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Awards & Buzzy Book News

Annie Ernaux, author of Getting Lost, tr. from French by Alison L. Strayer (Seven Stories Pr.), wins the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature. Lit Hub provides an excerpt of her book and a review. USA Today also covers the story, and NYT weighs in as well. Plus, Yale University Press announces, via press release, plans to publish Ernaux's next book Look at the Lights, My Love, scheduled for fall 2023.

The book tour for Michelle Obama’s new book, The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times (Crown), will include stars such as Oprah Winfrey, David Letterman, and Ellen DeGeneres among others. Deadline has more.

Lit Hub reports on the “world’s most valuable novel,” a first edition of Jane Austen’s Emma. 

NYT covers a story on Bram Stoker’s Dracula being turned into a newsletter and “internet sensation.”

CrimeReads gives “October’s Best Psychological Thrillers.”  

New Title Bestsellers

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

Fiction

Verity, by Colleen Hoover (Grand Central), claims No. 1 on both the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

The Golden Enclaves, by Naomi Novik (Del Rey; LJ starred review), captures No. 4 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 7 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Kingdom of the Feared, by Kerri Maniscalco (Little, Brown), rules No. 4 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

The Winners, by Fredrik Backman (Atria), debuts at No. 5 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 15 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Treasure State, by C.J. Box (Minotaur), shines at No. 6 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 13 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Suspect, by Scott Turow (Grand Central), starts at No. 9 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

I’m So Glad You Were Born, by Ainsley Earhardt (Zonderkidz), begins at No. 10 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Shrines of Gaiety, by Kate Atkinson (Doubleday), holds No. 13 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Nonfiction

Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories, by Kelly Ripa (Dey Street), electrifies at No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list and No. 5 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Killing the Legends, by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard (St. Martin’s), starts at No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list and No. 12 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Adrift, by Scott Galloway (Portfolio), floats to No. 7 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

The Breach: The Untold Story of the Investigation into January 6th, by Denver Riggleman, written with Hunter Walker (Holt), breaks to No. 13 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

USA Today digs into the week’s best sellers.

Reviews

The Washington Post reviews The Whalebone Theatre, by Joanna Quinn (Knopf): “Most interesting and moving as the story of these siblings, Cristabel in particular, making something of their own out of the material they’ve been given, finding their rightful place in a drama not always of their own making.”

Tor.com reviews Locklands by Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey): “Throughout the series, the refrain ‘Move thoughtfully and bring freedom to others,’ has been invoked as a means to showcase the mission of all civilizations: to do right by others, to free your fellow citizen from bondage, and protect society. In Locklands, maybe most triumphant of all, Bennett’s thesis is that if these things cannot be done, then it is up to civilization itself to change.”

Book Marks has “5 Reviews You Need To Read This Week.”

Briefly Noted

The Millions speaks to Lauren Acampora about her book, The Hundred Waters (Grove; LJ starred review), and its explorations around “art, home, family, the suburbs, displacement.”

Lydia Millet talks to The New York Times Magazine about transcending climate depair with her novel Dinosaurs (Norton).

Temple Grandin, The Outdoor Scientist: The Wonder of Observing the Natural World (Philomel: Random), answers NYT’s “By the Book” questionnaire.

Pamela Anderson will be coming out with a memoir, Love, Pamela (Dey Street), and Good Morning America has a cover reveal and coverage. People features an exclusive interview with Anderson.

NYT’s “Inside the Best-Seller List” profiles Andy Borowitz, author of Profiles in Ignorance: How America’s Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber (Avid Reader; LJ starred review).

Television producer, director, and creator Fenton Bailey will publish the book ScreenAge: How TV shaped our reality, from Tammy Faye to RuPaul’s Drag Race, written with Randy Barbaro (Ebury), to come out in December 2022, according to The Hollywood Reporter. 

The Washington Post’s Hope Corrigan revisits The Gift of Fear: And Other Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence by Gavin De Becker (Dell) “in the age of mass shootings.”

Tor.com provides “Five SFF Tales of Immortality.” Also, Jo Walton offers a reading list for September 2022.

Lit Hub lists “9 Novels of Art and Seduction” and books featuring “Ambitious Women in Literature” recommended by Stephanie Feldman, author of Saturnalia (Unnamed Pr.).

Vulture shares “The Best Comedy Books of 2022 (So Far).”

Authors on Air

Linda Ronstadt “reflects on her roots” in her book Feels Like Home: A Song for the Sonoran Borderlands, written with Lawrence Downes (Heyday), and discusses the memoir in an interview with PBS News Hour. 

Constance Wu, author of Making a Scene (Scribner), will appear as a guest on The Daily Show. She also appears in an ABC News interview with Juju Chang, discussing “sexual harassment allegations [and a] suicide attempt,” as covered by Good Morning America.

Samantha Hunt, The Unwritten Book (Farrar), talks about “what it means to believe in ghosts” with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds podcast.

Tor.com reports that Keanu Reeves may direct an adaptation of his comic book series BRZRKR, written with Matt Kindt (BOOM! Studios). 

The Hollywood Reporter provides a list of “timely books with Hollywood appeal.”

Lit Hub gives recommendations on literary films  “worth seeing in theaters (and at home) over the next few months.”

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