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Awards & Book News

Reese’s Book Club picks Xochitl Gonzalez’s Anita de Monte Laughs Last (Flatiron) as its next read. Kirkus has the news.

The winners of the Bancroft Prize for history books are announced: Elliott West’s Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion (Univ. of Nebraska) and Carolyn Woods Eisenberg’s Fire and Rain: Nixon, Kissinger and the Wars in Southeast Asia (Oxford Univ.). NYT has the announcement.

Julian Jackson wins the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize for France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain (Belknap).

Baen Books has announced the finalists for the 2024 Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award, Locus announces.

New Title Bestsellers

Fiction

Three-Inch Teeth (Joe Pickett Bk. 24) by C.J. Box (Putnam) bites into No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best-Seller list and on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

A Fate Inked in Blood by Danielle L. Jensen (Del Rey: Ballantine) inks in No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best-Seller list and on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange (Knopf) shines at No. 6 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list and No. 7 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best-Seller list.

After Annie by Anna Quindlen (Random) takes No. 11 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best-Seller list.

Nonfiction

Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans by Peter Schweizer (Harper) reaches No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best-Seller list and No. 4 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list, though some booksellers report receiving bulk orders.

Burn Book: A Tech Love Story by Kara Swisher (S. & S.) ignites No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best-Seller list.

We’ve Got Issues: How You Can Stand Strong for America’s Soul and Sanity by Dr. Phil (Threshold) stands at No. 7 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America by Barbara McQuade (Seven Stories) attacks No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best-Seller list.

Grief Is for People by Sloane Crosley (MCD) achieves No. 6 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best-Seller list.

White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy by Tom Schaller & Paul Waldman (Random) rages at No. 7 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best-Seller list.

The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing by Lara Love Hardin (S. & S.) steals No. 14 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best-Seller list, though some booksellers report receiving bulk orders.

It’s Hard for Me To Live With Me: A Memoir by Rex Chapman with Seth Davis (S. & S.) hits No. 15 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best-Seller list, though some booksellers report receiving bulk orders.

Reviews

NYT reviews The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels by Pamela Prickett & Stefan Timmermans (Crown): “The sociologists…spent nearly a decade examining the bureaucracy and mechanics of the unclaimed dead…. They have come away with an admirable work both cleareyed and disturbing, yet pulsing with empathy”; Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport (Portfolio): “These recommendations sound appealing, though the individuals who need to hear them most are perhaps not the burned-out knowledge workers in Newport’s audience but the people who control the means of paying them”; and 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool by James Kaplan (Penguin Pr.; LJ starred review): “Kaplan has framed 3 Shades of Blue as both a chronicle of a golden age and a lament for its decline and fall. One doesn’t have to accept the decline-and-fall part to acknowledge that he has done a lovely job of evoking the golden age.”

NPR reviews Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzalez (Flatiron): “Elegantly written and constructed, Gonzalez’s second novel brilliantly surpasses the promise of her popular debut Olga Dies Dreaming…. Anita de Monte Laughs Last is complex and cohesive, social criticism flowing organically from character and story.”

Washington Post reviews The Hunter by Tana French (Viking): “The Hunter is a singularly tense and moody thriller, but it’s also an exceptional novel because of its structure. For most of its substantial length, the plot unfolds through conversations”; Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood by Gretchen Sisson (St. Martin’s): “Sisson vividly renders a world where children are treated like consumer products and shifted around ‘for the benefit of others’ family-making desires and a lucrative industry’”; and Change by Édouard Louis, tr. by John Lambert (Farrar; LJ starred review): “Louis is not only refreshingly uninterested in engaging his readers’ sympathies; his aim often seems to be actively to provoke our indignation, to challenge the prejudices he imagines his bourgeois readers to hold.”

The Guardian reviews Until August by Gabriel García Márquez, tr. by Anne McLean (Knopf): “Until August is a sketch, as blurry and flawed as sketches generally are, but a sketch from a master is welcome. This slight book is like a faded souvenir, tatty but treasurable for its associations with the fabulous imaginary world that Márquez conjured up in his prime.”

Briefly Noted

Armistead Maupin, Mona of the Manor (Harper; LJ starred review), answers NYT’s “By the Book” questionnaire.

LitHub hosts a conversation between Rachel Lyon, author of Fruit of the Dead (Scribner), and Leslie Jamison, author of Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story (Little, Brown), on their “separate but related” books.

The Millions has a “Writers on Writers” interview with Olga Ravn, author of My Work (New Directions), discussing “the compositional fearlessness of Doris Lessing.”

Publishers Weekly talks to Noah Feldman, author of To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People (Farrar).

NYT goes “Inside the Best-Seller List” with This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life by Lyz Lenz (Crown).

The Guardian chooses the best book that inspired an Academy Awards Best Picture nominee and recommends “five of the best books about democracy in crisis.”

Vulture has “a guide to the most esoteric, yet formative, pop culture references in RuPaul’s memoir,” The House of Hidden Meanings (Dey Street; LJ starred review).

CrimeReads shares a “women behaving badly” reading list and explores “the enduring appeal of the suburban gothic.”

Reactor lists all the new science fiction books arriving in March.

Authors on Air

BBC has acquired the crime drama Rebus, based on Ian Rankin’s Inspector Rebus novels. Hollywood Reporter has the news.

MGM+ has given the green light to Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue, a mystery limited series written, created, and executive produced by novelist Anthony Horowitz, Deadline reports.

LitHub’s Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast talks to Briallen Hopper, author of Hard To Love: Essays and Confessions (Bloomsbury).

Today, NPR’s Fresh Air will interview Ed Zwick, author of Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood (Gallery).

Shelf Awareness rounds up the schedule for this weekend’s Book TV on C-SPAN 2.

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