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Awards

The 2022 Ray Bradbury Prize finalists are announced.

The 2022 Lukas Prize shortlists from the Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University are announced.

New Title Bestsellers

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

Fiction

House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury) rises to No. 1 on both the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Diablo Mesa by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child (Grand Central) lands No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 4 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Sierra Six (Gray Man, Bk. 11) by Mark Greaney (Berkley) debuts at No. 2 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list and No. 6 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Moon Witch, Spider King by Marlon James (Riverhead) begins at No. 10 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu (Novel) Vol. 2 by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu (Seven Seas) graces No. 10 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Gwendy's Final Task by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar (Gallery) starts at No. 14 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Dawnshard by Brandon Sanderson (Tor: Macmillan) shines at No. 15 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Nonfiction

From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life by Arthur C. Brooks (Portfolio: PRH) starts at No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list and No. 13 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

PlantYou: 140+ Ridiculously Easy, Amazingly Delicious Plant-Based Oil-Free Recipes by Carleigh Bodrug (Hachette) grows to No. 14 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Watergate: A New History by Garrett M. Graff (Avid Reader: S. & S.) debuts at No. 15 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Reviews

NYT shares short reviews of new crime and mystery books including: The Harbor by Katrine Engberg (Scout), The Lady in the Silver Cloud by Stewart Hoag (Norton), and A Fatal Glow by Valerie Wilson Wesley (Kensington).

The Los Angeles Times reviews Woman Running in the Mountains by Yuko Tsushima (NYRB Classics): “a timely and a timeless read: Parents are inherently isolated, pandemic or not. What we believe to be our loneliness is perhaps only a matter of it being unspoken.”

Locus Magazine reviews Dead Silence by S. A. Barnes (Tor Nightfire): “its own unique monster full of great writing and well-developed characters. In other words, this is great, immersive, atmospheric space horror that shows Barnes is a talented storyteller and proves that, despite rumors to the contrary, horror belongs in space.”

Tor.com reviews The Paradox Hotel by Rob Hart (Ballantine): “Hart creates a sense of a place on the cusp of being irrevocably changed—and of a style of living that may have exceeded its viability.”

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

Briefly Noted

Julia May Jonas talks to The Millions about her book Vladimir (Avid Reader: S. & S.) and how writing about an affair on a college campus is a way to study the social tensions.

Tanaïs, author of essay collection In Sensorium (Harper), talks about "rejecting Western constructs, in writing and in life" with Helen Betya Rubinstein for Lit Hub.  

Harvey Fierstein discusses “sobriety, stardom, and his path to self-discovery” and his new memoir I Was Better Last Night (Knopf) with People. Also, an interview with Allison Pataki about her novel, The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post (Ballantine), centers the “life of the late heiress and businesswoman.”

Lisa Gardner, One Step Too Far (Dutton; LJ starred review), answers NYT's By the Book questionnaire.

People gives a sneak peek at the music and words of Dolly Parton and James Patterson on their new collaborative novel,Run, Rose, Run (Little, Brown, & Co.).

Si Spurrier and Matías Bergara have created Step by Bloody Step, a completely silent fantasy comic book and discuss their process with Entertainment Weekly. 

Woody Allen’s newest essay collection, Zero Gravity, will come out in June. The Hollywood Reporter has more.

Tor.com has an excerpt of The Bone Orchard by Sara A. Mueller (Tor: Macmillan).

NYT's Inside the Best-Seller List explores how current "genre series" books are highly profitable.

CrimeReads shares “Eight Books About What It Means To Be Human” and books about the “modern murder inn.”

Lit Hub has "Seven Books to Help You Get Through Your Olympic Hangover."

NYT has "14 New Books Coming in March."

Lit Hub reports on a group of Neo-Nazis interrupting programming at a library in Providence.

Authors on Air

Dr. Carl Erik Fisher, author of The Urge: Our History of Addiction (Penguin Pr.), chats about “undoing the notion of addiction as an irredeemable state” with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds podcast.

Erich Schwartzel, Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy (Penguin Pr.) speaks to Deadline about China’s Communist Party has “leverage over studios and whether Middle Kingdom Mayhem is worth it.” Also, there is an excerpt of the book.

Ethan Pettus’s novel Primitive War will be adapted and directed by Luke Sparke, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Actor Michael Sheen will “perform work by emerging Welsh writers on St. David’s Day.” Lit Hub reports.

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