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The third edition of Lee & Low Books’ quadrennial “Diversity Baseline Survey” found that the publishing industry has made incremental progress in broadening its workforce, Publishers Weekly reports. NYT and Shelf Awareness also have coverage.

AudioFile shares the best audiobooks of February.

“With the Novel Prize, Three Anglophone Publishers Team to Champion Innovative Fiction,” Publishers Weekly reports.

British poet and novelist Alan Brownjohn has died at age 92. Shelf Awareness has an obituary.

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 Chaos Agent by Mark Greaney (Berkley) stirs up No. 10 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best-Seller list.

The Atlas Maneuver by Steve Berry (Grand Central) maneuvers to No. 13 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best-Seller list.

Nonfiction

Worthy: How To Believe You Are Enough and Transform Your Life by Jamie Kern Lima (Hay House) takes No. 2 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Mostly What God Does: Reflections on Seeking and Finding His Love Everywhere by Savannah Guthrie (Thomas Nelson) finds No. 4 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory’s Power To Hold on to What Matters by Charan Ranganath (Doubleday) unlocks No. 5 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best-Seller list.

Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story by Leslie Jamison (Little, Brown) chops down No. 7 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best-Seller list.

It’s Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People by Ramani Durvasula (The Open Field) earns No. 8 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life by Lyz Lenz (Crown) starts at No. 9 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best-Seller list.

Reviews

Washington Post reviews The Freaks Came Out To Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture by Tricia Romano (PublicAffairs): “The book re-creates the feel of chatter in a newsroom…. The text is created almost entirely from quotes from former staffers, which are woven together into short, rhythmic chapters organized around themes from the newspaper’s sections (sports, culture); unique writers (Lester Bangs); and internal fights”; Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz by József Debreczeni, tr. by Paul Olchváry (St. Martin’s): “József Debreczeni’s Cold Crematorium, published in Hungarian in Yugoslavia in 1950 and only now translated into English and several other languages, still has the power to shock as well as enlighten us”; Great Expectations by Vinson Cunningham (Hogarth): “But despite the novel’s steady drip of astute observations about Obama and his groundbreaking campaign, the excellent view David gives us is relentlessly introspective”; and In Ascension by Martin MacInnes (Black Cat): “From the depths of the ocean to the vastness of space, Martin MacInnes’s novel, In Ascension, strives for a sense of cosmic awe by grappling with the origins of life and the mysteries of the universe while grounding readers in the grim reality of Earth’s depleted resources.”

Briefly Noted

Actor Jenny Slate will publish a new essay collection, Lifeform, with Little, Brown on Oct. 22, People reports.

Actor Jamie Lee Curtis will narrate the audiobook edition of American Mother, written by novelist Colum McCann with Diane Foley (Bloomsbury/Etruscan), Kirkus reports.

NYT goes “Inside the Best-Seller List” with Billy Dee Williams’s What Have We Here?: Portraits of a Life (Knopf).

The Guardian recommends “five of the best books to understand the Israel-Palestine conflict.”

LitHub shares a booklist about reproductive rights.

Reactor rounds up “Can’t-Miss Indie Press Speculative Fiction for March and April 2024.”

CrimeReads identifies “mysteries where the sleuth is wrongly accused.”

Authors on Air

Today, NPR’s Fresh Air will host Bradley Onishi, author of Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism—and What Comes Next (Broadleaf).

Rachel Bitecofer, author of Hit ’Em Where It Hurts: How To Save Democracy by Beating Republicans at Their Own Game (Crown), talks to LitHub’s Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast.

Shelf Awareness rounds up the schedule for this weekend’s Book TV on C-SPAN 2, which will include coverage of the 2024 Rancho Mirage Writers Festival.

R.F. Kuang’s Babel (Harper Voyager) has been optioned for a screen adaptation, Reactor reports.

William Gibson’s Neuromancer (Ace) is getting a series adaptation; Reactor has the news.

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