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Awards News & Looking Ahead

The Royal Society of Literature’s 2022 Ondaatje Prize longlist is announced.

The 2021 Aurealis Awards shortlist is announced.

The Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing finalists are announced.

NYT features women authors who are prominent in the International Booker Prize shortlist.

Tor.com lists “All the New Science Fiction Books Arriving in April!”

Micheal Dirda of The Washington Post declares April “mystery book month” and shares what he’d read.

New Title Bestsellers

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

Fiction

What Happened to the Bennetts by Lisa Scottoline (Putnam) debuts at No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 8 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn (Morrow; LJ starred review) shines on No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Nana Loves You More by Jimmy Fallon (Macmillan) begins at No. 10 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Nonfiction

Half Baked Harvest Every Day: Recipes for Balanced, Flexible, Feel-Good Meals: A Cookbook by Tieghan Gerard (Clarkson Potter) cuts No. 1 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

The Mothers and Daughters of the Bible Speak: Lessons on Faith from Nine Biblical Families by Shannon Bream (Broadside) rises to No. 3 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation by Hannah Gadsby (Ballantine; LJ starred review) starts at No. 6 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Sicker in the Head: More Conversations About Life and Comedy by Judd Apatow (Random) debuts at No. 12 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Reviews

NYT reviews The Candy House by Jennifer Egan (Scribner; LJ starred review): “given its subject matter, it might be better to describe it as a social network, the literary version of the collaborative novel written by your friends and friends of friends on Facebook or Instagram, each link opening on a new protagonist. It is a spectacular palace built out of rabbit holes.” Also, Entertainment Weekly reviews The Candy House by Jennifer Egan (Scribner; LJ starred review): “for all its dips and spins and cul-de-sacs, its brain-weevil gadgets and future shocks, does what only the best and rarest books can: peel back the thin membrane of ordinary life, and find transcendence on the other side.” Giving it a: Grade: A-.

The Washington Post reviews This Time for Me by Alexandra Billings (Topple: Amazon): "Though she has been mistreated by society over most of her lifetime, her memoir is a model of grace and compassion, showing the world what it means to be misunderstood, and how we can do better to welcome humans of every stripe."

Locus Magazine reviews Galaxias by Stephen Baxter (Hachette): “The book’s thinking-through of the events and machineries of its densely imagined world is thorough and convincing – but it does not always make for a fleet footed story line.”

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

Briefly Noted

The Millions interviews Emily St. John Mandel, author of Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel (Knopf).

The Los Angeles Times speaks to Steve Erickson about his “primal diary” American Stutter: 2019-2021 (Zerogram), about the Trump presidency. 

Clint Hill, a former Secret Service agent, talks to People about his upcoming book My Travels with Mrs. Kennedy (Gallery: S. & S.), sharing “rare photos and stories from their travels.”

Samantha Hunt, The Unwritten Book (Farrar), discusses revisiting her "haunted childhood home" with the NYT. 

NYT's Inside the Best-Seller List explores lessons from "celebrity couples of yore" and Stephen Galloway's book Truly, Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and the Romance of the Century (Grand Central).

USA Today covers the best seller lists including the uptick in Will Smith's book Will (Penguin) after the Oscar's incident, and Half Baked Harvest Every Day: Recipes for Balanced, Flexible, Feel-Good Meals: A Cookbook by Tieghan Gerard (Clarkson Potter).

Oprah Daily shares a cover reveal of Celeste Ng’s newest book, Our Missing Hearts (Penguin).

Lit Hub has a cover reveal for Lark Ascending by Silas House (Algonquin). 

CrimeReads lists 9 "historical novels featuring real people of the past as main characters."

Tor.com provides “5 Books to Pair With a Good Cup of Tea” and “Must-Read Speculative Short Fiction for March 2022.”

Lit Hub gives a reading list aimed “toward an alternative canon of trauma literature.”

Oprah Daily lists “Women Whose Book Thrill and Leave You Breathless.”

Authors on Air

Thresholds podcast speaks with adrienne maree brown, author of Grievers (AK Press), on “what it looks like to organize with integrity.”

NPR’s Morning Edition interviews Héctor Rodríguez, the creator of a Mexican American superhero El Peso Hero who saves Ukrainian civilians.

Paranormal Hitmen by Brett Murphy (Behemoth Entertainment: S. & S.) will receive a television series adaptation by eOne. Deadline has the exclusive.

Manuel Garcia-Rulfo will star in the adaptation of Michael Connelly’s The Lincoln Lawyer (Grand Central), according to People.

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