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Awards & Book News

Rachel Cusk’s Parade (Farrar; LJ starred review) wins the Goldsmiths Prize, The Guardian reports.

Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo by Craig L. Symonds (Oxford Univ.) wins the Gilder Lehrman Military History Prize.

Mara Faye Lethem’s translation of Irene Solà’s Catalan novel When I Sing, Mountains Dance (Graywolf) wins the Lewis Galantière Award, Shelf Awareness reports.

The Booker Prize shortlist is announced.

Vulture adds to their list of the best books of 2024 so far.

EveryLibrary warns that U.S. election results will mean more uncertainty for libraries, Publishers Weekly reports.

New Title Bestsellers

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

Fiction

The Grey Wolf by Louise Penny (Minotaur; LJ starred review) hunts down No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list and No. 2 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Throne of Secrets by Kerri Maniscalco (Little, Brown) reigns over No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

The Blue Hour by Paula Hawkins (Mariner) reaches No. 8 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

Blood Over Bright Haven by M.L. Wang (Del Rey: Ballantine; LJ starred review) finds No. 9 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

Nonfiction

Justine Cooks: Recipes (Mostly Plants) for Finding Your Way in the Kitchen by Justine Doiron (Clarkson Potter) serves up No. 12 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Reviews

The Guardian reviews She’s Always Hungry: Stories by Eliza Clark (Harper Perennial): “Disgust and delight, it has been said, live in close proximity; in Eliza Clark’s debut collection, they share a home and a bed…. This is a book that seems crafted from the stuff of our deepest fears and our most illicit desires. You read on, by turns engrossed and grossed out, as though in the thrall of some demonic power”; and The Position of Spoons: And Other Intimacies by Deborah Levy (Farrar): “The author-as-actor idea is intriguing, although it runs the risk of making these great writers seem a little hollow, as though their creativity is also charade. Levy herself seems to sense this, and grapple with it.”

The Millions reviews two newly translated works by Andrés Neuman, Sensitive Anatomy and Once Upon Argentina (Open Letter), tr. by Nick Caistor & Lorenza Garcia: “Both books grope in the darkness, considering topics so proximate as to be strange, writing in different directions toward common themes.”

LitHub gathers “5 Book Reviews You Need To Read This Week.”

Briefly Noted

In The Guardian, Rebecca Solnit remembers her friend the late David Graeber, whose new collection of writings is The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World…: Essays (Farrar).

NYT reports on the rise of healing fiction, especially as a means to deal with stressful times. See LJ’s Display Shelf for more healing fiction titles.

Maris Kreizman shares positive book news in LitHub.

Jean Hanff Korelitz, author of The Sequel (Celadon), answers NYT’s “By the Book” questionnaire.

CrimeReads interviews M.L. Rio, author of Graveyard Shift (Flatiron).

Elphie: A Wicked Childhood, a Wicked prequel novel from Gregory Maguire, is due out from Morrow in March 2025, Kirkus reports.

Louis Sachar’s first adult novel, The Magician of Tiger Castle, will be published by Ace in August 2025, People reports.

CrimeReads explains the meanings of the character names used by Agatha Christie.

Authors on Air

Today, NPR’s Fresh Air will talk to Justene Hill Edwards, author of Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman’s Bank (Norton).

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

NPR’s Fresh Air reviews Pedro Páramo, a film based on the 1955 novel by Juan Rulfo.

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