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Awards

The 2022 Yoto Carnegie and Greenaway Medal longlists 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

Abandoned in Death by J. D. Robb (St. Martin’s) lives at No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 2 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

City of the Dead by Jonathan Kellerman (Ballantine) shines at No. 6 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list and No. 7 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Steal by James Patterson and Howard Roughan (Grand Central) grabs No. 9 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

The Lady's Mine by Francine Rivers (Tyndale House) starts at No. 11 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Nonfiction

Life Force: How New Breakthroughs in Precision Medicine Can Transform the Quality of Your Life & Those You Love by Tony Robbins, Peter H. Diamandis, and Robert Hariri (S. & S.) shines at No. 1 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

The Nineties: A Book by Chuck Klosterman (Penguin Pr.; LJ starred review) debuts at No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari (Crown) takes No. 5 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas by Jennifer Raff (Twelve; LJ starred review) begins at No. 8 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Reviews

NYT reviews Born of Lakes and Plains: Mixed-Descent Peoples and the Making of the American West by Anne F. Hyde (Norton; LJ starred review): “The history she recounts is both sweeping and intimate, allowing her to trace larger developments while also showing how families responded differently to changing circumstances.”

Locus Magazine reviews Devil House by John Darnielle (MCD): “As with his previous books, it’s Darnielle’s eclectic approach to his subject matter, his unwillingness to conform to a specific style or mode, that makes his work stand out and feel fresh.”

The Washington Post reviews True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us by Danielle J. Lindemann, PhD (FSG): “At times, the tone almost feels defensive as she reiterates, over and over, the lessons of the genre — which makes sense coming from someone who teaches a class about a subject that causes many to scoff. Fans of reality TV can relate. And now, when confronted with such snobbery, they can say that if the person likes reading so much, they have the perfect book to recommend.” Also, short reviews on "paranoid fiction, starting with the works of Philip K. Dick" spotlighting: The Second Shooter by Nick Mamatas (Solaris) and Comfort Me With Apples by Catherynne M. Valente (Tordotcom).

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

Briefly Noted

The Millions interviews Rabih Alameddine, author of The Wrong End of the Telescope (Grove; LJ starred review), about “how we see and read people.”

Elizabeth Samet talks about her book Looking for the Good War (FSG) and “challenging a romanticized view of the WWII era” with Jeffrey Brown for PBS News Hour. 

Sarah Polley speaks to NYT about her new book of essays Run Towards the Danger (Penguin) containing "intensely personal stories she's still sorting out for herself."

JJ Bola, The Selfless Act of Breathing (Atria), discusses with The Los Angeles Times why as a refugee he “sent his protagonist on a suicidal American road trip.”

Johann Hari, author of Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again by (Crown), speaks with NYT about “how our brains have been broken by technology – and what we can do to fight back.”

NYT publishes an appraisal of the late P.J. O’Rouke’s writing style. Also, Inside the Best-Seller List features Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas by Jennifer Raff (Twelve; LJ starred review) and Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari (Crown).

Julie Otsuka, The Swimmers (Knopf; LJ starred review), answers questions for NYT's By the Book.

Alex McElroy, The Atmospherians (Atria; LJ starred review), answers the Book Marks Questionnaire.

The Hero Initiative has created a “crossover comic” to honor artist George Perez and to help struggling comic creators, according to Entertainment Weekly. Also, a first look at Maggie O’Farrell’s next book, The Marriage Portrait.

People shares an excerpt of Run, Rose, Run by Dolly Parton and James Patterson (Little, Brown, & Co.).

Lit Hub has an excerpt of Born of Lakes and Plains: Mixed-Descent Peoples and the Making of the American West by Anne F. Hyde (Norton; LJ starred review).

Tor.com has a cover reveal for The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake (Tor Books: Macmillan).

CrimeReads shares “Five Books That Explore the Dark Side of Belonging.”

Lit Hub provides a reading list of “Deeply Flawed Mother Figures.”

Tor.com lists “Five Stories About the Core of the Milky Way.”

USA Today has "8 cookbooks perfect for people who don't know how to cook."

Science fiction writer Melissa Mead has died at 54. Locus Magazine shares the news.

Authors on Air

NPR’s Fresh Air interviews Tomiko Brown-Nagin, author of Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality (Pantheon), about the woman who “wrote the original complaint in Brown v. The Board of Education and was on Martin Luther King’s legal team.”

Sarah Manguso, Very Cold People (Hogarth), chats about how “dialogue is embarrassing” with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds podcast.

Iain Reid’s We Spread (S. & S.) will be adapted for film with Minhal Baig as director, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Mindy Kaling to partner with Amazon to “adapt films based on her literary curations.” Deadline reports. Also, Hulu has acquired Adrian McKinty’s new book,The Island (Little, Brown, & Co.), for a limited series.

Two webtoons from Wattpad Studios will be adapted for the screen. Variety has more.

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