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Awards & Book News

Martin MacInnes wins the Arthur C. Clarke Award for In Ascension (Black Cat: Grove). The Guardian has the news.

Finalists have been named for the New England Book Awards, honoring books about New England or by a New England author.

The Jewish Literary Foundation reveals the Genesis Emerging Writers cohort for 2024. The Bookseller has the news.

More audiobooks from indie publishers will be offered on Spotify, The Bookseller reports.

The latest GalleyChat roundup is out from EarlyWord.

New Title Bestsellers

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

Fiction

The Black Bird Oracle by Deborah Harkness (Ballantine; LJ starred review) sees No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list and No. 3 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Nonfiction

JFK Jr.: An Intimate Oral Biography by RoseMarie Terenzio & Liz McNeil (Gallery) reaches No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Tiger, Tiger: His Life, as It’s Never Been Told Before by James Patterson (Little, Brown) swings for No. 10 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Reviews

NYT reviews Feh: A Memoir by Shalom Auslander (Riverhead): “Feh is a 356-page explication of a particular pessimistic worldview with which Auslander has been cursed since first grade in an Orthodox yeshiva in Monsey, N.Y., though because of his prose style—lots of one-liners and crisp dialogue set off in dashes—it seems far shorter.” Washington Post also reviews: “A cynic in the world never runs out of material, and Auslander doesn’t always hone or organize it well. But the persistent blackness of the book’s black comedy makes the tiny shafts of light in the latter chapters shine that much brighter.”

Washington Post reviews The Modern Fairies by Clare Pollard (Avid Reader/S. & S.): “Ultimately, the finest moments in The Modern Fairies are not the most rococo or outrageous (the sex is graphic and abundant, but rarely pleasurable for the women involved) but rather the most intimate”; and All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way by Fred Trump (Gallery): “At times, All in the Family—which bogs down when the author’s life and real estate career are the subjects, but is pretty juicily entertaining when he writes about his aunts and uncles—reads like a cathartic exercise.”

NPR’s Fresh Air reviews Someone Like Us by Dinaw Mengestu (Knopf): “A most idiosyncratic American immigrant novel…. All the resonant tropes are here—the crowded apartments and the random acts of nativist violence—but, by altering the reader’s vantage points, Mengestu ultimately turns the story back onto us and the control we think we have over the story of our own lives.”

LitHub recommends “Five Book Reviews You Need To Read This Week.”

Briefly Noted

Stephen Graham Jones, author of I Was a Teenage Slasher (S. & S./Saga; LJ starred review), answers NYT’s “By the Book” questionnaire.

LitHub has an interview with poet Dara Barrois/Dixon, author of Extremely Expensive Mystical Experiences for Astronauts (Conduit.)

The Guardian selects five of the best books about conspiracy theories.

LitHub has a reading list of “Vendettas, Gatekeepers, and Prima Donnas: (Very) Bad Mentors in Fiction” and of travel novels.

CrimeReads explores “the literature of obsession, addiction, and disease.”

The first part of Cher’s two-part memoir will be released by Dey Street on November 19, LA Times reports.

Melania Trump will publish a memoir, due out from Skyhorse this fall, AP reports.

Publishers Weekly reports that the National Book Foundation program has distributed more than 2 million free books to young people and families in public housing since 2017.

Washington Post explores “how memorizing poetry can expand your life.”

Rosa Ross, “Late-Blooming Author of Asian Cookbooks,” has died at 86, NYT writes.

Authors on Air

The Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast discusses Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek with poet Jen Hadfield.

Tomorrow, author and bookseller Emma Straub and author Jasmine Guillory will discuss summer beach reads on Today.

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

Sony Pictures Television has acquired two novels by Liz Moore, The God of the Woods (Riverhead; LJ starred review) and The Unseen World (Norton), for series development, Deadline reports.

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