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Awards & Book News

Benjamin Myers wins the Goldsmiths Prize for his novel Cuddy (Bloomsbury). The Guardian has the news.

Mosab Abu Toha wins the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry for his debut collection, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza (City Lights Publishers).

Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China’s Cultural Revolution by Tania Branigan (Norton) wins the Cundill History Prize. The Guardian has reporting.

The winners of the Books Are My Bag Readers Awards are announced.

The longlist for the Aspen Words Literary Prize for issue-driven fiction is announced, Publishing Perspectives reports.

Librarians are filing workplace discrimination claims with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to oppose book bans and their firings, LA Times reports.

New Title Best Sellers

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

Fiction

Dirty Thirty by Janet Evanovich (Atria) racks up No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 4 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

A Fire in the Flesh by Jennifer L. Armentrout (Evil Eye Concepts) burns up No. 9 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Absolution by Alice McDermott (Farrar) takes No. 9 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Nonfiction

Big Heart Little Stove: Bringing Home Meals & Moments from the Lost Kitchen by Erin French (Celadon) brings home No. 7 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Renegade: Defending Democracy and Liberty in Our Divided Country by Adam Kinzinger, written with Michael D’Antonio, (The Open Field), defends No. 8 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Connecting to the Future: A Blueprint for Dynamic Leadership by Mohammed Alardhi (S. & S./Simon Element) connects to No. 11 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Being Henry: The Fonz…and Beyond by Henry Winkler (Celadon) jumps to No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list and No. 12 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Be Seen: Find Your Voice. Build Your Brand. Live Your Dream by Jen Gottlieb (Hay House Business) builds to No. 13 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

The Negativity Fast: Proven Techniques To Increase Positivity, Reduce Fear, and Boost Success by Anthony Iannarino (Wiley) is boosted to No. 14 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Reviews

NYT reviews What’s Cooking in the Kremlin: From Rasputin to Putin, How Russia Built an Empire with a Knife and Fork by Witold Szablowski, tr. by Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Penguin Bks.): “Szablowski eventually intervenes with his own skeptical interpretation of events, but much of the book, translated into chatty English by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, is given over to oral history for a reason.” 

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

Briefly Noted

NYT profiles Edel Rodriguez, creator of the graphic novel Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey (Metropolitan).

The Guardian has a long read about Andrew Wylie, literary agent to “an extraordinary number of the planet’s biggest authors.”

NYT’s “Inside the Best-Seller List” focuses on graphic novel The Mysteries by Bill Watterson and John Kascht (Andrews McMeel).

Washington Post talks to Sandra Newman, author of Julia (Mariner; LJ starred review).

NYT reveals “What We Learned From Barbra Streisand’s Memoir,” My Name Is Barbra (Viking).

Hollywood Reporter publishes an excerpt from Pandora’s Box: How Guts, Guile, and Greed Upended TV by Peter Biskind (Morrow; LJ starred review).

Tor.com publishes an essay about trans identity in Ann Leckie’s The Raven Tower (Orbit).

Douglas Melville, Invisible Generals: Rediscovering Family Legacy, and a Quest To Honor America’s First Black Generals (Atria/Black Privilege Publishing), answers LitHub’s “Annotated Nightstand” questionnaire.

Tor.com lists “Five SFF Novels About Autocrats and the Problems of Wielding Absolute Power.”

CrimeReads identifies “six great mystery novels set in hotels” and wilderness thrillers featuring fearless women.

T: The New York Times Style Magazine has a feature about travel to Bolivia, Mongolia, and Iraq that lists the dozens of books that Aatish Taseer read to prepare for his journey.

Kirkus highlights “5 Big Nonfiction Books From Small Presses.”

The Atlantic recommends “Eight Books That Explain How the World Works.”

Town & Country names “The Best New Celebrity Memoirs of 2023.”

Authors on Air

Barbra Streisand is interviewed on NPR’s Fresh Air on the occasion of the publication of her memoir, My Name Is Barbra (Viking).

Today, Isabel Kershner, author of The Land of Hope and Fear: Israel’s Battle for Its Inner Soul (Knopf), appears on NPR’s Fresh Air.

Tomorrow, Good Morning America will host Lauren Simmons, author of Make Money Move: A Guide to Financial Wellness (Amistad).

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

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