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New Title Bestsellers

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

Fiction

Bloodless by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (Grand Central) debuts at No. 1 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list and No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Complications by Danielle Steel (Delacorte) take No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 4 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

The Noise by James Patterson and J. D. Barker (Little, Brown) sounds off at No. 4 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 5 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Chasing the Boogeyman by Richard Chizmar (Gallery; LJ starred review) catches up to No. 10 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Nonfiction

Woke, Inc. by Vivek Ramaswamy (Center Street: Hachette) starts at No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list and No. 9 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

The Reckoning: Our Nation’s Trauma and Finding a Way To Heal by Mary L. Trump (St. Martin’s) rises to No. 4 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list and No. 10 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

All In by Billie Jean King (Knopf: Random House; LJ starred review) scores No. 5 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Reviews

NYT reviews Late City by Robert Olen Butler (Atlantic): “‘Late City’ is more of a Hallmark production. It shows very brief flashes of Butler’s humor and irony, which are in his tool kit, but it’s almost entirely, tragically guileless.”

The Washington Post reviews The Master: The Long Run and Beautiful Game of Roger Federer (Twelve: Hachette): “The author pinpoints some of the key tumblers that had to click into place for the young talent to become the branded superstar that is ‘Roger.’”

NPR Fresh Air reviews Skinship by Yoon Choi (Knopf: Random House): “Choi is the kind of writer whose work creates situations and emotions so complex, we don’t even have the words for them, at least not in English. In this extraordinary collection, Choi nudges us readers into widening our vocabularies.” Also, Seeing Ghosts by Kat Chow (Grand Central): “In telling these ghosts’ stories, Chow considers what we owe our ancestors, how generational grief’s root system pervades our lives, and the melancholia of loss—not just of people, but of places and identities.”

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

Briefly Noted

NYT profiles The Sisters of Auschwitz: The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters’ Resistance in the Heart of Nazi Territory by Roxane van Iperen (HarperCollins) and tells the story of “how two Jewish sisters built a cultural oasis during World War II.”

Adam Gopnik, author of S. J. Perelman: Writings (Library of America: Peguin), chats with The Washington Post about how his subject was a “master of comedy”.

Entertainment Weekly gives a first look at Sabaa Tahir’s newest, All My Rage (Razorbill: Penguin). Lit Hub has an excerpt of 1984: The Graphic Novel illustrated by Fido Nesti (Mariner: Houghton Mifflin).

Kathy Iandoli, author of Baby Girl: Better Known as Aaliyah (Atria), responds to accusations that she promoted her book outside of Aaliyah’s gravesite. People has more.

Alexandra Kleeman, Something New Under the Sun (Hogarth: Crown) fills out the Book Marks Questionnaire. 

Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint (Graywolf Press), speaks with Rebecca Clark for NYT's By the Book about the types of autobiographies to which she is drawn.

CrimeReads provides “The Month’s Best Nonfiction Crime Books.”

Electric Lit has “10 New Books Written and Translated by Women.” 

Lit Hub lists “6 Books About Women Leaving Strict Religious Communities and Finding Themselves.”

NYT shares “19 New Books Coming in September” and “What Was on the Best-Seller List 20 Years Ago?”

Joan Lubin is named the 2021 Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellow.

Authors on Air

Dr. Anna Lembke, author of Dopamine Nation: Finding a Balance in the Age of Indulgence (Dutton: Penguin), speaks with NPR’s Fresh Air about how “overabundance keeps us craving more.”

Katie Crouch, Embassy Wife (Farrar), praises “the not-perfectly-plotted novel” in an interview with Brad Listi on the Otherppl podcast.

The Changeling by Victor Lavalle (One World: Random House) will be adapted into a television series for Apple TV+. Tor.com has the news. LaKeith Stanfield will lead the cast, according to Lit Hub.

Kate Moore reads from her book The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear (Blackstone; LJ starred review) for the Behind the Mic with AudioFile Magazine. 

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