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New Title Bestsellers

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

Fiction

Billy Summers by Stephen King (Scribner: S. & S.) shines at No. 1 on both the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

We Were Never Here by Andrea Bartz (Ballantine) arrives at No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 10 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Blind Tiger by Sandra Brown (Grand Central) roars to No. 3 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list and No. 5 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Jujutsu Kaisen, Vol. 11 by Gege Akutami (VIZ Media) starts at No. 4 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 23 by Koyoharu Gotouge (VIZ Media) slices to No. 6 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Chainsaw Man, Vol. 6 by Tatsuki Fujimoto (VIZ Media) cuts to No. 7 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Class Act by Stuart Woods (Putnam) starts at No. 8 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

We Are the Brennans by Tracey Lange (Celadon: Macmillan) debuts at No. 11 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

The Turnout by Megan Abbott (Putnam; LJ starred review) brings in No. 13 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So (Ecco) is No. 14 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy (Flatiron; LJ starred review) howls at No. 15 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Nonfiction

Here, Right Matters: An American Story by Alexander Vindman (Harper) debuts at No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list and No. 12 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created Sunday in the Park with George by James Lapine (Farrar) sings at No. 13 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler by Rebecca Donner (Little, Brown) starts at No. 14 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Reviews

NPR Fresh Air reviews Agatha of Little Neon by Claire Luchette (FSG): “You don't have to be Catholic to connect with Luchette's nuanced and vivid story of a lonely young woman yearning for community and also yearning for everything she's had to give up to be part of that community. The nuns don't fly or sing or torment the helpless in Agatha of Little Neon, but they do make an indelible impression.”

NYT reviews Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux: Macmillan): “And some of Burkeman’s modest suggestions about how to prioritize things, without simply adding stress about prioritizing things to life, seem well worth trying. And in addition to whatever help it might offer, “Four Thousand Weeks” is also just good company; it addresses large, even existential, issues with a sense of humor and an even-keeled perspective.”

The Washington Post reviews: Death Fugue by Sheng Keyi (Restless: Ingram): “This infinitely twisty novel couldn’t elude Chinese censors, but it still managed to slip out into the world and shout its scorching critique of the ongoing humiliation of the human spirit.” Also, The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer by Dean Jobb (Algonquin): “A true-crime columnist for Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine as well as an author and professor of journalism at Nova Scotia’s University of King’s College, Jobb writes clean, efficient sentences and re-creates Cream’s heartless life in short, highly dramatic chapters.” Plus, Everything I Have Is Yours by Eleanor Henderson (Flatiron; LJ starred review): "Readers with chronically ill spouses might find this memoir comforting; those who can’t resist rubbernecking might find it fascinating."

Locus Magazine reviews Moon Lake by Joe R. Lansdale (Mulholland; LJ starred review): “A cast of superb supporting characters is a Lansdale trademark, as is a mix of piquant banter, wry humor, folksy phrasing, immense original­ity, and immaculate prose. So is his proclivity to investigate relations between the races and the general Texas cultural milieu. Moon Lake doesn’t disappoint in any of these aspects.”

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

Briefly Noted

Dolly Parton and James Patterson join together to write Run, Rose, Run (Little, Brown, & Co.) and Parton creates an accompanying album. People has the story and more.

Entertainment Weekly has a cover reveal, interview, and news for Jean Hanff Korelitz’s latest, The Latecomer (Celadon: Macmillan). The Washington Post has an interview with Cecily Strong about her new book, This Will All Be Over Soon (S. & S.), about how writing about the topic of grief surprised her. Also, a perspective about how “physical books are alive with memories” with a feature on Bookishness: Loving Books in a Digital Age by Jessica Pressman (Columbia University Press). People has an interview with Billie Jean King, All In (Knopf: Random House), about her “‘secret 2018 marriage and thoughts on new generation’s ‘fluid’ sexuality.”

NYT features the work of Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of Malibu Rising (Ballantine: Random House), "tapping into the desire among readers (and Hollywood) for escapism plus complexity".

Tor.com has an excerpt from Jordan Ifueko’s Redemptor (Amulet: Abrams). Lit Hub has an excerpt from Pastoral Song: A Farmer's Journey by James Rebanks (Custom House).

Shanora Williams, author of The Perfect Ruin (Dafina: Kensington), writes a piece for CrimeReads about how she used “fiction to demonstrate the power of therapy.” Also, Eleanor Henderson, Everything I Have Is Yours (Flatiron; LJ starred review), recommends “women’s memoirs at the intersection of chronic illness, mental illness, addiction, and trauma.” Plus, Elly Fishman, author of Refugee High: Coming of Age in America (New Pr.), writes about "aching for the American Dream: on writing the delicate stories of immigrant and refugee students." Jane Healey discusses "the power and perils of storytelling: how we make narrative out of predatory relationships" featuring My Dark Vanessa by Elizabeth Russell (Morrow), Consent by Vanessa Springora (HarperCollins), and The Comeback by Ella Berman (Berkley).

Tor.com lists “Five Sympathetic Science Fiction Bureaucrats” and “12 Authors Answer the Question “How Do You Write in Tough Times?””

NYT features "Joy, Flexibility and Bravery Land on the Best-Seller List."

The 2021 Pushkin House Russian Book Prize shortlist is announced.

Authors on Air

Emily Oster, author of The Family Firm: A Data-Driven Guide to Better Decision Making in the Early School Years (Penguin Pr.), speaks with the Keen On podcast about “how parents can use data to think more deliberately about the key issues of the elementary years: school, health, extracurricular activities, and more.”

George Packer, Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux: Macmillan), speaks with PBS New Hour about “how the pandemic exposes rifts in America that exist among religions, races and classes.”

A new Batman ‘89 (DC Comics: Random House) will be coming out in July 2022, based on Tim Burton’s movie that featured such stars as Prince, Jack Nicholson, and Michael Keaton. Entertainment Weekly has more.

Madeleine Westerhout discusses her book Off the Record: My Dream Job at the White House, How I Lost It, and What I Learned (Center Street: Hachette) with Fox & Friends and the importance of being honest about her story.

Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre featuring authors Nghi Vo of The Chosen and the Beautiful (Tor.com; LJ starred review) and Shelley Parker-Chan of She Who Became the Sun (Tor; LJ starred review) about “interrogating the canon of sci-fi and fantasy.”

Katie Kitamura, Intimacies (Riverhead), speaks with The Maris Review podcast about "the irony of language."

Lizzie Johnson, author of Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire (Crown: Random House; LJ starred review), discusses "California's deadly camp fire" on the Keen On podcast.

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