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Award News & May Reads

Joanna Chiu wins the 2022 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing for China Unbound: A New World Disorder (House of Anansi).

NYT reports on the thriving book business in Buenos Aires, Argentina. 

CrimeReads shares "May's Best International Fiction."

New Title Bestsellers

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

Fiction

In the Blood by Jack Carr (Atria/Emily Bestler) debuts at No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 2 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub (Riverhead) clocks in at No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Something Wilder by Christina Lauren (Gallery) starts at No. 7 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

The Island by Adrian McKinty (Little, Brown) floats to No. 12 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Razzmatazz by Christopher Moore (Morrow) shines at No. 14 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

The Lost Summers of Newport by Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White (Morrow) finds No. 15 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Nonfiction

The Office BFFs: Tales of The Office from Two Best Friends Who Were There by Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey (Dey St.) begins at No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list and No. 7 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Phil: The Rip-Roaring (and Unauthorized!) Biography of Golf’s Most Colorful Superstar by Alan Shipnuck (Avid Reader Pr./S. & S.) swings to No. 4 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list and No. 9 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile by Candice Millard (Doubleday; LJ starred review) reaches No. 5 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Mean Baby by Selma Blair (Knopf) debuts at No. 6 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story by Simu Liu (Morrow; LJ starred review) starts at No. 8 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Mordenkainen Presents: Monster of the Multiverse (Dungeons & Dragons Book) by Wizards RPG Team (Wizards of the Coast: Penguin Random House) roars to No. 10 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Endure: How to Work Hard, Outlast, and Keep Hammering by Cameron Hanes (St. Martin’s) holds No. 13 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Created Equal: The Painful Past, Confusing Present, and Hopeful Future of Race in America by Ben Carson with Candy Carson (Center Street: Hachette) rises to No. 12 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

The Power of Crisis: How Three Threats - And Our Response - Will Change the World by Ian Bremmer (S. & S.) claims No. 14 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Reviews

NYT reviews A Lynching at Port Jervis: Race and Reckoning in the Gilded Age by Philip Dray (FSG): “Dray is an excellent and conscientious storyteller, taking care to alert us when the historical record is spotty or ambiguous while still offering vivid specifics wherever he can.” Also, two short reviews of books set in Nantucket and Cape Cod featuring: Hotel Nantucket by Elin Hilderbrand (Little, Brown, & Co.) and The Summer Place by Jennifer Weiner (Atria). 

Locus Magazine reviews A Mirror Mended by Alix E. Harrow (Tor.com: Macmillan): “The ingenious dual perspective that made A Spindle Splintered seem so fresh is clearly at work again in A Mirror Mended.”

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

Briefly Noted

Catherine Nichols explores the work of Elif Batuman, including the newly released Either/Or (Penguin Pr.) for Lit Hub. Batuman also answers the NYT's By the Book Questionnaire. 

Yoshihiro Togashi, author of the Hunter x Hunter (VIZ) manga series, has joined Twitter and may create new chapters after not having published in four years, according to Variety. 

Dov Forman, Lily's Promise: Holding On to Hope Through Auschwitz and Beyond—A Story for All Generations written with Lily Ebert (HarperOne), talks about "his great-grandmother's Holocaust story" with NYT's Inside the Best-Seller List. 

USA Today explores best sellers this week.

Michael Dirda from The Washington Post shares books that “emphasize interiority, encourage empathy, require thought and are meant to foster rational argument.”

Lit Hub has a "reading list of unconventional families."

Authors on Air

PBS Newshour reports on His Name is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa (Viking) as it “explores the systemic racism that contributed to his death.”

Simon Parkin, author of The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp (Scribner), discusses the events that inspired his book on the We Have Ways of Making You Talk podcast.

Oliver Sacks’ book Awakenings (VIntage) has been adapted into an opera, according to NYT.

The Nation covers a story about the return of interest in the work of Walter Tevis via the adapation of his book The Queen's Gambit (VIntage). 

Blackstone Publishing has bought the rights to The Devil to Pay: A Mobster’s Road to Perdition by Sean Scott Hicks. Deadline has more.

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