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Award News & June Reads

2022 Colorado Book Awards finalists are announced.

The first Utopia Awards nominees have been announced.

Good Morning America provides “15 new books to add to your reading list for June.”

The Washington Post shares an explanation on book bans.

New Title Bestsellers

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

Fiction

Sparring Partners by John Grisham (Doubleday) clocks in at No. 1 on both the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Meant to Be by Emily Giffin (Ballantine) starts at No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 7 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

The Boardwalk Bookshop by Susan Mallery (MIRA) debuts at No. 11 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Nonfiction

Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris (Little, Brown; LJ starred review) arrives at No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list and No. 13 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

The Power of One More: The Ultimate Guide to Happiness and Success by Ed Mylett (Wiley) leads No. 4 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington by James Kirchick (Holt & Co.) finds No. 9 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America—and How to Undo His Legacy by David Gelles (S. & S.) rises to No. 13 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Reviews

NYT reviews Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation by Linda Villarosa (Doubleday): "In this eminently admirable book, there are no easy answers or platitudes. Even as Villarosa meticulously outlines the myriad ways Black people have fought for their own health, from social workers to doulas to community organizers, she stays focused on the nature of a structural problem, which cannot be changed through individual choices." Also, More Than You'll Ever Know by Katie Gutierrez (Morrow): "encompasses more than 30 years and delves into a love affair that destroyed a woman’s life and helped her to reclaim the sense of self she lost to the 'cruel banality of motherhood.'" Plus, Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead and the Small Things in Between by Joseph Osmundson (Norton; LJ starred review): "explores the harm we can cause with narratives we choose. The story of viruses told through a colonial lens is a violent one: a foreign enemy that has to be squashed out." And, a few more reviews posted today.

The Washington Post reviews Esmond and Ilia: An Unreliable Memoir by Marina Warner (New York Review): “lacks a fairy-tale ending — after all, it’s about real life — but it is nonetheless wondrously entertaining, an ideal book for a long, hot summer.” Also, The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon’s Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I by Lindsey Fitzharris (Farrar): “mostly a story of medical progress and extraordinary achievement, but as Gillies himself well knew — grappling daily with the unbearable suffering that people willingly inflicted on one another — failure was never far behind.”

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

Briefly Noted

NYT speaks to Werner Herzog about his new book, The Twilight World (Penguin Pr.). 

CrimeReads features a conversation between Cara Black, Murder at the Porte de Versailles (Soho Crime), and Tara Moss, The Ghosts of Paris (Dutton; LJ starred review) about “fiction and fashion.”

Colton Haynes, Miss Memory Lane (Atria; LJ starred review), discusses “lengths he took to stay in the closet on Teen Wolf and Arrow” in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter.

Ryan O'Connell, author of Just by Looking at Him (Atria) and star of the Netflix series Special, talks about "the importance of facing rejection in the sack and finding his voice in Hollywood" in an interview with Greg Marshall for Lit Hub. 

Ada Calhoun chats with NYT about how she meant to write a biography and ended up writing a memoir that became Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me (Grove). Also, Chris Pavone, Two Nights in Lisbon (MCD), talks about what he learned from John Grisham and Pat Conroy in an interview for "Inside the Best-Seller List." 

Emily Giffin has a novel out, Meant to Be (Ballantine), that is “inspired by JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette’s whirlwind ‘90s romance,” according to Entertainment Weekly. 

Tor.com announces the release of and details about The Rogue Crown by A.K. Mulford (Harper Voyager). 

Alice Oseman will be coming out with The Heartstopper Yearbook (Graphix) and Entertainment Weekly has a first look.

USA Today explores the week's best sellers.

Lit Hub lists "8 Wedding Novels for All the Lovers and Haters Out There."

The Millions shares their top ten books for May 2022 and a list of books “on war and literature.”

Authors on Air

Entertainment Weekly debuts a new podcast, Screen After Reading, and starts with a conversation with actor Sienna Miller on the adaptation of Sarah Vaughan’s Anatomy of a Scandal (Atria).

Hugh Laurie chats about “writing, directing and being in the Britbox adaptation of” Why Didn't They Ask Evans? by Agatha Christie (Morrow) with Deadline. 

Amye Archer, author of If I Don't Make It, I Love You: Survivors in the Aftermath of School Shootings (Skyhorse), talks about "the long history of mass shootings" on the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast. 

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