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March Reads & In Memoriam

NYT lists “14 Books Coming in March.”

CrimeReads shares “10 Crime Novels You Should Read This March.”

The Booker Prize Foundation revisits prize-winner titles of previous awards.

Richard Anobile, an author who wrote books about film, has died at 76. NYT has more.

New Title Bestsellers

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

Fiction

I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai (Viking; LJ starred review) begins at No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best-Sellers list.

Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide by Rupert Holmes (Avid Reader; LJ starred review) slices to No. 6 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best-Sellers list.

Burner by Mark Greaney (Berkley) lights up No. 7 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best-Sellers list.

The Last Kingdom by Steve Berry (Grand Central) starts at No. 8 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best-Sellers list.

The Writing Retreat by Julia Bartz (Atria: Emily Bestler) registers at No. 9 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best-Sellers list.

Nonfiction

It’s OK To Be Angry About Capitalism by Bernie Sanders, written with John Nichols (Crown), debuts at No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best-Sellers list.

All My Knotted-Up Life by Beth Moore (Tyndale House; LJ starred review) ties up No. 10 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best-Sellers list.

Reviews

NYT reviews We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir by Raja Shehadeh (Other Pr.): “A quiet and deeply felt book that illustrates how being dispossessed and being occupied are not merely legal or political conditions, but, perhaps more profoundly, psychological and emotional ones too.”

The Washington Post reviews Confronting Saddam Hussein: George W. Bush and the Invasion of Iraq, by Melvyn P. Leffler (Oxford Univ.): “An important and carefully crafted book, one that will hopefully open a serious scholarly conversation about one of the defining international events of the 21st century”; and After Sappho, by Selby Wynn Schwartz (Liveright: Norton): “As Schwartz fictionalizes the real bonds between real women, she invites us to imagine a still more sprawling network of lovers and ways of loving, a whole world that never quite existed but that, in these pages, always has.”

NPR’s Fresh Air reviews I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai (Viking; LJ starred review): “Both a thickly-plotted, character-driven mystery and a stylishly self-aware novel of ideas.”

The Los Angeles Times reviews Your Driver Is Waiting by Priya Guns (Doubleday): “It’s rare for a writer to marry such deep social consciousness with a comic, sultry romance, rarer still to pull that off in a way that satisfies and provokes the reader.”

Locus Magazine reviews The Origin of Storms: The Lotus Kingdom, Bk. Three by Adrienne Martini (Tor): “Questions our genre’s love of empire in fantasy epics while also tangibly demonstrat­ing why readers still respond to them.”

Tor.com reviews The Magician’s Daughter, by H.G. Parry (Redhook: Hachette): “If you’re looking for a book about found family, coming of age, and a tale with beautiful worldbuilding, then this is a book you should definitely pick up. And if you’re also looking for an adult book that reads like a fairy tale, where the plot is secondary to just wanting to spend time in this world and with these characters, then you should not only pick The Magician’s Daughter up but put it on the top of your TBR list.”

Book Marks provides “5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week.”

Briefly Noted

The Millions interviews Aleksandar Hemon about “his musical alter ego” and his new book, The World and All That It Holds (MCD).

NYT’s “Inside the Best-Seller List” takes a look at the world of recently published celebrity memoirs.

NPR host and author Ari Shapiro, The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening (HarperOne; LJ starred review), talks reading “cookbooks for comfort and pleasure” via NYT's “By the Book” inquiry.

Katie Lumsden, author of The Secrets of Hartwood Hall (Dutton), explores “how the Victorians created the modern English novel” in a piece for LIt Hub. 

NYT considers the 1973 photobook Wisconsin Death Trip, by Michael Lesy, on its 50th anniversary.

Lit Hub has a cover reveal for Quiet Street: An American Privilege by Nick McDonell (Pantheon).

Actor Chris Pine provides 15 books he “thinks everyone should read” via Esquire. 

Fatin Abbas, Ghost Season (Norton; LJ starred review), recommends “a reading list of the inbetween.”

Tor.com has “Ten Stories Featuring Haunted Corridors and Sinister Spaces” and “Five Tough, Rough, and Rugged Heinlein Stories.”

Authors on Air

V.V. Ganeshananthan chats with the Otherppl podcast how witnessing “political divisions and tensions” influenced the writing of her new book, Brotherless Night (Random)

Raghavan Iyer talks to NPR’s Ari Shapiro about “the healing power of food” and his new book, On the Curry Trail: Chasing the Flavor That Seduced the World (Workman).

Steven Kotler chats about the inspiration for his book, Gnar Country: Growing Old, Staying Rad (Harper Wave), to the Keen On podcast. Also featured is a conversation with Derek Leebaert about the subjects of his book, Unlikely Heroes: Franklin Roosevelt, His Four Lieutenants, and the World They Made (St. Martin’s).

Author Bruce Krajewski dives into the criticism of the film adapation of All Quiet on the Western Front and the Erich Maria Remarque book it is based on.

Michael Schulman discusses “the icons who shaped the Oscars” as detailed in his book, Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears (HarperCollins; LJ starred review) on The Maris Review podcast.

The McDonough Company has purchased the rights to adapt Brass & Unity: One Woman’s Journey Through the Hell of Afghanistan and Back, by Kelsi Sheren (Knox: S. & S.), the story of a former artillery gunner. Deadline has more on this news.

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