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Awards & March News

2022 Plutarch Award finalists are announced.

The 2022 Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize shortlist is announced.

The 2022 Stella Prize shortlist is announced.

USA Today reports a surge in book sales due to adaptations and controversy.

Book Marks has "AudioFile's Best Audiobooks of March."

HarperCollins has announced a new "boutique-style publishing imprint," Harper Select, focusing exclusively on memoir and narrative nonfiction titles.

Author Richard Lipez, known as Richard Stevenson, has died at 83. NYT has more about his life.

New Title Bestsellers

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

Fiction

The Recovery Agent by Janet Evanovich (Atria) uncovers No. 2 on both the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

French Braid by Anne Tyler (Knopf) starts at No. 4 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 10 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

A Safe House (Stone Barrington Bk. 61) by Stuart Woods (Putnam) locks in No. 6 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list and No. 11 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

A Sunlit Weapon by Jacqueline Winspear (Harper) rises to No. 7 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 9 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books.

Nonfiction

Against All Odds: A True Story of Ultimate Courage and Survival in World War II by Alex Kershaw (Dutton Caliber) debuts at No. 8 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Truly, Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and the Romance of the Century by Stephen Galloway (Grand Central) graces No. 9 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons by Jeremy Denk (Random) sings at No. 15 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Reviews

NYT reviews The Trayvon Generation by Elizabeth Alexander (Grand Central; LJ starred review): "Alexander, a scholar of Black history, draws from her extensive knowledge to explain the roots of censorship in school textbooks, as well as to stress the importance of memorializing Black ancestors and caretaking Black culture."

Locus Magazine reviews The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi (Tor): “an inventive, light-hearted, sprightly romp, replete with a low-key sensawunda vibe, that slyly makes, along the way, a few sharp points about ethics, friendship, capitalism, pure scientific research, and humanity’s duty to other species.” Also, Ogres by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Solaris): “a cunning take on both fantasy tropes and heroes’ journeys. Tchaikovsky’s hand is sure, even when it feels like the narrative is seconds away from slipping off of the rails.”

CrimeReads has "The Best Reviewed Crime Novels of the Month: March 2022."

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

Briefly Noted

NPR interviews Mariko Tamaki, author and curator of “LGBTQ-focused graphic novels” such as I Am Not Starfire, illustrated by Yoshi Yoshitani (DC Comics). 

Tor.com has a cover reveal for The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler (MCD). 

People ranks “All Eight of Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton novels.” Plus, an excerpt of Molly Shannon’s memoir Hello, Molly! (Ecco) written with Sean Wilsey.

 There is an excerpt of How Strange a Season by Megan Mayhew Bergman (Scribner) on Lit Hub. And, an excerpt of Truly, Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and the Romance of the Century by Stephen Galloway (Grand Central).

NYT's Inside the Best-Seller List features One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle (Atria).

Robert Tuesday Anderson explores "Jane Austen's Use of Food as Character" for Lit Hub. 

The Washington Post’s Michael Dirda lists “undeservedly forgotten novels and works of intellectual history.”

Lit Hub gathers "Books That Reveal the True Source of Collective Power" and recommends books on the history of America's National Parks.

CrimeReads shares “The Best New Crime Nonfiction Books: February and March 2022” and “The Best New Books Out in Paperback This Spring.”

Authors on Air

A.J. Baime, author of White Lies: The Double Life of Walter F. White and America's Darkest Secret (Mariner), speaks to NPR’s Fresh Air about “how one Civil Rights activist posed as a white man in order to investigate lynchings.”

Kate Folk, Out There (Random), speaks to the Otherppl podcast about “the natural crossover between literary and speculative fiction.”

Maud Newton discusses her book, Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation (Random), and "the relief of knowing that genes aren't fate" with the Maris Review podcast.

An adaptation of Garth Risk Hallberg’s City on Fire (Knopf) receives additions to its cast, according to Variety.

Robert R. McCammon’s Stinger (Audible) will receive a television adaptation by James Wan for Peacock. The Hollywood Reporter has more.

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