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Awards

Audiofile announces the recipients of the 2022 Golden Voices Audiobook Lifetime Achievement honors: Adjoa Andoh, Rupert Degas, and Juliet Stevenson.

The June 2022 Earphones Award winners are also announced.

Sui Annuka wins the 2022 Discoveries Programme from the Women’s Prize.

Book Clubs & Pride Booklists

B&N selects Half-Blown Rose by Leesa Cross-Smith (Grand Central), for its June Book Club. Cross-Smith writes a guest-post for the B&N blog.

Target promotes Yerba Buena by Nina LaCour (Flatiron), for its June Book Club pick.

The Amazon Editors’ June Picks are out with a spotlight on Half-Blown Rose by Leesa Cross-Smith (Grand Central). Plus, “juicy royal reads” to celebrate the British monarch’s 70 years on the throne. 

B&N has 13 “best books to read during Pride month.”

BookRiot shares “your curated queer TBR for Pride & beyond.”

Reviews

NYT reviews Tracy Flick Can’t Win by Tom Perrotta (Scribner): “In his sequel, Perrotta elaborates on the case of Tracy’s mistaken identity. Do people (mostly men, but some women) hate her because of … misogyny? Or is it because they can’t stop themselves from punishing a person who insists, absurdly, on believing that life should be fair?”

The Washington Post reviews The Latecomer by Jean Hanff Korelitz (Celadon): “Part farce, part revenge fantasy, the climactic scene at a triple birthday party at the Oppenheimers’ 'cottage' on Martha’s Vineyard is one of the most hilarious and horrible calamities I’ve ever found in a novel.” And, When We Fell Apart by Soon Wiley (Dutton): “Wiley is a master of structure and pacing, with a gift for ending chapters at their most gripping moments, which gives this quiet, mournful novel the page-turning quality of a thriller.” Plus, Bad Gays by Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller (Verso): “The book is anathema to respectability politics, drawing power from the stories of people who thought, said and did terrible things in their time.”

NPR reviews Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris (Little, Brown; LJ starred review): “Happy-Go-Lucky is more somber than Sedaris' usual fare, but there are some fresh, funny bits wedged between the weighty boulders.”

USA Today shares the best reviewed books of 2022 so far. 

Briefly Noted

People features details from James Burrows’s new memoir, Directed by James Burrows: Five Decades of Stories from the Legendary Director of Taxi, Cheers, Frasier, Friends, Will & Grace, and More (Ballantine), which publishes June 7. Plus, a preview of Kathleen Buhle’s forthcoming book, If We Break: A Memoir of Marriage, Addiction, and Healing (Crown).

Entertainment Weekly talks with Aaron Foley about his new book, Boys Come First (Belt Publishing), and shares book recommendations for “more stories about the Midwest and queer people of color.”

LA Times chats with David Sedaris about his new book, Happy-Go-Lucky (Little, Brown; LJ starred review).

ElectricLit talks with South African author Karen Jennings, about her book, An Island (Hogarth), “living in isolation and the universal trend towards far-right conservatism.“ Plus, an interview with Noon Naga about her book, If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English (Graywolf; LJ starred review).

NYT has newly published books for the week.

LA Times suggests 10 books for June.

The Washington Post has 10 noteworthy books for the month.

People has the 20 best books for the summer.

NPR has book picks for all 50 states, to kick off summer travel season.

LitHub rounds up AudioFile’s best audiobooks of May, and shares 17 books for June.

BookRiot lists June reading horoscopes, and the best audiobooks of the year (so far.)

ElectricLit has “7 books to help you resist productivity culture.” 

“Walter Abish, Daring Writer Who Pondered Germany, Dies at 90.” NYT has an obituary.

Authors On Air

Lilly Singh, Be a Triangle: How I Went from being Lost to Getting My Life into Shape (Ballantine), will be on with Ellen tomorrow. 

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