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Awards, News & Best of the Year

BookMarks collates  “The Award-Winning Novels of 2022.”

CSM wraps up the best books of 2022. 

CrimeReads shares the best debut crime novels of 2022. 

B&N issues “Challenge Your Reading With These Books in 2023.”

The U.S. Department of Education investigates the removal of LGBTQ+ books from a Texas school district. USA Today has coverage. 

LA Times examines how “How Gender Queer: A Memoir became America’s most banned book.”

Reviews

The Washington Post reviews Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood by Jessica Grose (Mariner: Houghton Harcourt): “Grose shows that even before the pandemic, mothers—particularly minority moms—were operating in a world without adequate services and safeguards.”

LA Times reviews Concentrate: Poems by Courtney Faye Taylor (Graywolf): “Unusual for a debut, it’s not a collection of the author’s strongest poems to date but a complete conceptual work. Each of the seven sections contributes to and complicates a central theme. In other words, it’s an act of concentration.”

Salon reviews Pattie Boyd: My Life in Pictures by Pattie Boyd (Reel Art Pr.): “Whether it pertains to her ill-fated marriages or the passage of time that inescapably impacts us all, Boyd’s book tenderly taps into our own nostalgia about what might have been—not only in Boyd's life, but our own.”

The Guardian reviews Sugar Street by Jonathan Dee (Grove; LJ starred review): “Part of the power of Sugar Street lies in its style. Its short paragraphs resemble thoughts, or asides to an unspecified interlocutor, such as: ‘Remember when hitchhikers were a thing? Haven’t seen a single one.’”

Briefly Noted

LA Times catches up with Shehan Karunatilaka, Booker Prize–winning author of The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (Norton). They also talk with Alexandra Grant about her new art book, LOVE: A Visual History of the grantLOVE Project (Abrams), and “what it means to be a civic artist.”

Donna Tartt answers 11 questions about The Secret History for TODAY. 

Poets & Writers has 10 questions for Bushra Rehman, author of Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion (Flatiron).

Maggie O’Farrell, The Marriage Portrait (Knopf), leads a literary tour of Edinburgh for NYT. 

HipLatina profiles Veronica Garza and her cookbook The Siete Table: Nourishing Mexican-American Recipes from Our Kitchen (Harper Wave).

Robert Caro still working on the long-awaited fifth installment of his LBJ biography, with no publication date set. ABC News has coverage. The Associated Press shares an interview with Caro and his editor, Robert Gottlieb. 

Gizmodo shares an exclusive excerpt from Sara Hashem’s forthcoming epic fantasy, The Jasad Heir, due out from Orbit in July. 

LA Times considers “How 2022 became the year of the fragmented-identity novel.”

Buzzfeed suggests 15 winter thrillers.

The Guardian has the top 10 books about hellraisers. 

The AP shares the top 10 books on Audible.com.

The Millions releases more end-of-the-year reading lists from authors Elena Saavedra Buckley, Summer Farah, Stephen Dodson, Daisy Alioto, and Sarah Thankam Mathews. 

CrimeReads recommends cozy mysteries for fans of the show Only Murders In The Building.

Authors on Air

NPR’s Morning Edition talks with Susan Kuklin, author of Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out (Candlewick), which is currently banned in 11 school districts. Kuklin also writes an essay for NPR. 

Gizmodo previews storyline surprises in the new season of Netflix’s Shadow and Bone, adapted from Leigh Bardugo’s series. 

Anthony Almojera’s memoir, Riding The Lightning: A Year in the Life of a New York City Paramedic (Mariner; LJ starred review), will be adapted as a series. Deadline reports. 

Variety lists “The 100 Greatest Movies of All Time,” including several iconic adaptations.  

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