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Awards & Book News

Winners are announced for Taste Canada Awards for cookbooks and food writing, CBC reports.

Finalists are also out for Canada’s National Business Book Awards. CBC has coverage.

The Southern Book Prize finalists are revealed, representing “bookseller favorites from 2023 that are Southern in nature—either about the South or by a Southern writer.” Shelf Awareness has the news.

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 Secret by Lee Child and Andrew Child (Delacorte) steals No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 6 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward (Scribner; LJ starred review) rises to No. 5 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 15 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

King of Greed by Ana Huang (Bloom) is enthroned at No. 11 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Nonfiction

The Woman in Me by Britney Spears (Gallery) takes No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list and on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Romney: A Reckoning by McKay Coppins (Scribner) reckons with No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

If You Would Have Told Me by John Stamos, with Daphne Young (Holt), speaks to No. 4 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

The Pioneer Woman Cooks—Dinner’s Ready!: 112 Fast and Fabulous Recipes for Slightly Impatient Home Cooks by Ree Drummond (Morrow Cookbooks) heats up No. 7 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things by Adam Grant (Viking) achieves No. 8 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World by Mary Beard (Liveright: Norton) rules No. 9 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

How To Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen by David Brooks (Random) greets No. 12 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

The Growth Leader: Strategies To Drive the Top and Bottom Lines by Scott K. Edinger (Fast Company Pr.) grows to No. 13 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Reviews

NYT reviews Same Bed Different Dreams by Ed Park (Random; LJ starred review): “Struts confidently across registers—lyrical, deadpan, acerbic, comedic—while doling out clues.”

LA Times reviews The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture by Courtney Thorsson (Columbia Univ.): “Thorsson recognizes extraordinary personal achievements, but her book is a testament to the power of the collective.”

USA Today reviews The Reformatory by Tananarive Due (Gallery/Saga; LJ starred review): “The novel doesn’t flinch from the terrors of the time, forcing you to see fully the injustices so many have faced then and even now. But it’s not a hopeless tale.”

LitHub selects “5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week.”

Briefly Noted

NYT investigates what goes into selecting a celebrity reader for an audiobook.

NYT’s “Inside the Best-Seller List” focuses on Hannah Grace, limelight-eschewing author of Wildfire (Atria).

The Rumpus has a Q&A with Angela Tucker, author of “You Should Be Grateful”: Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption (Beacon).

LA Times talks to Bri Luna about her debut book, Blood, Sex, Magic: Everyday Magic for the Modern Mystic (HarperOne).

Vanity Fair interviews Aaliyah Bilal, author of the National Book Award finalist Temple Folk (S. & S.).

Jeff Tweedy, author of World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music (Dutton), takes NYT’s “By the Book” survey.

Electric Lit speaks with Melissa Broder, author of Death Valley (Scribner), as does The Guardian.

Washington Post recommends 10 noteworthy books for November and December.

Kirkus highlights recent outstanding books from Canadian small press Biblioasis.

The Rumpus shares six new queer poetry collections that interrogate gender.

LitHub selects November’s best sci-fi and fantasy books and a reading list of books that put the Asian experience of World War II at center stage.

LA Times lists the 18 best nonfiction books for fans of Madonna, memoirs or cultural histories.

Tor.com locates “Five SF Visions of Society Free From Rules, Regulations, or Effective Government.”

Vulture identifies “9 Great Audiobooks to Listen to This Month.”

AARP highlights “What to Read in November and Other Book News.”

BookRiot shares 10 new mystery, thriller, and true crime books for November 2023 armchair sleuthing.

“TikTok Has Spoken: You Need to Read These 34 Books ASAP,” Popsugar writes.

Authors on Air

NPR’s All Things Considered talks to Diana Helmuth, author of The Witching Year: A Memoir of Earnest Fumbling Through Modern Witchcraft (S. & S./Simon Element).

A24 is developing TikTok-famous “Magnolia Parks” novels, self-published by Jessa Hastings, into a TV series, Deadline reports.

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