum-set mysteries and six of the best spy novels by Len Deighton.

Reactor rounds up all the new science fiction books arriving in May.

Authors on Air

Kirkus’s Fully Booked podcast features Brendan Slocumb, author of The Dark Maestro (Doubleday; LJ starred review).

Today, NPR’s Fresh Air will interview Amanda Hess, author of Second Life: Having a Child in the Digital Age (Doubleday).

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

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