Awards & Buzzy Book News

Bono's best-selling new memoir, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story (Knopf; LJ starred review), receives much attention from news outlets. The author shares a story about how “he once woke up in White House Lincoln bedroom after dinner and drinks with Barack Obama” with People. USA Today also reports on his book tour details. He answers NYT's By the Book questions and chats about “activism and connecting music to a larger meaning” in an interview with PBS News Hour. Lastly, he will appear as a guest on The Stephen Colbert show tonight.

The 2022 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant recipients have been announced. 

Joan Didion's estate is up for sale and Lit Hub has an "annotated guide" to it. Plus, the site has news on a Republican congressional candidate with "Christian fanfiction about Anne Frank" and a listing of "free virtual library events this November."

New Title Bestsellers

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

Fiction

No Plan B by Lee Child and Andrew Child (Dell) launches at No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 3 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Diper Överlöde by Jeff Kinnety (Abrams) debuts at No. 2 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy (Knopf) hitches to No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 11 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Livid: A Scarpetta Novel by Patricia Cornwell (Grand Central) storms No. 5 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 9 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

The Atlas Paradox by Olivie Blake (Tor) finds No. 10 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

The Rise of the Dragon: An Illustrated History of the Targaryen Dynasty, Volume One by George R. R. Martin, Elio M. García Jr. and Linda Antonsson (Ten Speed) flies to No. 13 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Nonfiction

Radio's Greatest of All Time by Rush Limbaugh with Kathryn Adams Limbaugh and David Limbaugh (Threshold: S. & S.) tunes into No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list and No. 6 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Waypoints: My Scottish Journey by Sam Heughan (Voracious: Hachette) finds No. 4 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Go-To Dinners: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook by Ina Garten (Clarkson Potter) toasts No. 4 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherje (Scribner) begins at No. 5 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

My Travels with Mrs. Kennedy by Clint Hill and Lisa McCubbin Hill (Gallery: S. & S.) sails to No. 6 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams by Stacy Schiff (Little, Brown) rises to No. 8 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Justice Corrupted: How the Left Weaponized Our Legal System by Ted Cruz (Regnery) debuts at No. 9 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson by Jeff Pearlman (Mariner; LJ starred review) opens at No. 12 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

USA Today considers the best sellers list from this week.

Reviews

NYT shares three short reviews of new memoirs including Shanda: A Memoir of Shame and Secrecy by Letty Cottin Pogrebin (Post Hill: S. & S.) as "a frank and often amusing tabulation of well-kept family secrets;" A Girlhood: Letter to My Transgender Daughter by Carolyn Hays (Blair: Consortium) that is "at once powerfully intimate and frustratingly pamphlet-like, particularly when the narration becomes impersonal and omniscient, peppered with random references to nonconformity, gender and otherwise, from throughout history;" and, The Family Outing by Jessi Hempel (HarperOne; LJ starred review) is "a full-hearted if overdetermined attempt to filter the stories of five individuals through the ready-made sieve of memoir and its subgenre, the coming-out story." Also, a list of "sizzling, sparking, white-hot romance novels" featuring How the Wallflower Was Won by Eva Leigh (Avon); The Belle of Belgrave Square by Mimi Matthews (Berkley; LJ starred review); and The Stand-Up Groomsman by Jackie Lau (Berkley). 

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

Briefly Noted

Dani Shapiro, author of Signal Fires (Knopf), talks about “her prismatic creative practice and the lessons of patience” with The Millions.

Entertainment Weekly interviews Maureen Lee Lenker about her upcoming debut book, It Happened One Fight.

Graeme Macrae Burnet talks to CrimeReads about "writing comedy, crime, and character with divided selves" in his new book, Case Study (Biblioasis).

People shares multiple revelations from memoirs including Joanna Gaines’ “insecurity after getting bullied as a child for her Korean heritage” as detailed in The Stories We Tell: Every Piece of Your Story Matters (Harper Select). Also, Lauren Graham discusses her breakup with Peter Krause and her latest book, Have I Told You This Already? Stories I Don’t Want to Forget to Remember (Ballantine).

Fox News reports on King Charles' habits in Christopher Andersen’s latest book on the royal family, The King: The Life of Charles III (Gallery). Plus, details of Pattie Boyd's last meeting with George Harrison before his death in her book, Pattie Boyd: My Life in Pictures (Reel Art Pr.). Also, a release announcement for the 100th anniversary of Emily Post's Etiquette by Lizzie Post and Daniel Post Senning (Ten Speed Pr.).

Tor.com shares a cover reveal for Flight & Anchor by Nicole Kornher-Stace (Tachyon: Baker & Taylor). 

Author Erika T. Wurth, White Horse (Flatiron; LJ starred review), shares what she is currently reading for Lit Hub's The Annotated Nightstand. 

Lit Hub has book recommendations for readers "struggling with infertility."

CrimeReads suggests several reading lists including “Seven Wildly Entertaining Books About Agatha Christie and Her Characters,” mysteries involving animal rescues, and “Four Books to Try to Understand Why Children Kill.”

Authors on Air

Ramona Emerson, author of Shutter (Soho Crime), talks to NPR’s Fresh Air about being “inspired by her own experiences as a crime scene photographer.”

Good Morning America shares books discussed on The Book Case podcast with Kate and Charlie Gibson.

The Los Angeles Times Today highlights Javier Zamora’s personal story as told in his memoir, Solito (Hogarth).

Naomi Novik’s A Deadly Education (Del Rey; LJ starred review), will be adapted into a film by Universal Pictures, according to Tor.com. 

There is a new adapation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol starring Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell. Lit Hub has more.