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Awards News & May Reads

Lea Ypi wins the 2022 RSL Ondaajte Prize for Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History (Norton). 

Dolly Parton is inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. PBS has more. 

NYT shares a reading list "as the Supreme Court weighs Roe vs. Wade" and "Ten Books to Understand the Abortion Debate in the United States."

CrimeReads lists “The Best New Crime Fiction” for May.

Tor.com shares “All the New Science Fiction Books Arriving in May!”

New Title Bestsellers

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

Fiction

City on Fire by Don Winslow (Morrow; LJ starred review) rises to No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 11 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

The Good Left Undone by Adriana Trigiani (Dutton; LJ starred review) begins at No. 4 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Shadow Fire by Christine Feehan (Berkley) crackles at No. 4 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

The Baxters by Karen Kingsbury (Atria) debuts at No. 12 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel (Redhook) starts at No. 14 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Immortal Rising by Lynsay Sands (Avon) arrives at No. 15 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Nonfiction

Finding Me by Viola Davis (HarperOne) debuts at No. 1 on both the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list and on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor--the Truth and the Turmoil by Tina Brown (Crown) finds No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list and No. 3 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases by Paul Holes (Celadon) warms to No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

I’ll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood by Jessi Klein (Harper) arrives at No. 5 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Just Tyrus by Tyrus (Post Hill Press) starts at No. 7 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list and No. 10 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

The War on the West by Douglas Murray (Broadside) begins at No. 11 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Start Without Me by Gary Janetti (Holt) launches at No. 12 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Reviews

The Washington Post reviews Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt (Ecco; LJ starred review): “an ultimately feel-good but deceptively sensitive debut about what it feels like to have love taken from you, only to find it again in the most unexpected places.”

NYT reviews La Nijinska: Choreographer of the Modern by Lynn Garafola (Oxford University): "Everything in Lynn Garafola’s prior life — her authorship of a major work on Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, her investigations into other ballet and modern dance companies, her years of teaching in Barnard’s eminent dance department — prepared her to accomplish this challenging task."

NPR reviews Smahtguy: The Life and Times of Barney Frank by Eric Orner (Metropolitan): “isn't just a great story, it's an enveloping visual experience crafted by a terrific artist with an amazing line. Even if you were to page through this book without looking at any of the words, it would still be a great read.”

USA Today reviews Managing Expectations: A Memoir in Essays by Minnie Driver (HarperOne), giving it a 3 out of 4 stars: "reflects an actor’s close attention to strange, exasperating, heartbreaking behavior all around her, conveyed with wit and poise."

Locus Magazine reviews Aspects by John M. Ford (Tor: Macmillan): “a shining, brilliant example of fantasy writing, nothing but pure pleasure and joy… until it tapers off into a fragmentary final chapter, the last bits of the manuscript left protruding, at least metaphorically, from Ford’s silent, gone-cold typewriter when he died suddenly in 2006.”

Lit Hub shares "5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week."

Briefly Noted

Actor Nyle DiMarco, chats about his book Deaf Utopia: A Memoir—and a Love Letter to a Way of Life, written with Robert Siebert (Morrow; LJ starred review), with Entertainment Weekly.

Minnie Driver discusses “the paradox of fame” and marriage in an interview about her new memoir Managing Expectations: A Memoir in Essays (HarperOne) with NPR.

NYT speaks to Carlo Rovelli about the themes of "black holes to Buddhism to climate change" in his book There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness: And Other Thoughts on Physics, Philosophy and the World (Riverhead). 

NYT's Inside the Best-Seller List explores the work of Janelle Monáe and her journey to The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer (Harper Voyager; LJ starred review).

Michael Dirda writes a piece on “bookstores and the literary life” for The Washington Post. 

Candice Millard, author of River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile (Doubleday; LJ starred review), fills out the NYT's By the Book Questionnaire.

FoxNews covers a story about Double Talkin’ Jive: True Rock ‘n’ Roll Stories from the Drummer of Guns N’ Roses, the Cult, and Velvet Revolver by Matt Sorum (Chicago Review Press).

Tor.com shares an excerpt from The City Inside by Samit Basu (Tor.com).

Lit Hub introduces a new series The Annotated Nightstand by Diana Arterian featuring what Renee Gladman, author of a collection of stories Calamities (Wave), is reading “new and next.” Also, covering news about Zelensky: A Biography by Serhii Rudenko about the Ukrainian president.

Tor.com provides “Five Stories About Perilous Plant Life and High-Risk Gardening.”

Authors on Air

Lit Hub reports on the upcoming film adaptation of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong (Penguin Press; LJ starred review).

The Blue Castle by Lucy Maud Montgomery (Sourcebooks) will be adapted for film by Cinegryphon Entertainment, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Vauhini Vara, The Immortal King Rao (Norton), chats with Maris Kreizman about "grounding fiction with cultural touchstones" on The Maris Review podcast.

Danica Roem, author of Burn the Page: A True Story of Torching Doubts, Blazing Trails, and Igniting Change (Viking; LJ starred review), talks about "why we should judge all politicians through the prism of authenticity" on the Keen On podcast.

Roxanne Gay is featured on PBS Newshour’s Brief But Spectacular speaking about “effective ways of being heard.”

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