Want to get the latest book news delivered to your inbox each day? Sign up for our daily Book Pulse newsletter.

Award News & Banned Books

The 2022 Firecracker Awards finalists are announced.

Lit Hub reports on a banned book subscription service called Getting the Banned Back Together. 

New Title Bestsellers

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

Fiction

The Summer Place by Jennifer Weiner (Atria) heats up to No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 4 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

The Lioness by Chris Bohjalian (Doubleday; LJ starred review) climbs to No. 6 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Star Wars: Brotherhood by Mike Chen (Del Rey) shines at No. 11 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

The Ravaged by Norman Reedus with Frank Bill (Blackstone) starts at No. 15 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Finding Monica by Susan Stoker (Stoker Aces) debuts at No. 15 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Nonfiction

A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times by Mark T. Esper (Morrow) begins at No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going by Vaclav Smil (Viking) starts at No. 7 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Hearts Touched With Fire: How Great Leaders Are Made by David Gergen (S. & S.) shines at No. 9 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Back to the Prairie: A Home Remade, A Life Rediscovered by Melissa Gilbert (Gallery) uncovers No. 10 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Ali’s Well That Ends Well: Tales of Desperation and a Little Inspiration by Ali Wentworth (Harper) debuts at No. 11 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Reviews

NYT reviews Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters by Serhii Plokhy (Norton): “The global scope of such dire subject matter means that the experience of reading this book is a formidable exercise in cumulative disillusionment.”

The Washington Post reviews Just Go Down to the Road: A Memoir of Trouble and Travel by James Campbell (Paul Dry): “an engrossing account of a young man discovering what he wants to do with his life.” Also, The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap by Stephanie Coontz (Basic: Hachette): “deeply researched and packed with evidence-based zingers. It’s unlikely that Coontz’s insights will be quoted in scripty type on chalkboards or on Instagram, but they’ll certainly get your attention.”

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

Briefly Noted

Ann Leary, The Foundling (Scribner: S. & S.), fills out the NYT's By the Book Questionnaire. 

Colton Haynes discusses his new memoir Miss Memory Lane (Atria; LJ starred review) and “retracing his rocky path from Abercrombie ads to TV stardon to rehab.”

NYT's Inside the Best-Seller List features Jessi Klein's I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood (Harper), exploring "the joys and travails of life with a small child."

USA Today explores the week's best sellers. 

Lit Hub has a cover reveal for Inciting Joy by Ross Gay (Algonquin). 

Tor.com explores “Five Characters Who Make the Most of Minor Superpowers.”

Authors on Air

Stephanie Foo talks about her new book, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma (Ballantine; LJ starred review) and “the transformative power of Google Doc therapy” on the Thresholds podcast.

Phil Klay, author of Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War (Penguin Pr.), discusses "rebuidling the American citizen in an age of endless, invisible war" with Andrew Keen on the Keen On podcast.  

Dr. Sunita Puri, That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour (Viking), speaks to Roxanne Coady about "why a life well lived in a good death" on Just the Right Book podcast. 

Annie Hartnett chats about "what living in a cemetery meant to her novel" Unlikely Animals (Ballantine) on The Maris Review podcast. 

Daniel Sherrell reads excerpts from his book Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World (Penguin Pr.; LJ starred review) for the Storybound podcast.

Margalit Fox’s The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History (Random) is being adapted for film with Thunder Road, according to Deadline.

Want to get the latest book news delivered to your inbox each day? Sign up for our daily Book Pulse newsletter.