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January Book Clubs

Reese Witherspoon picks The House in the Pines by Ana Reyes (Dutton). 

GMA selects Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor (Riverhead; LJ starred review).

B&N picks The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff (Ballantine; LJ starred review).

The Read with Jenna pick is Sam by Allegra Goodman (Dial). 

Target promotes In the Time of Our History by Susanne Pari (A John Scognamiglio Book: Kensington) for book clubs.

Amazon’s Sarah Selects chooses With Love from London by Sarah Jio (Ballantine).

News, Awards, & 2023 Previews

Prince Harry will visit CBS 60 Minutes on Sunday to give his first U.S. television interview to discuss his memoir which publishes January 10. NYT reports how Britain is preparing for the upcoming publicity. Vanity Fair also has coverage. 

The 2021 Emeka Walter Dinjos Awards for Disability in Speculative Fiction are announced. Locus has details. 

Filippo Bernardini will plead guilty to wire fraud in manuscript theft case, NYT reports.

Publishing Perspectives has an interview with outgoing president of the International Publishers Association, Bodour Al Qasimi.

Today offers “38 new books we can't wait to read in 2023.”

Vulture previews “31 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2023.”

Shondaland shares "The Best Books for January 2023."

Reviews

NYT reviews Sam by Allegra Goodman (Dial): “Goodman delivers a portrait of a girl at risk that shimmers with an unusual intimacy and depth.” The Washington Post also reviews: “Although Goodman writes in the third person, she never strays from the girl’s table-high view, an angle that shrouds adults’ thoughts but illuminates the child’s realm of rules and wonders.”

LA Times reviews Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor (Riverhead; LJ starred review): “Kapoor’s novel is also a sprawling, ambitious work of social realism, in which the culture and conditions of modern Delhi contextualize the rise of the Wadia family crime syndicate. It’s a riveting spectacle, but the balance between Kapoor’s two imperatives — gangster epic and social novel — feels off-kilter.”

The Guardian reviews The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis (Knopf): “The Shards isn’t just Ellis’s strongest novel since the 90s, it’s a full-spectrum triumph, incorporating and subverting everything he’s done before and giving us, if we follow the book’s ingenious, gleefully self-aware conceit, nothing less than the Ellis origin story.”

Briefly Noted

LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for Without a Trace by Danielle Steel (Delacorte), the top holds title of the week. 

NYT suggests 4 newly published titles. 

The Millions highlights notable new releases. 

Vogue highlights “18 Cookbooks That Everyone Should Own.”

Publishers Weekly compiles “Key Titles By or About Benedict XVI.”

The Atlantic recommends “Eight Self-Help Books That Actually Help.”

PopSugar suggests 13 coffee table books. 

The Millions talks about English in the real world with Bryan A. Garner, whose 5th edition of Garner's Modern English Usage (Oxford Univ. Pr.), is out now. 

Hiromi Kawakami leads a literary tour through Tokyo for NYT. 

LA Times remembers novelist and playwright Cai Emmons, who died Monday at the age of 71.

Authors on Air

NPR’s Code Switch revisits How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America with author Priya Fielding-Singh (Little, Brown, Spark).

NPR’s Fresh Air talks with acclaimed editor Robert Gottlieb about editing, working with Robert Caro, and more. 

CJ Sansom’s bestselling "Shardlake" novels will be adapted at Disney+. Deadline reports.

NYT reports on how the new TV adaptation, Three Pines, based on the "Chief Inspector Gamache" book series by Louise Penny, addresses Indigenous suffering. 

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