Reese’s Book Club selects Claire Lombardo’s The Most Fun We Ever Had as its next read. Hotline by Dimitri Nasrallah is the 2024 pick for the One eRead Canada book club. This year’s Independent Bookstore Day will be held on April 27. Fantasy novelist Sharon Green has died at age 79.
Reese’s Book Club selects Claire Lombardo’s The Most Fun We Ever Had (Doubleday) as its next read, Kirkus reports.
Hotline by Dimitri Nasrallah (Other Pr.) is the 2024 pick for the One eRead Canada book club, a national book club run through Canadian libraries. CBC has the news.
Shelf Awareness shares some of the plans for this year’s Independent Bookstore Day, to be held on April 27.
Fantasy novelist Sharon Green has died at age 79; Locus has an obituary.
Links for the week: NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers | NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers | USA Today Bestselling Books
Fiction
The Truth About the Devlins by Lisa Scottoline (Putnam) comes out at No. 6 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list and on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.
Nonfiction
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt (Penguin Pr.) takes No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list and No. 5 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.
Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present by Fareed Zakaria (Norton) progresses to No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.
Becky Lynch: The Man by Rebecca Quin (Gallery) reaches No. 4 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list, though some retailers report receiving bulk orders.
Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism by Stephen Breyer (S. & S.) attains No. 5 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.
There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib (Random) ascends to No. 7 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.
Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen (Dutton) finds No. 10 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.
Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball by Keith O’Brien (Pantheon) soars to No. 15 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.
NPR reviews There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib (Random): “There's no doubt that basketball fans will find much to love in There's Always This Year, but as great as Abdurraqib is at examining the sport, he's even better when he explores tangents.”
The Rumpus reviews Synthetic Jungle: Poems by Michael Chang (Curbstone Books 2: Northwestern Univ.): “In some respects, overexplaining Chang’s work takes away from its effect…. The poet composes texts predominantly by combining individual (at times quite long) lines that draw from various speech-genres, such as texts to your last hookup…, ideas for tweets…, and general absurdity…, all the while straddling the binaries of high and low, sincere and irreverent.”
LitHub highlights “5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week.”
Vanity Fair talks to Sheila Sundar, author of Habitations (S. & S.).
Kellye Garrett, author of Missing White Woman (Mulholland), discusses the legacy of Valerie Wilson Wesley with CrimeReads.
CrimeReads hosts a conversation between John Shen Yen Nee and SJ Rozan, authors of The Murder of Mr. Ma (Soho Crime; LJ starred review).
Ada Limón, editor of You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World (Milkweed Editions), answers NYT’s “By the Book” questionnaire.
Julia Alvarez, The Cemetery of Untold Stories (Algonquin), takes LitHub’s “Annotated Nightstand” survey.
LitHub speaks with Anna Shechtman, author of The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle (HarperOne; LJ starred review).
In CrimeReads, Desiree S. Evans, coeditor of The Black Girl Survives in This One: Horror Stories (Flatiron) talks about the past, present, and future of Black horror stories.
LA Times recommends three mystery novels to read this spring.
CBC highlights 37 Canadian poetry collections to watch for in spring 2024.
Leïla Slimani writes a remembrance of the late novelist Maryse Condé in The Guardian.
LitHub recommends “10 Queer Books For People With Mommy Issues.”
Ryan O’Connell, Emmy-nominated and Writers Guild Award–winning writer, actor, and producer, will publish a debut collection of essays with St. Martin’s in early 2026, Hollywood Reporter announces.
NPR’s Fresh Air interviews Hampton Sides, author of The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook (Doubleday).
David Baron, author of American Eclipse: A Nation’s Epic Race To Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World (Liveright: Norton), talks to LitHub’s Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast.
Tomorrow, Tamron Hall will interview Ronda Rousey, author of Our Fight: A Memoir (Grand Central).
Shelf Awareness rounds up the schedule for this weekend’s Book TV on C-SPAN 2.
Ethan Hawke will executive-produce a series based on Angie Kim’s bestseller Happiness Falls (Hogarth), Deadline reports.
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