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Awards & Book Challenges

 Tracie D. Hall, Executive Director of the American Library Association, has received the 2022 Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community from the National Book Foundation. The L.A. Times has the news.  

The 2022 New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association Books of the Year winners are announced, according to Shelf Awareness. 

The 2022 Dragon Awards Winners are announced, according to Locus Magazine. 

Sarah Pinsker has won the 2022 Eugie Award for Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather. 

Chris Kulp has won the 2022 Mike Resnick Memorial Award for What Would You Pay for a Second Chance?

A Florida teacher has started a nonprofit in support of banned books, according to Fox News. 

The 2023 North American Science Fiction Convention will be held in Canada.

The New York Times Magazine explores "how book bans turned a Texas town upside down."

The September EarlyWord GalleyChat is out, featuring titles that are “Heating Up."

New Title Bestsellers

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

Fiction

Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Ballantine; LJ starred review) scores No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 7 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith (Mulholland) debuts at No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 3 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen (St. Martin’s) flies to No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney (Flatiron) shines at No. 5 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

The Final Gambit by Jennifer Lynn Barnes (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers) begins at No. 5 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Nonfiction

The Great Reset by Alex Jones (Skyhorse) starts at No. 10 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Operation Pineapple Express by Scott Mann (S. & S.) redeems No. 13 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Reviews

NYT reviews How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water by Angie Cruz (Flatiron): “a taut and poignant novel centered around a 56-year-old Dominican woman grappling with motherhood, acceptance and loss in the midst of the Great Recession, in New York City.” Also, In Search of Mary Seacole by Helen Rappaport (Pegasus): “a comprehensive and much-deserved tribute to an incredible life.” And, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us by Rachel Aviv (Farrar): "delicately balances two truths that prove remarkably difficult to hold in tandem. We all have our own minds, our own experiences, our own suffering; we are also social creatures who live among others, and social forces have at least some bearing on how we understand who we are." Plus, three short reviews of debut novels including: Meet Us by the Roaring Sea by Akil Kumarasamy (Farrar), The Last Karankawas by Kimberly Garza (Henry Holt & Co.), Mother in the Dark by Kayla Maiuri (Riverhead). Finally, three more short reviews of climate fiction with “visions for environmental justice” including: Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman (Soho), Denial by Jon Raymond (S. & S.), and 40 by Alan Heathcock (MCD).

The Washington Post reviews People Person by Candice Carty-Williams (Gallery/Scout: S. & S.): "The array of Black identities, personalities and body types Carty-Williams depicts is refreshing and honest, a far cry from hackneyed media portrayals that present Blackness as a monolith."

Entertainment Weekly reviews Fairy Tale by Stephen King (Scribner), giving it a B: “an enjoyable journey into the kind of realm King seemed to have abandoned some time ago. Certainly fans of the author's previous fantasy work can look forward to living happily, if not ever after, then at least until they finish the book.”

Oprah Daily reviews The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell (Knopf): “beautifully frames the chasms that open up between husband and wife, implicating an institution that has galvanized our canonical writers.” Also, The Storm is Here: An American Crucible by Luke Mogelson (Penguin): “This remarkable work of reportage weaves together the strands of MAGA Nation: fundamentalist Christianity, a broad suspicion of government, and the insidious racism exposed by the George Floyd demonstrations, tensions fanned by a sluggish economy and a raging pandemic.”

CrimeReads reviews The Turquoise Shop by Frances Crane (Penzler: Norton): “provides a time travel experience back to a simpler and fascinating world.”

Book Marks has "5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week."

Briefly Noted

The Millions explores the work of environmental writer Doug Peacock, including his recently published work Was it Worth It? (Patagonia: Ingram). 

NYT's Inside the Best-Seller List speaks to William Kent Krueger about how is "BFF with his most famous character" in Fox Creek (Atria; LJ starred review).

The New York Times Style Magazine’s T Book Club revisits E.L. Doctorow’s “hewing to the historical record and sometimes going his own way” in his book Ragtime (Modern Library). 

The Washington Post’s Michael Dirda explores his summer reading list.

Tor.com has an excerpt from Ann Dávila Cardinal’s The Storyteller's Death (Sourcebooks).

Fox News reports on the response to J.K. Rowling’s new mystery novel, The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith (Mulholland). 

Karen Armstrong, author of Sacred Nature: Restoring Our Ancient Bond with the Natural World (Knopf), fills out the NYT's By the Book questionnaire.

USA Today highlights the week's best sellers list.

Lit Hub has “22 Novels You Need to Read This Fall.”

Book Marks shares "AudioFile's Best Audiobooks of August."

Tor.com offers “5 SFF Books About Strange Houses” and “Five Stories Featuring Mutant Protagonists.”

Lola Jaye, author of The Attic Child (Morror), recommends "readings from contemporary Nigeria."

NYT shares many lists for fall reading including: “newly published," "33 Works of Fiction and Poetry," "15 Memoirs and Biographies," and "15 Works of Nonfiction."

Authors on Air

Mercedes Lackey’s "Valdemar" book series will be adapted for television and developed by the Universal Studio Group, according to Deadline.

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