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Award News

Nicole Perlroth has won the 2021 Financial Times McKinsey & Co. Business Book of the Year for This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends (Bloomsbury: Macmillan).

New Title Bestsellers

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

Fiction

Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone by Diana Gabaldon (Delacorte) buzzes at No. 1 on both the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

The Becoming by Nora Roberts (St. Martin’s) starts at No. 2 on both the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Fear No Evil by James Patterson (Hachette) sits at No. 4 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 5 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

The Christmas Promise by Richard Paul Evans (Gallery: S. & S.) shines at No. 7 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Flying Angels by Danielle Steel (Delacorte: Penguin Random House) soars to No. 8 on on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 9 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Nonfiction

God Bless This Mess: Learning to Live and Love Through Life’s Best (and Worst) Moments by Hannah Brown (HarperCollins) cleans up No. 13 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Seller List.

Reviews

NYT reviews Flying Blind: The 737 Max Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing by Peter Robison (Doubleday; LJ starred review): “Robison’s history is complete, but at times excessive. Minor corporate dramas that took place decades ago get a bit too much attention. After the introduction, it is more than 100 pages before “Flying Blind” turns squarely to the fateful development of the Max. Once that happens, however, the narrative gains speed and hurtles toward its inevitable conclusion.”

The Washington Post Magritte: A Life by Alex Danchev (Pantheon): "The polymath Danchev is well-equipped to investigate Magritte’s singular mind. The author brings to his mission an impressive array of aesthetic, political and philosophical tools. Those are handy in explaining an artist who considered himself less a painter than a thinker whose ideas were reified in images. Never mind the brushstroke, insisted Magritte, who undersold his prodigious painterly talents. Look only at the subject." Also, Led Zeppelin: The Biography by Bob Spitz (Penguin Pr.): "As a compendium of the often brilliant music created by ravaged souls, the book works well enough, but at this point both Led Zeppelin’s fans (and critics) yearn for more."

Tor.com reviews Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tordotcom): “Instead, in showing the emotions at the heart of two characters who could have easily felt like stock types and putting each to the test, Elder Race completes the swerve and arrives at its destination with a renewed sense of purpose—and a refreshing lack of irony.”Also, Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson (Morrow): “Termination Shock is very vivid about a lot of things, and one of them is that what is good for one part of the globe may be very bad for another. The scale of the crisis is the scale of this book: world-spanning, sprawling, infuriating, and something we can’t look away from.”

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

Briefly Noted

The Millions’ A Year in Reading features an article by Gina Apostol, The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata (Soho), and a piece by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois (Harper: HarperCollins).

Nikole Hannah-Jones speaks to The Los Angeles Times about the “origins and language of” The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story with the New York Times Magazine (One World; LJ starred review).

NYT’s features Mel Brooks’ All About Me! My Remarkable Life in Show Business (Ballantine; LJ starred review). By the Book interviews Bette Midler about the 19th-century novelists that she still loves to read.

Kirthana Ramisetti, writes a piece for Lit Hub about “how watching British reality TV” helped her finish her novel, Dava Shastri's Last Day (Grand Central).

Fox News shares details from Brothers and Wives: Inside the Private Lives of William, Kate, Harry, and Meghan by Christopher Andersen (Gallery Books). Also, an interview with Kathie Lee Gifford, The Jesus I Know (HarperCollins).

Tor.com features The Relentless Moon by Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor: Macmillan) in their “Hugo Spotlight,” leading up to the announcement of the 2021 Hugo Awards. Also, an excerpt from The God of Lost Words by A.J. Hackwith (Ace: Berkely; LJ starred review) and “Four SFF ‘Best Of…’ Anthologies You Might Have Missed.”

Lit Hub’s Astrology Book Club shares “What to Read This Month, Based on Your Sign.” Also, "The 36 Best (Old) Books We Read in 2021," "New and Noteworthy Nonfiction You Should Read This December," and "47 Virtual Book Events Worth Streaming This December."

Brittle Paper gives "50 Notable African Books of 2021."

The Washington Post provides “December paperback releases: 7 books to read now.”

NYT's Inside the Best-Seller List features "Veteran Authors and Mistletoe Descend on the Best-Seller List" including Richard Paul Evans' The Christmas Promise (Gallery: S. & S.), Danielle Steel's Flying Angels (Delacorte: Penguin Random House), and Ann Patchett's The Dutch House (HarperCollins). Also, a feature on "Shifting Styles and Blue Mood in the Pages of a Graphic Novel."

Authors on Air

Jocelyn Nicole Johnson, My Monticello (Henry Holt: Macmillan), chats with Brad Listi on the Otherppl podcast about "ways we replicate Thomas Jefferson's sins."

Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches book series will be adapted for television at AMC. The Hollywood Reporter has more. 

Stan Lee’s works of horror will be adapted for the screen by Timur Bekmambetov and ZQ Entertainment. Deadline shares the news.

Fox News features a segment on The Jesus I Know by Kathie Lee Gifford (HarperCollins) on “the significance her faith holds in her life.”

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