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Awards & News

Richard Flanagan wins the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction for his memoir Question 7 (Knopf) but refuses the £50,000 cash award over the sponsor’s ties to fossil fuel, The Guardian reports. LitHub also has coverage. 

Colm Tóibín’s Long Island (Scribner) is named Waterstones Irish Book of the Year, The Bookseller reports.

The winners of the Writers’ Trust of Canada Awards are announced. CBC has details.

The Christy Award winners are announced. 

Ebony shares “10 Powerful Books from Ebony’s Power 100 Awardees and Honorees.”

The 75th Annual National Book Awards ceremony is tonight at 8 p.m. EST and will be hosted by Kate McKinnon and musical guest Jon Batiste. Watch the ceremony here. 

Microsoft launches a new imprint, 8080 Books, focusing on thought-leadership titles.

Agents and authors react to Harper Collins’s AI deal; Publishers Weekly has the story. 

Reviews

Washington Post reviews Time of the Child by Niall Williams (Bloomsbury; LJ starred review): “Williams packs his paragraphs with lush imagery and piercing psychological insight. Line by line, it may be the most beautifully written novel I’ve read this year. Let’s raise a glass of mulled wine to an Emerald Isle master at the peak of his powers.” Star Tribune also reviews: “To use a word that appears often in the novel, Time of the Child is a miracle.”

Datebook reviews Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures by Katherine Rundell (Doubleday): “In witty, enlightening and never-dry prose, she reminds us of all the myriad ways in which the survival rate of these creatures is threatened—and some of the things we humans can do to counteract or prevent things like trophy hunting and deforestation.”

Briefly Noted

LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for Now or Never by Janet Evanovich (Atria), the top holds title of the week. 

LJ has new prepub alerts.

BookRiot announces the best books of the year. 

LJ continues the Best Books Countdown 2024. Titles will be announced December 2. 

Entertainment Weekly highlights fall’s best romances.

Seattle Times suggests four books for winter.

BookRiot shares cozy books to snuggle up with. 

ElectricLit shares  “11 Books by Bangladeshi Voices Beyond Its Borders.”

HipLatina highlights “15 Award-Winning Spanish-Language Books Translated into English.”

USA Today shares highlights from the new book Songbird: An Intimate Biography of Christine McVie by Lesley-Ann Jones (Hachette). 

Jessie van Eerden, Yoke and Feather (Dzanc), answers 10 questions at Poets & Writers. 

Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History (Norton), tells People whom she would cast in adaptations of her novels. 

Reactor shares an excerpt from Gabrielle Korn’s forthcoming queer dystopian novel The Shutouts (St. Martin’s), due out December 3. 

Authors on Air

Amazon Books editor Sarah Gelman offers holiday cookbook recomendations on CBS Mornings.

PBS Newshour talks with Peggy Noonan about her new book, A Certain Idea of America: Selected Writings (Portfolio), and the “essence of our nation's character.”

Bill Clinton discusses his new memoir, Citizen: My Life After the White House (Knopf), with NPR’s Morning Edition. 

FoxNews talks with Steve Parke, editor of Prince: Icon; The Definitive Photographic Collection (Acc Art Bks.).

Jaleel White, Growing Up Urkel (S. & S.; LJ starred review), will visit GMA tomorrow.

Christian Siriano, The New Red Carpet (Rizzoli), will appear on The View. 

Mark Harmon and Leon Carroll, Ghosts of Panama: A Strongman Out of Control, A Murdered Marine, and the Special Agents Caught in the Middle of an Invasion (Harper Select), will discuss their book on The Talk.

Jessica Seinfeld, Not Too Sweet: 100 Dessert Recipes for Those Who Want More with Just a Little Less (Gallery Books; LJ starred review), will visit with Drew Barrymore.

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