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Awards & Book News

British graphic novelist Posy Simmonds wins the Grand Prix at the Angoulême International Comics Festival, The Guardian reports, while NYT writes about the state of the graphic novel in France.

The shortlist for the Gordon Burn Prize is announced. The Guardian has coverage.

The longlist for the Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize for young writers, aged 39 or under, is released. The Bookseller has the news.

The Guardian reports on concerns about censorship in last year’s Hugo Awards, which were hosted in China.

New Title Best Sellers

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

Fiction

The Fury by Alex Michaelides (Celadon; LJ starred review) burns to No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best-Seller List and No. 4 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett (Del Rey: Ballantine) scouts out No. 9 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best-Seller List and No. 11 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Midnight Ruin by Katee Robert (Sourcebooks Casablanca) shines at No. 14 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Nonfiction

Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity by Michele Norris (S. & S.) takes No. 8 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best-Seller List.

More: A Memoir of Open Marriage by Molly Roden Winter (Doubleday; LJ starred review) achieves No. 11 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best-Seller List.

Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus. Become Like Him. Do as He Did. by John Mark Comer (WaterBrook) hits No. 12 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Come Hungry: Salads, Meals, and Sweets for People Who Live To Eat by Melissa Ben-Ishay (Morrow Cookbooks; LJ starred review) reaches No. 13 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Reviews

NPR’s Fresh Air reviews Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar (Knopf): “Martyr! is so much its own creation that comparisons don't help. Maybe you could think of it as something of an Iranian American spin on John Kennedy Toole’s comic picaresque A Confederacy of Dunces, wedded to Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch.”

NYT reviews “4 New Horror Novels That Are as Fresh as They Are Terrifying”: Midnight on Beacon Street by Emily Ruth Verona (Harper Perennial), This Wretched Valley by Jenny Kiefer (Quirk; LJ starred review), The House of Last Resort by Christopher Golden (St. Martin’s), and Womb City by Tlotlo Tsamaase (Erewhon Bks.).

LA Times reviews “4 chilling debut thrillers to get you through the winter”: Smoke Kings by Jahmal Mayfield (Melville House), Radiant Heat by Sarah-Jane Collins (Berkley; LJ starred review), Nightwatching by Tracy Sierra (Pamela Dorman: Viking), and Anna O by Matthew Blake (Harper).

LitHub selects “5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week.”

Briefly Noted

Elton John will publish Farewell Yellow Brick Road: Memories of My Life on Tour with Hyperion Avenue on Sept. 24, Publishers Weekly reports.

Kirkus has the news that former presidential candidate Tom Steyer will publish Cheaper, Faster, Better: How We’ll Win the Climate War with Spiegel & Grau this spring.

People has details from ice skater Gracie Gold’s memoir Outofshapeworthlessloser (Crown).

Washington Post talks to Paul Theroux about his new novel, Burma Sahib (Mariner).

NYT goes “Inside the Best-Seller List” with C.J. Box’s Joe Pickett and Cassie Dewell series.

Dan Jones, author of Wolves of Winter (Viking), answers NYT’s “By the Book” questionnaire.

Publishers Weekly publishes several panels from Dave Maass and Patrick Lay’s Death Strikes: The Emperor of Atlantis (Berger Bks.), “a grim, albeit comical, allegorical anti-war graphic novel.”

Deadline shares details about director Michael Mann’s second thriller novel, cowritten by Edgar-winning author Meg Gardiner.

For CrimeReads, Joyce Tremel (author of the “Cider House” mysteries”) asks around the cozy mystery community “to find out all the reasons readers return to these gems again and again.”

CrimeReads recommends “Strange Tales That Complicate the Picture of Texas.”

Reactor (aka Tor.com) highlights “Five SFF Works Featuring Noble Lies and Useful Prevarications.”

Authors on Air

Ed Park, author of Same Bed Different Dreams (Random; LJ starred review), talks to LitHub’s Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast.

In an interview with LitHub, Megan Hunter discusses the experience of adapting her 2018 novel The End We Start From (Grove; LJ starred review) for the screen.

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