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The 2022 Yoto Carnegie and Greenaway Medal shortlists are announced.

USA Today shares "10 books to help understand what's happeneing in Russia and Ukraine."

Tor.com writes a piece about how readers can help with book banning.

New Title Bestsellers

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

Fiction

Run, Rose, Run by Dolly Parton and James Patterson (Little, Brown) arrives at No. 1 on both the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Shadows Reel (Joe Pickett, Bk. 22) by C. J. Box (Putnam) debuts at No. 2 on both the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

High Stakes by Danielle Steel (Delacorte) climbs to No. 3 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list and No. 5 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

The Golden Couple by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen (St. Martin’s) shines at No. 4 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

The Lightning Rod: A Zig & Nola Novel by Brad Meltzer (Morrow) strikes No. 7 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 11 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Nonfiction

One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General by William P. Barr (Morrow) starts at No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list and No. 5 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution by Elie Mystal (New Press: Ingram) debuts at No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Amy Bloom (Random) holds No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

How Do I Un-Remember This? by Danny Pellegrino (Sourcebooks) reaches No. 5 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

The Wok: Recipes and Techniques by J. Kenji López-Alt (Norton; LJ starred review) cooks up to No. 6 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Reviews

NYT reviews Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took On a World at War by Deborah Cohen (Random; LJ starred review): “a distressing, immersive recounting of how denial, passivity and pacification aided the rise of authoritarian regimes. Cohen has tasked herself with the same outsized challenge that faced her subjects in real time: making the deluge of prewar events around the globe comprehensible to readers.”

The Washington Post reviews The Last Confessions of Sylvia P. by Lee Kravetz (Harper): “Kravetz uses narratives told by other women to create the latest incarnation of Plath, who, like Virginia Woolf before her, has become, beyond the author of her poetry and prose, a character in her own right.” Also, In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing by Elena Ferrante, trans. by Ann Goldstein (Europa): “It’s Ferrante’s distinct articulation of that loss here — the voice and tone whose singularity she undermines in the other lectures — that makes the experience freshly melancholy.” Plus, two short reviews on work that “deserves notice” including Literary Alchemist: The Writing Life of Evan S. Connell by (University of Missouri) and Robert Aickman: An Attempted Biography by R.B. Russell. 

The Nation reviews Fuccboi by Sean Thor Conroe (Little, Brown, & Co.): "mistakes narcissism for introspection, as so many alt-lit failures have before. Long before this novel is over, it’s reached a stylistic and moral dead end."

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

Briefly Noted

NYT interviews Marie Yovanovitch, author of Lessons From The Edge: A Memoir (Mariner), about how she “became a casualty of the Trump Administration” as an US Ambassador to Ukraine. Also, David Godine looks back on "50 years of making beautiful books" in a discussion about his book Godine at Fifty: A Retrospective of Five Decades in the Life of an Independent Publisher (Godine: Ingram).

NYT has a series called A Diary in Alphabetical Order featuring Sheila Heti, author of Pure Colour (FSG).

Margaret Atwood will participate in a dramatic reading of The Nurse Antigone with "the practicing nurses who have held the front line of the pandemic," according to NYT. 

Jeremy Denk, author of Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons (Random), answers NYT's “By the Book” questionnaire.

NYT's “Inside the Best-Seller List” tries to answer the question: "When Will Publishing Stop Starving Its Young?" with news about the editor of Olivie Blake's The Atlas Six (Tor), Molly McGhee's resignation letter.

CrimeReads “traces the lineage of modern crime fiction” by examining the work of Agatha Christie and Patricia Highsmith.

Lit Hub remembers the late Maureen Howard, author of The Rags of Time (Penguin). Also, an exploration of “the story behind Jonathan Franzen's new backlist book cover redesigns.”

Phoebe Zerwick "recommends books about justice and the carceral state" for Lit Hub. 

CrimeReads helps readers pick a classic mystery author, based on zodiac sign. 

Authors on Air

NPR speaks to Yevgenia Belorusets, author of Lucky Breaks trans. by Eugene Ostashevsky (New Directions: Norton), as she “documents Kyiv’s displaced.” Also, Terry Gross from Fresh Air interviews Dr. Jonathan Reisman about “the hidden wonders of the human body” and his book The Unseen Body (Flatiron). 

Lili Anolik, Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A. (Scribner: S. & S.), speaks about “the complicated relationship between Eve Babitz and Joan Didion” with Brad Listi on the Otherppl podcast.

Alexandra Daddario will be the star of Mayfair Witches, an adaptation of Anne Rice’s The Lives of the Mayfair Witches (Knopf), according to Variety.

Jen Beagin’s upcoming book Big Swiss is being adapted by HBO, to star Jodie Comer. Deadline has more.

Tor.com provides “Science Fiction Double Feature: Five Fun Book-and-Movie Pairings.”

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