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Awards News

Robbie Morrison wins the 2021 Bloody Scotland Debut Crime Novel with Edge of the Grave (Macmillan).

The 2021 German Book Prize shortlist is announced.

The 2021 Mo Siewcharran Prize is announced.

New Title Bestsellers

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

Fiction

Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty (Henry Holt) debuts at No. 1 on both the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday; LJ starred review) opens at No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 4 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Enemy at the Gates by Vince Flynn and Kyle Mills (Atria: Emily Bestler) stands at No. 2 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list and No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff (St. Martin’s) lives at No. 8 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

True Dead by Faith Hunter (Ace: Berkley) lives at No. 11 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood (Berkley; LJ starred review) debuts at No. 14 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

This Wisdom of Crowds by Joe Abercrombie (Orbit: Hachette) starts at No 15 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Nonfiction

Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement by Tarana Burke (Flatiron; LJ starred review) launches to No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Joshua Weissman: An Unapologetic Cookbook by Joshua Weissman (Alpha: Random House) slices to No. 3 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life by Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein (Portfolio: Penguin) pursues No. 4 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list and No. 7 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Fuzz by Mary Roach (Norton; LJ starred review) heats to No. 5 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

You Got Anything Stronger? by Gabrielle Union (Dey Street Books) opens at No. 6 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised: A Memoir of Survival and Hope by Carmelo Anthony (Gallery: S. & S.) lives at No. 7 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Wildland: The Making of America's Fury by Evan Osnos (FSG) burns at No. 8 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Shielding Ember by Susan Stoker sparks at No. 9 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy by Nathaniel Philbrick (Viking) journeys to No. 12 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Reviews

NYT reviews The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century by Amia Srinivasan (Farrar): “These essays are works of both criticism and imagination. Srinivasan refuses to resort to straw men; she will lay out even the most specious argument clearly and carefully, demonstrating its emotional power, even if her ultimate intention is to dismantle it.”

The Washington Post reviews The Dark Remains by William McIlvanney and Ian Rankin (World Noir; LJ starred review): “As in the original Laidlaw trilogy, the writing here is so sharp nearly every sentence could split open a haggis.”

NPR reviews The Trees by Percival Everett (Greywolf: Macmillan): “It's a racial allegory grounded in history, shrouded in mystery, and dripping with blood. An incendiary device you don't want to put down.”

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

Briefly Noted

Entertainment Weekly interviews Sophie Santos, who released a new book The One You Want to Marry (And Other Identities I’ve Had) (Amazon) and reflects on “some of the most meaningful pop culture from her own consumption.” Also, a first look at Casey McQuiston’s latest I Kissed Shara Wheeler (Macmillan). 

NYT features Maria Tatar, author of The Heroine With 1,001 Faces (Liveright; LJ starred review) and how “she is taking aim at Joseph Campbell and showing us the women he left out of the story.”

Malka Older, author of the Hugo-nominated Centenal Cycle, will publish the novella The Mimicking of Known Successes with Tor books.

Lincoln Michel, The Body Scout (Orbit: Hachette), writes a piece for CrimeReads about “why noir and science fiction are still a perfect pairing.”

Tor.com has an excerpt of Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki (Tor: Macmillan). 

Vulture shares an excerpt of Please Don't Sit On My Bed In Your Outside Clothes by Phoebe Robinson (Tiny Reparations: Random House).

CrimeReads has an excerpt of American Time Bomb: Attica, Sam Melville, and a Son’s Search for Answers (Chicago Review Press). 

Lit Hub offers an excerpt of Runner's High: How a Movement of Cannabis-Fueled Athletes Is Changing the Science of Sports by Josiah Hesse (G. P. Putnam: Penguin) and an excerpt of Things I Have Withheld by Kei Miller (Grove; LJ starred review). Plus, an excerpt of Read Until You Understand by Farah Jasmine Griffin (Norton).

CrimeReads explores the work of Edwin Torres, author of Carlito's Way, on the year of his 90th birthday. Also, the site lists “Ten Criminal Characters Motivated by Good Intentions.”

NYT shares “Newly Published, From the Vanderbilt Family to the Former PepsiCo CEO” featuring Floating in the Deep End: How Caregivers Can See Beyond Alzheimer’s by Patti Davis (Liveright; LJ starred review), My Life in Full: Work, Family, and Our Future by Indra Nooyi (Portfolio: Penguin), and Things Are Against Us by Lucy Ellmann (Biblioasis). Also, a peak into the bestseller list for readers who are into sports spotlighting Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised: A Memoir of Survival and Hope by Carmelo Anthony (Gallery: S. & S.) and Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty (Henry Holt).

Authors on Air

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (Scribner: S. & S.) will be adapted into a series for Netflix. Variety reports. The Hollywood Reporter writes about the cast.

John Ajvide Lindqvist’s Let the Right One In (St. Martin’s) will be adapted as a television series for Showtime. Tor.com has more. Demían Bichir will star in this series, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Deadline shares news of Kimberly McCreight’s Friends Like These (HarperCollins) series developed by Amblin Television.

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