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Awards & March Picks

Penguin Random House announces a new leadership structure and reorganization which separates Random House and Crown. NYT reports. Publishers Weekly also has coverage. The NYT notes that the new division, Crown Publishing Group, will include the imprints Crown and Clarkson Potter. 

Jenna Bush Hager picks Black Candle Women by Diane Marie Brown (Graydon House) for her March Book Club. 

The Daughters of Madurai by Rajasree Variyar (Union Sq.) is the March B&N book club pick.

Audiofile announces the March Earphones Award Winners. 

The March Costco Connection is out featuring an interview with Lucy Foley, whose novel, The Paris Apartment (Morrow), arrived in paperback last week. The buyers’ pick is Never Never by Colleen Hoover and Tarryn Fisher (Canary Street). Baking School: Lessons and Recipes for Every Baker by King Arthur Baking Company (Countryman Pr.) is also featured.

Amazon’s books editorial director recommends books for Women’s History Month on CBS Mornings.

B&N announces its picks for March. 

Amazon Editors pick the best books of March. 

LA Times spotlights 10 titles for March. 

LitHub shares March’s best sci-fi and fantasy books. 

NYT recommends 8 newly published titlesand highlights 14 books coming in March. 

CBC previews “46 Canadian poetry collections to watch for in spring 2023.”

Reviews

The Washington Post reviews Your Driver Is Waiting by Priya Guns (Doubleday): “Our driver Priya Guns deserves a big tip for taking us on such an enthralling ride”; The Queen of Dirt Island by Donal Ryan (Viking; LJ starred review): “In many delightful ways, this is territory well traveled by other great contemporary Irish writers, including John McGahern, Niall Williams and Claire Keegan. But Ryan has his own emotional range and a way of capturing the largeness of what look like tiny lives but aren’t…”; and The Diary Keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It by Nina Siegal (Ecco): “The result constitutes both a dynamic new way of narrating the history of the Netherlands during the war and an important correction to the popular mythology.”

The Star Tribune reviews The Crane Husband by Kelly Barnhill (Tor.com): “If you can get past—or better yet, go along with—the crane, this brief book is absorbing, thought-provoking, and, in spite of or perhaps because of its outlandish premise, irresistibly readable.”

Datebook reviews The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration by Jake Bittle (S. & S.): “Bittle often finds government, particularly the federal level, at fault for not doing enough. But much of the danger millions of Americans find themselves facing is of our own making.”

Seattle Times reviews Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear by Erica Berry (Flatiron; LJ starred review): “The most powerful theme that runs through Wolfish is human fear, and here Berry’s vulnerability and strength is displayed in poignant detail.”

The Guardian reviews Old Babes in the Wood: Stories by Margaret Atwood (Doubleday): “Atwood is a literary writer who entirely sees the point of science fiction, and her speculative instincts are on show in several of the stories here.”

Briefly Noted

LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for Storm Watch by C.J. Box (Putnam), the top holds title of the week.

LJ’s Barbara Hoffert releases new September prepub alerts in key literary fiction and big-name authors in historical mode.

LA Times talks with Kate Zernike about her new book, The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science (Scribner). Also, Jermaine Fowler discusses his new book, The Humanity Archive: Recovering the Soul of Black History from a Whitewashed American Myth (Row House), and its origins as a podcast. 

Paul Harding discusses his book, This Other Eden (Norton), with The Millions. 

Priya Guns talks with Shondaland about her new book, Your Driver Is Waiting (Doubleday), “labor and being a working artist under late-stage capitalism, the dynamics of power, dystopia and utopia, and writing satire by accident.”

TikTok star Tasnim Geedi recommends 7 favorite books at CBC. Geedi will champion Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey) on Canada Reads 2023. 

The Guardian shares the top 10 criminal duos in fiction. 

CrimeReads has 11 speculative-fiction titles that will appeal to crime-fiction fans. 

ElectricLit has “7 new southern gothic novels by women writers.”

Authors On Air

 NPR’s Consider This highlights The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration by Jake Bittle (S. & S.).

Joanna Gaines unboxes her forthcoming book, Magnolia Table, Volume 3: A Collection of Recipes for Gathering (William Morrow Cookbooks), which arrives in May, on GMA. People also has coverage. 

John Berendt’s Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is being developed into a new musical with Rob Ashford, Taylor Mac, and Jason Robert Brown. Deadline reports. 

An all-star ensemble cast is announced for the film adaptation of On Swift Horses by Shannon Pufahl. Deadline reports. 

Disney+’s Peter Pan and Wendy, based on the book by J.M. Barrie, gets a trailer.

Eliza VanCort, A Woman’s Guide to Claiming Space: Stand Tall. Raise Your Voice. Be Heard (Berrett-Koehler), visits with Drew Barrymore tomorrow. 

Lewis Howes, The Greatness Mindset: Unlock the Power of Your Mind and Live Your Best Life Today (Hay House), will appear on Tamron Hall. 

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