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Awards News & Book Bans

Celeste Mohammed wins the 2022 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature for Pleasantview (Ig Publishing).

The 2022 Triangle Award winners are announced.

Lit Hub reports on banned books in Idaho.

New Title Bestsellers

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

Fiction

Book Lovers by Emily Henry (Berkley; LJ starred review) starts at No. 1 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

22 Seconds by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown and Co.) clocks No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 2 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Book of Night by Holly Black (Tor: Macmillan) opens at No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

The Homewreckers by Mary Kay Andrews (St. Martin’s) debuts at No. 5 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 14 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt (Ecco; LJ starred review) shines at No. 15 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Nonfiction

Killing the Killers: The Secret War Against Terrorists by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard (St. Martin’s) begins at No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list and No. 3 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America's Future by Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns (S. & S.) climbs to No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list and No. 6 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Out of the Corner by Jennifer Grey (Ballantine) comes out at No. 5 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Revealing Revelation by Amir Tsarfati (Harvest) debuts at No. 5 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Anna: The Biography by Amy Odell (Gallery) opens at No. 11 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Reviews

The Washington Post reviews The Lioness by Chris Bohjalian (Doubleday; LJ starred review): “the getting is violently good. Pulled in by the promise of thrills or the guarantee of glamour, readers will stay for the game of survivor(s), and finish the book as satisfied as a fat cat in the Serengeti."

NYT reviews You Have a Friend in 10A: Stories by Maggie Shipstead (Knopf; LJ starred review): "There is a generous spirit beneath Shipstead’s controlled, sometimes finicky style, but her most immersive stories are the ones that seem to escape her."

NPR has two short reviews about “journeys toward empowerment” including: Fly Girl by Ann Hood (Norton) and The Great Stewardess Rebellion: How Women Launched a Workplace Revolution at 30,000 Feet by Nell McShane Wulhart (Doubleday: LJ starred review).

Locus Magazine reviews The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake (Tor): “a high-drama escape whose pages want to be compulsively turned.”

Tor.com reviews Last Exit by Max Gladstone (Tor: Macmillan): “A novel of hope glimmering in the dark heart of the world we’re fighting to save, Gladstone reminds us: it’s dangerous to go alone. That with those we love holding us up, flaws and all, we can make it to the crossroads. And together, we can change our world for the better.” Also, Aspects by John M. Ford (Tor: Macmillan): “John M. Ford did not live to give his readers the novel he’d almost finished, much less the series that he had planned. But he gave us a world, a world of teeming cities and crumbling castles, of dirt roads and ironways, of political intrigue and supernatural mystery. And he populated that world with believably flawed and sympathetic people. Many complete books accomplish far less. Aspects is an unexpected gift.”

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

Briefly Noted

Selma Blair talks about her book, Mean Baby (Knopf), and the life events that she recounts within it with The Hollywood Reporter. Blair also answers the NYT's By the Book Questionnaire.

Also in The Hollywood Reporter, Geena Davis will be coming out with a memoir in the fall, Dying of Politeness (HarperOne), exploring “her modeling career and candid accounts” of her films. Plus, Henry Winkler is working on a memoir for 2024 with Celadon Books. 

USA Today explores the best sellers list.

NYT interviews Martha Wainwright, Stories I Might Regret Telling You: A Memoir (Hachette), about her book and her famous family. Also, Keanon Lowe, author of Hometown Victory: A Coach's Story of Football, Fate, and Coming Home (Flatiron: Macmillan), talks about the miraculous timing of stopping a school shooting.

NYT's Critic's Notebook has an article exploring books that have defined liberalism featuring Francis Fukuyama's newest, Liberalism and Its Discontents (Farrar; LJ starred review).

Tor.com shares an excerpt of A Mirror Mended by Alix E. Harrow (Tor.com: Macmillan). And, a cover reveal for Lost in the Moment and Found by Seanan McGuire (Tor.com: Macmillan).

Fans of Bram Stoker’s Dracula can be emailed parts of this novel, as covered by Lit Hub. 

Authors on Air

Jim Shepard, author of Phase Six (Knopf), talks about “why the COVID pandemic might only be phase one in the destruction of the world” with Andrew Keen for the Keen On podcast.

Brad Listi chats with Steve Almond, Be Brief and Tell Them Everything (Ig), about “resisting the siren call of the static.”

Michelle Hart, We Do What We Do in the Dark (Riverhead), discusses incorporating the concept of shame in her writing on The Maris Review podcast.

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