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Awards News & Winter Reads

2022 Canopus Awards finalists are announced, as reported by Locus Magazine. 

The 2022 Prime Minster's Literary Award winners are announced.

USA Today’s Best-Selling books list is on hiatus, starting on December 1. 

Book Riot releases a few “best of lists” for 2022 including LGBTQIA+ books, graphic novels and comics, and romance novels. Also, suggestions on “how your book club can fight against books bans and censorship” and recommending books that the recommender didn’t like.

Essence suggests “15 Books By Black Authors to Read This Winter.”

Vanity Fair gathers “39 Best Books of 2022.”

Salon provides a list of favorite fiction and nonfiction books for the year.

Vulture lists “The Best Horror Novels of 2022.”

Book Marks shares "The Best Reviewed Essay Collections of 2022."

CrimeReads shares the year's "Best Historical Fiction."

The Walrus features an article about the mighty tote bag and its cultural evolution.

Page to Screen

December 16:

The Quiet Girl, based on the story Foster by Claire Keegan. Super LTD. Reviews | Trailer

Black Adam, based on associated titles. Warner Bros. Pictures. HBO Max. Reviews | Trailer

December 20:

Inu-Oh, based on the book Tales of the Heike: Inu-Oh by Hideo Furukawa. GKIDS. VOD. Reviews | Trailer

The Seven Deadly Sins: Grudge of Edinburgh Part 1, based on the manga series The Seven Deadly Sins by Nakaba Suzuki. Netflix. No reviews | Trailer

December 21:

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, based on the Italian fairy tale. Universal Pictures. Reviews | Trailer

Jack Ryan, based on books by Tom Clancy. Prime Video. Reviews | Trailer

December 22:

Alice in Borderland, based on the manga by Haro Aso. Netflix. Reviews | Trailer

Reviews

NYT reviews Scatterlings by Resoketswe Manenzhe (HarperVia): "a swift, brutal read, full of suspense about the big and small questions of living, struggling with its characters’ beliefs about belonging and rootlessness." Also, 9 new recommended books.

Locus Magazine reviews Titan by Mado Nozaki (Airship): “Nozaki is an acclaimed writer of anime and manga as well as light novels (Hello World, Babylon), and Titan is suffused with the kind of quiet, conversational, and philosophical moments that often characterize those genres.”

Briefly Noted

Rolf Potts, author of The Vagabond's Way: 366 Meditations on Wanderlust, Discovery, and the Art of Travel (Ballantine), talks to NYT about seeing home anew when you can't travel.

Rabih Alameddine, winner of PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction for The Wrong End of the Telescope (Grove; LJ starred review), recommends his favorite short books from the past year for Lit Hub. 

James Patterson will co-author an as-yet-untitled book from a manuscript written by Michael Crichton before his death. Deadline has more.

NPR delves deeper into the details of How To Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future by Maria Ressa (Harper).

The Millions releases another end-of-the-year reading list by author Jennifer Egan of The Candy House (Scribner; LJ starred review).

Parade gives a “guide to the Outlander book series” with the help of author Diana Gabaldon.

Lit Hub has book recommendations for people who need “a dose of optimism.”

Chicago Tribune shares “9 tried-and-true cookbooks.”

Book Riot provides “7 Books About Codependency to Help You Better Understand the Condition.”

Oprah Daily suggests 5 new book clubs.

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