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Awards News & July Reads

Ruth Ozeki has won the 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction for The Book of Form and Emptiness (Viking; LJ starred review).

The National Endowment for the Arts announces the 2022-2023 Big Read Communities via press release.

LibraryReads has released their July 2022 list. 

Poets & Writers features First Fiction 2022 and starts with an interview with Leila Mottley, author of Nightcrawling (Knopf; LJ starred review). 

Michael Dirda of The Washington Post shares his summer reading list.

Poets & Writers lists the first lines of “New and Noteworthy Books” and notable anthologies.

NYT provides "8 Audiobooks to Listen to Now."

New Title Bestsellers

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

Fiction

Tom Clancy: Zero Hour by Don Bentley (Putnam) clocks in at No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 9 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Chainsaw Man, Vol. 11 by Tatsuki Fukimoto (VIZ) cuts to No. 2 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Counterfeit by Kirstin Chen (Morrow) starts at No. 5 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

The Omega Factor by Steve Berry (Grand Central) debuts at No. 6 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 12 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley (Knopf; LJ starred review) climbs to No. 8 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Nonfiction

James Patterson by James Patterson by James Patterson (Little, Brown) begins at No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list and No. 14 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Battling the Big Lie by Dan Pfeiffer (Twelve: Grand Central) slices to No. 5 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Scars and Stripes by Tim Kennedy and Nick Palmisciano (Atria) lands No. 7 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

The Pope at War by David I. Kertzer (Random) secures No. 11 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon’s Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I by Lindsey Fitzharris (Farrar) cuts to No. 13 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Reviews

Locus Magazine reviews My Volcano by John Elizabeth Stintzi (Two Dollar Radio): “As My Volcano unfurls outward, growing more surreal and bizarre, leading to eruptions both figurative and literal, it becomes a story about our struggle to connect with those we love and the planet we seem hellbent on destroying.”

The Los Angeles Times reviews Ghost Lover by Lisa Taddeo (Avid Reader Pr.: S. & S.): “Often people (and societies and systems) stay the same. Taddeo conveys the tragedy of this stagnation: messy, increasingly destructive, often very sad.”

Book Marks has the five reviews to read for the week.

Briefly Noted

Poets & Writers profiles Raquel Gutiérrez, Brown Neon (Coffee House Pr.) for Literary MagNet. Also, an interview with Kali Fajardo-Anstine, author of Woman of Light (One World).

Daniel Paisner explores all of the titles he has ghostwritten for and how they influenced his fiction book, Balloon Dog (Koehler), for The Millions.

NYT talks to Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah about how her book The Sex Lives of African Women (Astra) "explores the ways African women have sought freedom, pleasure and healing through their sexual experiences."

Geraldine Brooks, Horse (Viking; LJ starred review), answers the NYT's By the Book questionnaire.

USA Today covers the best seller's list for the week including recent news about James Patterson.

NYT's Inside the Best-Seller List explores David Sedaris' newest book Happy-Go-Lucky (Little, Brown; LJ starred review) and his policy around thank you notes.

NPD's latest book scan indicates that “LGBTQ fiction sales are surging in the U.S.”

Author Faith Hunter has issued an apology for behavior at JordanCon 2022, as reported by Locus Magazine. 

Tor.com has an excerpt from Ordinary Monsters by J. M. Miro (Flatiron; LJ starred review).

NYT highlights the "only surviving manuscript" of Paradise Lost by John Milton.

Authors on Air

NPR’s Fresh Air interviews Candice Millard about her book River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile (Doubleday; LJ starred review).

Sloane Crosley speaks about using humor in her book Cult Classic (MCD) on the Otherppl podcast.

Jhumpa Lahiri, Translating Myself and Others (Princeton Univ. Pr.), discusses “preserving the multiplicity of language” with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds podcast.

LeVar Burton speaks to Shadow and Act about a new Reading Rainbow documentary Butterfly In The Sky and how it made him a better man.

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