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Awards & Book News

The finalists for the inaugural Libby Book Awards (sponsored by the library app) are announced; the winners will be voted on by library workers. People has coverage.

The longlist for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction is announced. The Bookseller has the news.

U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón is among Time’s 2024 Women of the Year.

CBC reports that calls to ban books are on the rise in Canada.

New Title Best Sellers

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

Fiction

Crosshairs by James Patterson & James O. Born (Little, Brown) takes aim at No. 7 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best-Seller list and No. 13 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher (Tor Nightfire) makes a meal of No. 10 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best-Seller list.

Nonfiction

The Holy Grail of Investing: The World’s Greatest Investors Reveal Their Ultimate Strategies for Financial Freedom by Tony Robbins with Christopher Zook (S. & S.) earns No. 3 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

What Have We Here?: Portraits of a Life by Billy Dee Williams (Knopf) wins No. 5 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best-Seller list.

Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House by Jared Cohen (S. & S.) takes No. 9 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best-Seller list, though some retailers report receiving bulk orders.

The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America by Jeffrey Rosen (S. & S.) pursues No. 12 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best-Seller list, though some retailers report receiving bulk orders.

The Lede: Dispatches from a Life in the Press by Calvin Trillin (Random) dispatches No. 14 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best-Seller list.

Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood by Ed Zwick (Gallery) is a hit at No. 15 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best-Seller list.

Reviews

Washington Post reviews Wandering Stars (Knopf) by Tommy Orange: “It’s not too early to say that Orange is building a body of literature that reshapes the Native American story in the United States. Book by book, he’s correcting the dearth of Indian stories even while depicting the tragic cost of that silence”; and Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment by Allen C. Guelzo (Knopf): “Race, slavery and emancipation are central to Guelzo’s story, and he writes movingly of Lincoln’s regard for the loyalty and sacrifice of Black soldiers during the war. Given that centrality, though, Guelzo misses the chance to consider the presence of African Americans in Lincoln’s world.”

USA Today reviews Good Material by Dolly Alderton (Knopf): “Perfect endings are nearly impossible to find—especially in the break-up genre—but this comes pretty dang close.”

NYT reviews Piglet by Lottie Hazell (Holt): “Hazell’s prose is as tart and icy as lemon sorbet; her sentences are whipcord taut, drum tight. The only time she indulges in description is when Piglet’s cooking or eating. Then, the writing becomes lush and lavish”; and new horror novels by Premee Mohamed, C.J. Cooke, Tim Lebbon, and Amanda Jayatissa.

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

Briefly Noted

Tor Books is criticized for use of AI-generated art in the Gothikana cover design, Publishers Weekly reports.

Brontez Purnell, Ten Bridges I’ve Burnt: A Memoir in Verse (MCD), answers NYT’s “By the Book” questionnaire.

NYT goes “Inside the Best-Seller List” with Joy-Ann Reid’s Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America (Mariner).

Washington Post suggests “5 utterly addictive new science fiction and fantasy novels.”

The Atlantic recommends “Seven Great Graphic Novels That Go Beyond Words.”

The Guardian identifies five of the best books about grief.

CrimeReads highlights “10 new gothic reads that explore the darkness within,” “four books juxtaposing the beauty and ugliness of ballet,” and “mysteries with quirky characters and curious careers.”

Steve Miller, best known for the “Liaden Universe” SF series cowritten with wife Sharon Lee, has died at age 73. Locus has an obituary.

Steven M. Wise, animal-rights activist and author of Rattling the Cage: Toward Legal Rights for Animals, has died at age 73. NYT has an obituary.

Authors on Air

Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition (Penguin Pr.), appears on NPR’s Fresh Air.

Margot Livesey, The Road from Belhaven (Knopf), talks to LitHub’s Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast.

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

A documentary based on Shad Helmstetter’s self-help best seller What To Say When You Talk to Your Self (Gallery) is in development, Deadline reports.

Marguerite Yourcenar’s Memoirs of Hadrian (Farrar) is being adapted as a TV series; Deadline has the news.

A screen adaptation is in the works for Django Wexler’s forthcoming novel How To Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying (Orbit; LJ starred review), Deadline reports. 

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