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Awards & Book News

The shortlist for the Nota Bene Prize, for novels “that have received organic, word-of-mouth recognition and are deserving of a wider readership,” is revealed; The Bookseller has coverage.

The shortlist for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year is announced.

Annabel Sowemimo wins the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing for Divided: Racism, Medicine and Why We Need To Decolonise Healthcare (Wellcome Collection).

Salman Rushdie’s body of work wins the Halldór Laxness International Literary Prize, Publishing Perspectives reports.

Winners of the V&A Illustration Awards are announced, including adult fiction and nonfiction books.

Several academic publishers are being sued over peer review processes that do not compensate contributing scholars. Publishers Weekly has the news.

New Title Bestsellers

Links for the week: NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers | NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers | USA Today Bestselling Books

Fiction

Somewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune (Tor; LJ starred review) stretches to No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list and on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty (Crown) reaches No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list and No. 6 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout (Random) garners No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list and on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Nonfiction

Confronting the Presidents: No-Spin Assessments from Washington to Biden by Bill O’Reilly & Martin Dugard (St. Martin’s) reaches No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list and No. 2 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari (Random) ascends to No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list and No. 8 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

The Highest Calling: Conversations on the American Presidency by David M. Rubenstein (S. & S.) is called to No. 4 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list and No. 8 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list, though some retailers report receiving bulk orders.

Who Could Ever Love You: A Family Memoir by Mary L. Trump (St. Martin’s) holds No. 5 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Reagan: His Life and Legend by Max Boot (Liveright) commands No. 10 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

I Used To Like You Until...: (How Binary Thinking Divides Us) by Kat Timpf (Threshold Editions) hits No. 10 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list and No. 11 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Risks and Returns: Creating Success in Business and Life by Wilbur Ross (Skyhorse) achieves No. 12 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

The Journey of Leadership: How CEOs Learn To Lead from the Inside Out by Ramesh Srinivasan & others (Portfolio) climbs to No. 13 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Armed with Good Intentions by Wallace “Wallo267” Peeples with Raquel De Jesus (Gallery/13A) gets No. 13 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list, though some retailers report receiving bulk orders.

Reviews

Washington Post reviews The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi by Wright Thompson (Penguin Pr.): “The Barn is serious history and skillful journalism, but with the nuance and wallop of a finely wrought novel. In Thompson’s telling, layers of the Delta’s history fold upon themselves, mixing the sublime and gruesome”; Counting Miracles by Nicholas Sparks (Random): “Three decades [after The Notebook], in a world hotter, crazier and more confounding than ever, Sparks’s 24th novel offers all the calming comforts of a weighted blanket and a warm cup of caramel almond blossom tea”; A Season for That: Lost and Found in the Other Southern France by Steve Hoffman (Crown): “Hoffman spent about eight years writing A Season for That, and it shows in his sentences, which are so polished that you will often marvel at their brilliance”; and Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father’s Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success by Susanne Craig & Russ Buettner (Penguin Pr.): “The authors prove that without his father’s support, Trump would have been nothing. The book also raises a bigger question about the ‘fake it till you make it’ ethos of modern America.”

NPR reviews Brothers and Ghosts by Khuê Phạm, tr. by Daryl Lindsay & Chris Hawley (Scribe): “Published in Germany in 2021 and hailed as the first novel about the Vietnamese diaspora,… Phạm’s debut novel reverberates in clear, dispassionate prose that belies its complex subject matter.”

LA Times reviews Tiny Threads by Lilliam Rivera (Del Rey): “Tiny Threads lives up to its genre. It is a horror novel, its supernatural and real elements interwoven so seamlessly that the reader begins to question reality.”

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

Briefly Noted

LitHub interviews poet Emilie Menzel about her debut collection, The Girl Who Became a Rabbit (Hub City).

Gillian Anderson, editor of Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous (Abrams), answers NYT’s “By the Book” questionnaire.

Saoirse Ronan will narrate a new audiobook edition of Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn, due out from S. & S. Audio on Oct. 22, People reports.

In LitHub, Jessica Pishko, author of The Highest Law in the Land: How the Unchecked Power of Sheriffs Threatens Democracy (Dutton), recommends 11 essential works on extremism.

In Reactor, Charlie Jane Anders shares “10 Literary Books That Made Me a Better Science Fiction Writer.”

A posthumous autobiography by conservationist and nature writer Gerald Durrell will be published by Viking; Myself and Other Animals is due out in the UK in December, The Guardian reports. (A U.S. publication date has yet to be announced.)

Elias Khoury, “master of the modern Arabic novel,” has died at 76; NYT has an obituary.

Suspense and adventure novelist Nelson DeMille has died at 81; Kirkus has an obituary.

Frederick Schauer, a law professor who wrote about free speech, has died at 78; NYT has an obituary.

Mattel has created a Barbie doll based on Isabel Allende, holding a miniature version of her novel La casa de los espíritus [The House of the Spirits], Locus reports.

Authors on Air

NPR’s Fresh Air interviews Connie Chung about her memoir, Connie (Grand Central).

PBS Canvas talks to war correspondent and poet Lindsey Hilsum about her new book, I Brought the War with Me: Stories and Poems from the Front Line (Chatto & Windus).

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

Tomorrow, Good Morning America will host Joyce Meyer, author of What About Me?: Get Out of Your Own Way and Discover the Power of an Unselfish Life (FaithWords).

Alex García López, the director of the Netflix adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, tells EW about the challenges of turning the novel into a TV series.

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