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Awards & Buzzy Book News

The 2022 Porchlight Business Book of the Year shortlist is announced.

The 2022 Xingyun Awards winners are announced, as reported by Locus Magazine.

Praveen Herat has won the 2022 Restless Book Prize for New Immigrant Writing for Between This World and the Next.

Maria Adolfsson has won the 2022 Petrona Award for the Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year for Fatal Isles, tr. by Anges Broomé.

NYT covers a book prize picked by inmates in French prisons, Prix Goncourt des détenus.

Poets & Writers covers “writers at risk” and “library links to banned books” in the newest issue. Plus, news about the audience growth for audiobooks.

Novelist Thomas Pynchon has sold his personal papers to the Huntington Library, according to NYT. The Los Angeles Times also covers this news.

ProPublica shares a study on the difficulties American adults have with literacy, and the programs designed to help them.

New Title Bestsellers

Links for the week: NYT Hardcover Fiction Best-Sellers | NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best-Sellers 

Fiction

Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy (Knopf) shines at No. 8 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best-Sellers list.

Tom Clancy: Red Winter by Marc Cameron (Putnam) begins at No. 9 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best-Sellers list.

Nonfiction

There are no new books selected for the nonfiction best-seller lists.

Reviews

  Locus Magazine reviews Valley of Shadows, by Rudy Ruiz (Blackstone): “Ruiz’s respectful treatment of the cultural and spiritual beliefs held by the indigenous and Mexican communities displaced by American expansionism adds depth and richness to what could easily have been a straightforward, albeit entertaining and gory, horror western.”  

NYT reviews The Tudors in Love: Passion and Politics in the Age of England’s Most Famous Dynasty by Sarah Gristwood (St. Martin's): “The royal household of France was the literary crucible of courtly love whose themes lie at the heart of Gristwood’s dense but compelling book; the 12th-century Countess Marie de Champagne had commissioned the bard Chrétien de Troyes to rework Arthurian legends into a modern romantic playbook.”

Lit Hub shares “The Best Reviewed Mystery and Crime Books of 2022.”

Briefly Noted

Evette Dionne, author of Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul (Ecco), talks to USA Today about fatphobia and body positivity. 

Fox News speaks to Harris Faulkner about “Christmas controversies” and her book Faith Still Moves Mountains (Broadside).

Jane Smiley, A Dangerous Business (Knopf), answers NYT’s “By the Book” questionnaire.

NYT’s “Inside the Best-Seller List” features Louise Penny and the new book she powered through on her planned year off from writing, A World of Curiosities (Minotaur; LJ starred review).

The Millions releases more end-of-the-year reading lists with recommendations by Edan Lepucki, author of Mothers Before: Stories and Portraits of Our Mothers as We Never Saw Them (Abrams); Alexander Chee, author of The Queen of the Night (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt); and Claire Dederer, who wrote the upcoming Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma (Knopf).

CrimeReads has “Five Thrillers About Forking Paths and the Choices That Upend Our Lives” and “The Best Noir Fiction of 2022.”

Vulture releases a list of the “Best Comedy Books of 2022.”

Poets & Writers selects the first lines from “new and noteworthy books.”

Lit Hub recommends 10 cookbooks from the past year.

NYT shares the best art books of 2022.

Authors on Air

Sam Lipsyte, author of No One Left To Come Looking for You (S. & S.), talks about “eliminating the desire to imitate other writers” on the Otherppl podcast.

NPR’s Fresh Air revisits two archived interviews including Octavia Butler, whose 1979 book Kindred (Beacon) has been recently adapted into a television series, speaking about “writing Black people and women into sci-fi,” and the recently deceased Marijane Meaker, who was known as “a pioneer of lesbian pulp fiction.”

Tsukasa Hojo’s manga City Hunter will be adapted into a live-action film for Netflix, according to The Hollywood Reporter. 

Good Morning America highlights all of the books recommended on The Book Case podcast, hosted by Kate and Charlie Gibson.

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