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Awards & Buzzy Book News

2022 National Book Awards for Translated Literature longlist is announced, and covered by The New Yorker. 

The 2022 Northern California Book winners are announced.

The 2022 Mo Siewcharran Prize shortlist is announced.

Lit Hub provides readings of the "winners of American Short Fiction's 2022 Insider Prize, selected by Lauren Hough."

Colleen Hoover, author of It Starts With Us (Atria), has topped 7 million units in print sales in 2022, according to Publishers Lunch. 

New Title Bestsellers

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

Fiction

Fairy Tale by Stephen King (Scribner) begins at No. 1 on both the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Desperation in Death by J. D. Robb (St. Martin’s) rises at No. 2 on both the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell (Knopf) bonds to No. 5 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Clive Cussler’s Hellburner by Mike Maden (Putnam) scorches No. 8 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 13 the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn (Berkley; LJ starred review) slices to No. 9 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

The Rising Tide by Ann Cleeves (Minotaur: St. Martin’s) floats to No. 15 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

The Pigeon Will Ride the Roller Coaster! by Mo Willems (Union Square) flies to No. 15 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Nonfiction

Solito by Javier Zamora (Hogarth) travels to No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century by J. Bradford DeLong (Basic; LJ starred review) debuts at No. 6 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

The Return of the Gods by Jonathan Cahn (Frontline) starts at No. 12 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

The American Roommate Experiment by Elena Armas (Atria) begins at No. 14 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

USA Today discusses the week's best sellers.

Reviews

The Washington Post reviews Bliss Montage by Ling Ma (Farrar): “a powerful reminder that there is more than one way to see — and really know — a person.” Also, The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and their Creators by Martin Edwards (Collins Crime Club; LJ starred review): “does more than just inform, entertain and provoke, it also sends new readers back to old books.” Plus, The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 by Peter Baker, and Susan Glasser (Doubleday): “shows off the best of big-resource journalism in the Trump era. Yet it also makes vivid some of the shortcomings of the industry that Trump repeatedly exploited.”

NYT reviews Lungfish by Meghan Gilliss (Catapult): "belongs to what could be called a new category of literature — survival parenting — reminiscent of Lydia Kiesling’s “The Golden State” and Stephanie Land’s “Maid.”" And, The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 by Peter Baker, and Susan Glasser (Doubleday): “Even while cataloging Trump’s most outrageous behaviors, Baker and Glasser strive to maintain a professional, dispassionate tone: analytical but not polemical. Inevitably, however, their low opinion of Trump shines through, occasionally garnished with a soupçon of snark." Also, Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self by Andrea Wulf (Knopf): “a vivid portrait of the 18th-century German Romantics: brilliant intellectuals and poets who could also be petty, thin-skinned and self-involved.” Plus, four short reviews of new international fiction in translation including Where Dogs Bark With Their Tails by Estelle-Sarah Bulle, trans. by Julia Grawemeyer (Picador); Dogs of Summer by Andrea Abreu, trans. by Julia Sanches (Astra); Pina by Titaua Peu, trans. by Jeffrey Zuckerman (Restless); Water Over Stones by Bernardo Atxaga, trans. by Margaret Jull Costa (Graywolf). Lastly, three short reviews on thrillers including Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn (Berkley; LJ starred review), Broken Summer by J.M. Lee (Amazon Crossing; LJ starred review), and Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney (Flatiron).

NPR reviews Bliss Montage by Ling Ma (Farrar): “Ling Ma writes with such authority that we readers are simply swept along, like that professor, through the portal. If sometimes we wonder where we've ended up, maybe that sense of dislocation is the desired final effect.” Also, Life's Work: A Memoir by David Milch (Random): “conversationally related yarns — as well as insider baseball on the making of television from casting to cutting room floor — are major draws of Life's Work, especially for dedicated Milch fans.”

Locus Magazine reviews Helpmeet by Naben Ruthnum (Undertow; LJ starred review): “simultaneously grotesque, weird, and beautiful. With a dark mystery at its core, precise prose, and a healthy dose of body horror, Helpmeet offers a lot, and it does so in less than 100 pages, which makes it even more impressive.”

Tor.com reviews The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean (Tor Books; LJ starred review): “a book about making your own story, building your own world and your own rules out of bits and pieces of what’s been fed to you—and what you find for yourself. It’s a book about a lot of things, really—a deep sense of place, a frustration with traditional notions of family, a commitment to love as a choice, an insistence that things can be better.” Also, The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy by Megan Bannen (Orbit): “ably situating conversations about our inevitable ends alongside these epistolary beginnings of friendship and love.”

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

Briefly Noted

The New York Times Magazine interviews Yiyun Li, author of Book of Goose (Farrar), about being "a beacon for readers in mourning."

Ravi Mangla chats with Gabriel Blackwell, Doom Town (Zerogram), about “influence, creative restlessness” and changing approaches to work for The Millions. 

Joe Pompeo, author of Blood & Ink: The Scandalous Jazz Age Double Murder That Hooked America on True Crime (Morrow), talks about “the murders that gave rise to the New York tabloids and modern true crime” with CrimeReads.

W. David Marx discusses his book Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change (Viking) with The Hollywood Reporter, explaining “how culture is created, catches fire, grows passé, then comes around again.”

NYT speaks to the husband and wife team behind the pen name Ilona Andrews, Ruby Fever: A Hidden Legacy Novel (Avon), about their life and work together.

Fox News interviews Celeste Headlee, author of Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving (Harmony), about avoiding burnout and achieving a “better work-life balance.”

Andrea Barrett, Natural History: Stories (Norton), answers NYT's By The Book questionnaire.

John Stamos will come out with a memoir titled If You Would Have Told Me about “fatherhood, Bob Saget, and more” to be released next fall. People has the story.

CrimeReads explores the writing of Kate Atkinson, author of Shrines of Gaiety (Doubleday). Also, highlights "dark academia fiction."

Tor.com provides “all the new science fiction books arriving in September” and “Five SF Works That Imagine Societies Without Poverty.”

NYT has a reading list regarding Helsinki.

Lit Hub has “Five Essential Food Memoirs" and 9 books on Black diasporic voices exploring "power, love, and safety."

Authors on Air

NPR’s All Things Considered interviews Lisa McNair about telling the stories of the subjects in her book, Dear Denise: Letters to the Sister I Never Knew (University of Alabama).

Nina Totenberg talks about her “decades-long friendship with Ruth Bader Ginsburg” on NPR’s Fresh Air detailed in her book, Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships (S. & S.).

The rights to adapt Geraldine Brooks’ book Horse (Viking; LJ starred review) have been purchased by Sony’s 300 Pictures, according to Deadline.

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