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Awards and News

Deep Wheel Orcadia by Harry Josephine Giles (Picador) wins the Arthur C. Clarke Award. Locus has details and the finalist list.

The three finalists for Blackwell’s Books of the Year are announced. The Bookseller has the news.

Prince Harry’s memoir has a publication date: Jan. 10, 2023. NYT has details, and Page Six writes more on the story.

An image of Toni Morrison will grace a U.S. postage stamp. LitHub has coverage. 

Bloomberg writes that “Libraries Can Unite a Lonely, Divided Nation.”

The November Loan Stars list is out.

George R.R. Martin has announced that he is “three-quarters of the way done” with The Winds of Winter. Entertainment Weekly has details.

Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Verso), has died. NPR has an obituary, as does the NYT. LA Review of Books gathers memorials of Davis from other writers. 

New Title Bestsellers

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

Fiction

The Boys from Biloxi by John Grisham (Doubleday) starts from No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 2 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

It Starts with Us by Colleen Hoover (Atria) opens at No. 1 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper) claims No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 5 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Liberation Day: Stories by George Saunders (Random House) wins No. 10 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

The Last Chairlift by John Irving (S. & S.) rises to No. 11 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

The Christmas Spirit by Debbie Macomber (Ballantine) sparkles at No. 12 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Nonfiction

Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard by Tom Felton (Grand Central: Life & Style) casts a spell at No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list and No. 6 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle by Jon Meacham (Random; LJ starred review) shines at No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list and No. 10 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman by Alan Rickman (Holt) charms at No. 4 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man by Paul Newman (Knopf; LJ starred review) opens at No. 5 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Waxing On: The Karate Kid and Me by Ralph Macchio (Dutton) takes a stand at No. 7 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Bibi: My Story by Benjamin Netanyahu (Threshold) opens at No. 9 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy by Anand Giridhardas (Knopf) holds No. 15 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Reviews

The Washington Post reviews My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives by Charlayne Hunter-Gault (Harper; LJ starred review): “Offers a survey of turbulent times and those who made history throughout them.” Also, Token Black Girl: A Memoir by Danielle Prescod (Little A): “Zooming in, or strategically pulling back, could have made this memoir more effective. But, boy, am I happy it exists”; Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires by Douglas Rushkoff (Norton): “Rushkoff provides a powerful critique of the attitudes and technologies that enable these deceptions. His arguments about their ultimate origins and his suggestions for how to improve our economy and future, however, are not persuasive”; and Objects of Love and Regret: A Brooklyn Story by Richard Rabinowitz (Belknap): “At times, Rabinowitz’s prose can become a bit wordy in his aspiration to eloquence. But his tenderly detailed evocation of times that are no more remind us that we, too, have the tools to pry open the past and revive what we thought we had forgotten.”

NPR reviews three books in translation, writing that none of them “pretend for a moment to be easy.” The books are: 

Kim Hye-jin’s Concerning My Daughter, tr. by Jamie Chang (Restless Bks.): “a tiny, blunt book.”

João Gilberto Noll’s Hugs and Cuddles, tr. by Edgar Garbelotto (Two Lines): “laughs at gender, but takes sex seriously.”

Jorge Enrique Lage’s Freeway: La Movie, tr. by Lourdes Molina (Deep Vellum): “perfectly recognizable. It's a picaresque buddy comedy.”

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

Briefly Noted

The NYT gathers horror novels.

PW offers a Halloween reading list of nonfiction titles.

Book Page offers multiple booklists for seasonal reading, including vampires, witches, and true crime.

The Chicago Tribune considers the horror genre, including quotes from LJ’s horror columnist Becky Spratford.

CrimeReads has books about horror movies.

Novelist Elif Shafak has “Read Your Way Through Istanbul” for the NYT.

The CBC has a list of great Canadian books for the fall.

People has a feature about Michelle Obama’s book-cover shoot.

Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time To Panic (Ecco), answers NYT’s “By the Book” questionnaire. 

The New Statesman has a piece about fiction by Karl Ove Knausgaard. 

Entertainment Weekly offers details on Sam Heughan’s memoir Waypoints: My Scottish Journey (Voracious: Hachette).

The Doctor Zhivago copyright cases ends, decided against Anna Pasternak. The Guardian has details.

Shondaland interviews Amanda Parrish Morgan, Stroller (Bloomsbury Academic’s “Object Lessons” series).

Authors on Air

Vanity Fair offers a “First Look at The Pale Blue Eye: Christian Bale’s Sinister Edgar Allan Poe Drama,” which is based on the novel of the same name by Louis Bayard.

Town and Country reports on the adaptation of Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s Fleishman Is In Trouble.

Variety has news about the Disney+ project “German House,” based on Annette Hess’s novel The German House, tr. by Elisabeth Lauffer (HarperVia).

Producer Tony Eldridge (The Equalizer films) options Hailey Piper’s upcoming 2023 horror novel A Light Most Hateful. Also, Green Lantern is getting revised again. Deadline Hollywood has details.

Entertainment Weekly considers the best and worst changes House of the Dragon made from George R.R. Martin’s Fire and Blood.

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