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Awards & Buzzy Book News

Abram C. Van Engen wins the 2022 Yale University Press’s Pelikan Award for City on a Hill: A History of American Exceptionalism (Yale University), according to Shelf Awareness. 

Nora Roberts donates $25,000 to the Craighead County Jonesboro Public Library in Arkansas due to continued book censorship, Lit Hub reports.

The New Republic explores "the growing religious alliance to ban LGBTQ books."

CrimeReads lists “The Best Nonfiction Crime Books of October," "The Best Paperback Releases of Fall 2022," and “cozy mysteries” for fall.

Entertainment Weekly lists “the best new fall books about classic Hollywood.”

New Title Bestsellers

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

Fiction

Long Shadows by David Baldacci (Grand Central) beams at No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 2 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: The Illustrated Edition by J.K. Rowling (Scholastic) rises to No. 1 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

The Maze by Nelson DeMille (Scribner) corners No. 3 on both the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Lore Olympus: Volume One: Volume One by Rachel Smythe (Del Rey) rules No. 6 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston (St. Martin’s Griffin) flies to No. 7 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Dark Whisper by Christine Feehan (Berkley) starts at No. 11 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

The High Notes by Danielle Steel (Delacorte) hits No. 12 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Distant Thunder by Stuart Woods (Putnam) roars to No. 13 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 15 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Nonfiction

Down and Out in Paradise: The Life of Anthony Bourdain by Charles Leerhsen (S. & S.) debuts at No. 5 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Hold the Line by Michael Fanone and John Shiffman (Atria) claims No. 6 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Visual Thinking by Temple Grandin with Betsy Lerner (Riverhead) shows up to No. 7 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Revenge by Michael Cohen (Melville House) marks No. 13 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

The Big Bang Theory: The Definitive, Inside Story of the Epic Hit Series by Jessica Radloff (Grand Central; LJ starred review) begins at No. 14 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

USA Today explores the best sellers lists this week.

Reviews

NYT reviews Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative by Peter Brooks (New York Review): "turns out not to be the condemnation of narrative that I thought would follow from Brooks’s complaints in its early pages, but rather a potent defense of attentive reading and its real-world applications." And, The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy (Knopf): “far from McCarthy’s finest work, but that’s because he has had the nerve to push himself into new places, at the age of all-but-90. He has tried something in these novels that he’d never done before: I don’t mean writing a woman (although there’s that), but writing normal people.” Plus, The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire by Joseph Sassoon (Pantheon): "It’s more than just schadenfreude that makes the Sassoon story fascinating, though. Their improbable rise to great heights and the ways in which they changed the world can be thrilling to behold, and in an era whose main characters include ubiquitous space-racing billionaires, being reminded that even the most powerful among us can be easily forgotten is important." Also, six shorts reviews of new crime and mystery books including Blackwater Falls by Ausma Zehanat Khan (Minotaur: St. Martin’s), Lavender House by Lev AC Rosen (Forge; LJ starred review), The Innocent One by Lisa Ballantyne (Pegasus), South Central Noir edited by Gary Phillips (Akashic), Witnesses for the Dead edited by Gary Phillips and Gar Anthony Haywood (Soho Crime), and The Perfect Crime edited by Vaseem Khan and Maxim Jakubowski (HarperCollins). Finally, three short reviews of books on military history including Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America by Pekka Hämäläinen (Liveright; LJ starred review), Civil War by Other Means: America’s Long and Unfinished Fights for Democracy by Jeremi Suri (PublicAffairs: Hachette), and The Sasanian Empire at War: Persia, Rome, and the Rise of Islam, 224-651 by Michael J. Decker (Westholme). 

Tor.com reviews Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott (Anchor; LJ starred review): “Nethercott brings a folktale to this country and sets it loose on the road, looking to understand who believes in it, and how, and why that matters.”

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

Briefly Noted

Barbara Kingsolver, chats about her book Demon Copperhead (Harper), recently selected for Oprah's Book Club.

Artist and author George McCalman details the “creative process” behind his new book Illustrated Black History: Honoring the Iconic and Unseen (HarperOne) in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. 

Deadline covers Matthew Perry’s interview discussing his new memoir, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing (Flatiron). Entertainment Weekly also shares this interview and The Hollywood Reporter reports on the book’s revelations.

Ralph Macchio, author of Waxing On: The Karate Kid and Me (Dutton), talks about “how he survived lean years in his career” with The Hollywood Reporter. 

NYT's Inside the Best-Seller List discusses the writing practice Kelly Ripa employed for her memoir, Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories (Dey Street).

Clint Hill, a former U.S. Secret Service agent, talks to People about his upcoming book, My Travels with Mrs. Kennedy (Gallery: S. & S.), and shares “never-before-told stories.”

Ken Burns, Our America: A Photographic History (Knopf), answers NYT's By the Book questionnaire.

Tor.com explores the “sexuality and Southern Dark Academia” in Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo (Tordotcom: Macmillan). 

Lit Hub has a cover reveal for The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa by Stephen Buoro (Bloomsbury).

Tor.com shares the cover of Aimee Ogden’s Emergent Properties (Tordotcom: Macmillan). 

The New York Times Style Magazine remembers Toni Morrison's Jazz (Vintage) and how she came to write it.

Jane Hu revisits the work of Hilary Mantel for The New Yorker. 

Maira Kalman, illustrator of One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World by Michael Frank, (Avid Reader Pr./ S. & S.; LJ starred review), shares a reading list for Lit Hub's The Annotated Nightstand. 

NYT shares “newly published” books this week.

Authors on Air

Robert Draper speaks to NPR’s Fresh Air about his book, Weapons of Mass Delusion: When the Republican Party Lost Its Mind (Penguin Pr.).

BET and filmmaker Gerard McMurray will adapt David DB Andry’s Resonant comic book series for television. The Hollywood Reporter has the scoop.

Showrunner Carol Mendelsohn, plans to adapt The Bomb Maker by Thomas Perry (Mysterious Press: Ingram) into a series for Fox, according to Deadline. 

Alan Cumming, Baggage: Tales from a Fully Packed Life (Dey St.; LJ starred review), will appear as a guest on The Seth Meyers Show.

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