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Awards & Buzzy Books News

The National Book Foundation announces the 2022 5 Under 35 Honorees. Vulture further explores the list.

Brandon Taylor has won the Story Prize for Filthy Animals (Riverhead).

The Fortnum & Mason 2022 Food and Drink Awards shortlist is announced.

Amy Winehouse's library is currently on display at the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair, according to a press release.

Bitch Media is closing, according to Lit Hub.

USA Today highlights "juicy revelations" from recently published celebrity memoirs.

New Title Bestsellers

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

Fiction

The Flames of Hope (Wings of Fire, Book 15) by Tui T. Sutherland (Scholastic) crackles at No. 1 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel (Knopf) rises to No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Chainsaw Man, Vol. 10 by Tatsuki Fujimoto (VIZ) cuts to No. 2 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong (Penguin) begins at No 3 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

The Candy House by Jennifer Egan (Scribner; LJ starred review) eats up No. 4 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Jujutsu Kaisen, Vol. 15 by Gege Akutami (VIZ) slices No. 6 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Nightingale by A.L. Jackson sings at No. 8 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

True Biz by Sara Novic (Random) debuts at No. 10 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Lover Arisen by J.R. Ward (Gallery) shines at No. 10 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (Doubleday) heats up to No. 14 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li (Tiny Reparations Books) starts at No. 15 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Nonfiction

Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole by Susan Cain (Crown) debuts at No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Recessional: The Death of Free Speech and the Cost of a Free Lunch by David Mamet (Broadside) reaches No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Nowhere For Very Long: The Unexpected Road to an Unconventional Life by Brianna Madia (HarperOne) arrives at No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Blood and Ruins: The Last Imperial War, 1931-1945 by Richard Overy (Viking) begins at No. 7 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Reviews

NYT reviews The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures: A True Tale of Obsession, Murder, and the Movies by Paul Fischer (S. & S.): "eloquent, sometimes excitable writing style goes a long way when it doesn’t wander off into the celluloid weeds."

The Washington Post reviews Tasha: A Son's Memoir by Brian Morton (Avid Reader Pr: S. & S.): "stands as both a cri de coeur and vibrant testament — the painstaking, brave, generous piecing-together of a wildly difficult puzzle."

Oprah Daily reviews Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation by Hannah Gadsby (Ballantine; LJ starred review): “Gadsby’s voice is intimate and close, and spending time with it is a lot like listening to a good friend relay a fascinating life story over a couple of pints at the bar.” Also, Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart (Grove; LJ starred review): “greatest triumph is Stuart’s prose. He leans into the colloquial quirks and beauties of Glaswegian voices, the opposite of posh Queen’s English but equally rich. There’s jazz and bounce in his sentences—his cadences are rollicking, his dialogue often comic—but also a meticulous precision.”

Locus Magazine reviews Trouble the Waters: Tales From the Deep Blue edited by Sheree Renée Thomas, Pan Morigan, and Troy L. Wiggins (Third Man): “functions well on an indi­vidual story level and as a collective work, with its wide range of voices, identities, experiences, traditions, and styles, all united under specific yet open-ended themes. With so much diversity on display, every reader will find at least one story they love in this excellent collection. Speculative fiction fans looking to broaden their literary horizons and add new authors to their list of favorites would do well to pick up Trouble the Waters. It is a strong anthology from a trio of talented editors.” Also, The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd (Morrow): “a big global conspiracy based in weird historical arcana—but then fakes left and morphs into a highly personal tale of ambition, disappointment, betrayal, love and magic.”

Tor.com reviews Destiny of the Dead by Kel Kade (Tor: Macmillan): “offers a grander sense of just what the apocalyptic event facing the world is.”

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

Briefly Noted

Oprah Daily highlights newly released Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965-2000 edited by Valerie Boyd (S.&S.).

John Glatt chats with CrimeReads about his book The Doomsday Mother: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and the End of an American Family (St. Martin’s) and “writing about true crime as it unfolds.”

NYT's Inside the Best-Seller List explores "distinctive flair to the structure and tone" of Hannah Gadsby's Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation (Ballantine; LJ starred review).

The Washington Post interviews Molly Shannon about how she "throws herself into everything she does" including her memoir, Hello, Molly!, written with Sean Wilsey (Ecco).

Fox News covers a story about Prince Andrew featured in Tina Brown’s The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor–the Truth and the Turmoil (Crown).

Tor.com shares the third chapter of Siren Queen by Nghi Vo (Tordotcom; LJ starred review), due out May 10.

CrimeReads shares a list of “five great scifi novels that also happen to be pitch-black noirs.”

Authors on Air

Alexandra Billings, This Time for Me written with Joanne Gordon (Topple: Amazon), discusses "the surge in anti-trans legislation" with the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast.

Terry Gross interviews Delia Ephron, author of Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life (Little, Brown & Co.; LJ starred review) for NPR’s Fresh Air about “surviving cancer and the defiance of falling in love in your 70s.”

Julia May Jonas, Vladimir (Avid Reader: S. & S.), speaks to Brad Listi of the Otherppl podcast on “how playwriting informs her approach to building character.”

Emily St. John Mandel talks about "finding a sense of creative recklessness" in her newest book, Sea of Tranquility (Knopf) on the The Maris Review podcast.

J. David McSwane talks about “exposing the COVID capitalists and thieves who got rich while we got sick” and his book Pandemic, Inc.: Chasing the Capitalists and Thieves Who Got Rich While We Got Sick (Atria/OneSignal: S. & S.) with Andrew Keen on the Keen On podcast. Also, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, author of The Invention of Power: Popes, Kings, and the Birth of the West (PublicAffairs: Hachette), discusses “why China, Russia, and Iran aren’t Democracies."

Shirley Frondorf’s book Death of a Jewish American Princess: The True Story of a Victim on Trial will be adapted for a series, according to Deadline.

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