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Awards & Spring Book News

Evelyn Araluen wins the 2022 Stella Prize for Dropbear (University of Queensland).

Lit Hub has "The 10 Best Book Covers of April."

CrimeReads provides "The Best Debut Crime Novels of the Month."

AudioFile shares the “Best Audiobooks of April.”

Esquire lists "The 30 Best Audiobooks of All Time."

NYT explores "book bans, from both the left and the right" and lists "14 New Books Coming in May."

Novelist Rolando Hinojosa-Smith has died at 93. NYT has more about his life and work.

New Title Bestsellers

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

Fiction

Dream Town by David Baldacci (Grand Central) arrives at No. 1 on both the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Beautiful by Danielle Steel (Delacorte) debuts at No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 3 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Kingdom of Bones by James Rollins (Morrow) climbs to No. 5 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 8 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Death of the Black Widow by James Patterson and J. D. Barker (Grand Central) begins at No. 5 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer by Janelle Monáe (Harper Voyager; LJ starred review) starts at No. 10 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Nonfiction

Playing With Myself by Randy Rainbow (St. Martin’s) shines at No. 5 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

What We Wish Were True: Reflections on Nurturing Life and Facing Death by Tallu Schuyler Quinn (Convergent) debuts at No. 12 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Deaf Utopia: A Memoir—and a Love Letter to a Way of Life by Nyle DiMarco, written with Robert Siebert (Morrow; LJ starred review) begins at No. 13 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Reviews

NYT reviews Trust by Hernan Diaz (Riverhead): "recognizes the human costs of a great fortune, even though its characters can see nothing beyond their own calculations; they are most guilty when most innocent, most enthralled by the abstraction of money itself." Also, short reviews of historical fiction about war including: The Pages by Hugo Hamilton (Knopf), Life Sentences by Billy O'Callaghan (Godine), and The Stone World by Joel Agee (Melville). 

The Washington Post reviews Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases by Paul Holes (Celadon): “Although he gives the GSK the most ink, Holes also reveals bits and pieces about other sensational cases, including the murders of Laci Peterson and Polly Klaas, and the kidnapping of Jaycee Dugard.” Also, The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures: A True Tale of Obsession, Murder, and the Movies by Paul Fischer (S. & S.): “the book’s real strength is not its crime-solving (Fischer concludes with a plausible if not provable suspect); it’s the way Fischer, who is also a film producer, helps us see how revelatory motion pictures were at the time.”

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

Briefly Noted

Soon Wiley, When We Fell Apart (Dutton), talks to CrimeReads about “craft and character.”

USA Today interviews Terry Crews about his memoir, Tough: My Journey to True Power (Portfolio: PRH).

Adriana Trigiani, author of The Good Left Undone (Dutton; LJ starred review), answers NYT's By the Book Questionnaire. 

NYT's Inside the Best-Seller List highlights the work of Sara Novic, True Biz (Random), as she "writes about sex, drugs and sign language."

USA Today explores this week's best-seller list.

FoxNews covers news about The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor--the Truth and the Turmoil (Crown) and Prince William and Queen Elizabeth.

Tor.com has “Five SFF Stories That Are Much Funnier Than They Sound.” 

Lit Hub shares a reading list “based on your favorite Lizzo song," “a bell hooks book for every season of life," and "A Gilded Age Reading List."

Authors on Air

Terry Gross interviews Jessi Klein, author of I’ll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood (Harper), about “the disorienting experience of new motherhood” for NPR’s Fresh Air.

The Hollywood Reporter talks to Rachel McAdams and her role in the newest adaptation of Judy Blume’s Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret (Atheneum: S. & S.).

Jon Krakauer speaks about the adaptation of his book, Under the Banner of Heaven (Anchor), to Dustin Lance Black, the creator of the show. NYT has published their interview.

Jeff VanderMeer, Hummingbird Salamander (MCD: Farrar), discusses “our dangerous disconnect from nature” with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds podcast.

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