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Award News & Looking Ahead

Nominess for the 2022 European Union Prize for Literature (EUPL) are announced.

CrimeReads features “The Best New Crime Fiction Coming Out This Month.”

Tor.com shares “All the New Science Fiction Books Arriving in March!”

Amazon is closing brick and mortar bookstores, according to Lit Hub.

A new chapter for the Dr. Seuss Enterprise will feature diverse writers and illustrators. Many news sources cover this story including: NPR, PBS News Hour, Deadline, and NYT.

New Title Bestsellers

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

Fiction

The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley (Morrow) opens at No. 1 on both the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Nothing to Lose by J. A. Jance (Morrow) wins No. 8 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list and No. 12 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Caramel Pecan Roll Murder by Joanne Fluke (Kensington) debuts at No. 13 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 15 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Nonfiction

Find Your People: Building Deep Community in a Lonely World by Jennie Allen (WaterBrook) debuts at No. 11 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Happy Days: The Guided Path from Trauma to Profound Freedom and Inner Peace by Gabrielle Bernstein (Hay House) finds No. 12 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Coach K by Ian O’Connor (Mariner) scores No. 15 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Reviews

NYT reviews Aurelia, Aurélia: A Memoir by Kathryn Davis (Graywolf): “doesn’t care for the constraints of melody, but is nonetheless an entrancing song.” And, Checkout 19 by Claire-Louise Bennett (Riverhead): “is about a writer’s fervid encounters with writing, her own and others’. If you have grown weary of similar summaries on the covers of new books — that is, if you’ve had your fill of autofiction, thanks — don’t lose interest just yet.” Also, Spellbound by Marcel: Duchamp, Love, and Art by Ruth Brandon (Pegasus): “a delicious and deeply researched portrait of its time; Brandon mines the archives to establish who did whom when.” Plus, The Fell by Sarah Moss (FSG): "viewed as a study in repression and displacement, Moss’s defiantly uneventful novel becomes a psychological thriller." Additionally, there are a few short reviews about new thrillers featuring: Girl in Ice by Erica Ferencik (Gallery/Scout), The Long Weekend by Gilly Macmillan (Morrow), The Golden Couple by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen (Macmillan Audio), and Secret Identity by Alex Segura (Flatiron).

The Washington Post features short reviews for Women’s History Month “that celebrate female accomplishments” including: The Paris Bookseller by Kerri Maher (Berkley), Sisters of Night and Fog by Erika Robuck (Berkley), The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn (Morrow; LJ starred review), Her Hidden Genius by Marie Benedict (Sourcebooks Landmark), and The Tobacco Wives by Adele Meyers (HarperAudio). Plus, a review for The Beauty of Dusk: On Vision Lost and Found by Frank Bruni (Avid Reader: S. & S.): "his readers can discover through this memoir the inner strength to face their inevitable challenges, a renewed understanding of what others would say on their invisible sandwich boards, and a deeper well of compassion and kindness."

Briefly Noted

NoViolet Bulawayo, author of Glory (Viking), talks about how she “believes freedom begins with imagination” in an interview with NYT. 

Amy Bloom, In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss (Random), discusses her “excruciating journey after her ailing husband chose to die by assisted suicide” with People.

John Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Penguin Random House), will publish a sequel titled All The Broken Places. Lit Hub has more.

The Wall Street Journal Magazine profiles Marlon James, Moon Witch, Spider King (Riverhead), who "shares his ever-changing process, his passion for African mythology and a collection of his favorite things."

Betina González, American Delirium (Henry Holt: Macmillan), answers the Book Marks Questionnaire. 

Pankaj Mishra, author of Run and Hide (Farrar), answers NYT's By the Book questions.

Entertainment Weekly gives a first look at My Super Hero Is Black by John Jennings and Angélique Roché (Gallery: S. & S.) as “the other history of the Marvel Universe.”

Lit Hub features an excerpt from Mondegreen: Songs About Death and Love by Volodymyr Rafeyenko (Harvard).

Tor.com shares an excerpt from Drowning Practice by Mike Meginnis (Ecco).

NYT's Inside the Best-Seller List features This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Made Us by Cole Arthur Riley (Convergent; LJ starred review) as a book that "weaves three generations of family stories."

Lit Hub has a reading list for “the shifting unreliability of memory” and “later in life debuts.”

Tor.com provides “Six of the Most Compelling Voices in Fantasy.”

NYT lists "Audiobooks Explain Things to Me" and "Newly Published, From a Nixon Insider to Margaret Atwood."

Authors on Air

Andrew Keen interviews Kathy, The Helpers: Profiles from the Front Lines of the Pandemic (Norton), about “the different kinds of war we’re facing right now” for the Keen On podcast.

Stephen King announces that he will bring back the character of Holly Gibney in a new novel Holly, according to Entertainment Weekly covering the Kingcast podcast.

Sheila Heti, author of Pure Colour (FSG), discusses “expanding our notions of mourning” with Jordan Kisner for the Thresholds podcast.

NYT's Book Review podcast features Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age by Dennis Duncan (Norton; LJ starred revew) and The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb (Anchor).

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