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Awards & Book Challenges

The 2022 James Tait Black Prizes are announced with Amit Chaudhuri winning the biography prize for Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music (New York Review) and Keith Ridgway, winning the fiction prize for A Shock (New Directions: Norton).

The 2022 Prix Utopiales finalists are announced.

A teacher has been removed for helping students obtain banned books in Oklahoma, according to Lit Hub. Also, a woman has taken Flamer by Mike Curato (Holt) to the local police in Katy, Texas. The Houston Chronicle covers more news in the Katy Independent School district and its consideration of policy changes affecting their classroom libraries.

New Title Bestsellers

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

Fiction

All Good People Here by Ashley Flowers (Bantam) debuts at No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 4 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

The Challenge by Danielle Steel (Delacorte) wins No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 7 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Overkill by Sandra Brown (Grand Central) strikes No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 9 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Star Wars: The Princess and the Scoundrel by Beth Revis (Random House Worlds) shines at No. 12 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Jujutsu Kaisen, Vol. 17 by Gege Akutami (VIZ) slices to No. 12 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Spelljammer by Wizards RPG Team (Wizards of the Coasts) lands No. 13 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Nonfiction

Diana, William, and Harry: The Heartbreaking Story of a Princess and Mother by James Patterson and Chris Mooney (Little, Brown) rules No. 4 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

What We Owe the Future by William MacAskill (Basic Books) starts at No. 7 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Vacuuming in the Nude: And Other Ways to Get Attention by Peggy Rowe (Forefront) uncovers No. 11 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Reviews

The Los Angeles Times reviews Meet Us by the Roaring Sea by Akil Kumarasamy (Farrar): “the translation-within-a-novel demonstrates how, across vastly different times, places and cultures, human beings ultimately have similar concerns: their health and their families — whether chosen, inherited or foisted together — and also the need to be nourished beyond the essentials, to feed what some might call the soul and help alleviate, endure or embrace the suffering endemic to human experience.”

The Washington Post reviews Knocking Myself Up: A Memoir of My (In)Fertility by Michelle Tea (Dey Street): "it’s the self-deprecating, self-aware and ultimately self-loving honesty that distinguishes Tea’s way of life and her irresistible, evocative and wise way of writing about it."

Locus Magazine reviews Phasers on Stun!: How the Making (and Remaking) of Star Trek Changed the World by Ryan Britt (Plume; LJ starred review): “Britt doesn’t break a lot of new ground with this book, but offers enough distinctive characteristics to avoid becoming a mere transporter duplicate, and will likely prove engaging to modern readers or newbies.”

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

Briefly Noted

The New Yorker explores the work of Ann Quin and her book Tripticks (And Other Stories), who uses the style of Beat poets and writers to “playfully mock their machismo and deflate the romance of nineteen-sixties drug culture.”

People features a first look at country musician Craig Morgan’s new memoir, God, Family, Country (Blackstone). 

Oprah Daily has a cover reveal for The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent by Ari Shapiro (HarperOne). 

USA Today explores the week's best seller's list.

Fox News covers news about support for Jennette McCurdy’s memoir, I’m Glad My Mom Died (S. & S.), from a fellow Nickelodeon actor. 

Tor.com provides an excerpt of Victor Manibo’s The Sleepless (Erewhon: Hachette). 

Lit Hub announces a new book from the Jack Kerouac Estate about his time as a “fire lookout” titled Desolation Peak (Rare Bird). 

Mark Athitakis makes a case for turning the Farmer’s Almanac “into something real- and useful” for The Washington Post. 

Oprah Daily provides “great reads you don’t want to miss” in 2022.

Tor.com lists “Five SFF Books About the Multiverse.”

Authors on Air

Phong Nguyen, Bronze Drum (Grand Central), talks about "Vietnam then, Taiwan today, and China's interests abroad" on the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast.

NPR’s Dave Davies interviews Michael Beckley, author of Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China (Norton), about the “growing tension between China and the U.S.” Also, All Things Considered features “exiled writers reflect on freedom of speech in America in light of Rushdie attack.”

Megan Giddings, author of The Women Could Fly (Amistad: HarperCollins), chats about "why the world still needs magic in literature" on The Maris Review podcast.

Jared Kushner, Breaking History: A White House Memoir (Broadside), shares his thoughts on Trump in a conversation with Fox News. 

Anya Kamenetz talks about her book The Stolen Year: How COVID Changed Children's Lives, and Where We Go Now by (PublicAffairs: Hachette) and “the catastrophic cost of the pandemic” on the Keen On podcast.

Amy Aniobi, of Insecure, will adapt Jessica Walter’s book The Nigerwife for development at HBO, according to Shadow and Act.

Warner Brothers is set to adapt Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellor (Bloomsbury) for a television series. Variety has more on this story.

Deadline announces the development of many book adaptations by Alloy Entertainment including: Getting Rid of Matthew by Jane Fallon, Pyrates by Chris Archer, Kisses & Croissants by Elspeth Keller, and 99 Days by Katie Cotugno.

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