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Award News & Challenged Books

CJ Sansom wins the 2022 Diamond Dagger Award from the British Crime Writer's Association (CWA) for his debut book, Dissolution (Penguin).

The National Book Foundation selects titles for their Science + Literature Program. 

The 2022 Premio Ernesto Vegetti shortlists are announced.

Lit Hub reports on The Authors Guild’s guide for stopping books from being banned.

NYT shares an opinion piece about book banning.

New Title Bestsellers

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

Fiction

Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson (Ballantine; LJ starred review) celebrates No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont (St. Martin’s) begins at No. 5 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Chainsaw Man, Vol. 9 by Tatsuki Fujimoto (VIZ Media) cuts to No. 5 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Court by Tracy Wolff (Macmillan) holds No. 6 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk (Riverhead) debuts at No. 10 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Jujutsu Kaisen, Vol. 14 by Gege Akutami (VIZ Media) starts at No. 10 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

The Baby-Sitters Club #11: Good-bye Stacey, Good-bye by Ann M. Martin (Scholastic) greets No. 12 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Recitatif: A Story by Toni Morrison (Knopf) starts at No. 13 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Nonfiction

The Power of Regret by Daniel H. Pink (Riverhead) begins at No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Dilla Time by Dan Charnas (MCD) clocks No. 4 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Reviews

NYT reviews Index, A History of the by Dennis Duncan (Norton): “This book is, on one level, a history of information science, but it’s also a history of reading and writing and everything those actions entail — communication, learning and imagination, as well as competition, anxiety and no small amount of mischief.” Also, Anonymous Sex edited by Hillary Jordan and Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan (Scribner): “As with a casual tryst, the best part of this book is the anonymity; the promise of no strings attached. No names or expectations, just give and take what you want. While no single experience or story guarantees the pleasure you seek, the thrill is in taking a chance on the unknown.” Also, A Molecule Away From Madness by Sara Manning Peskin (Norton; LJ starred review): "A thiamine deficiency, for example, can lead to the development of Korsakoff’s syndrome, one symptom of which is confabulation: Sufferers make up fantastical stories, believing them to be true. Peskin writes about these conditions and the patients consumed by them with a grace and humanity that recall Oliver Sacks. Her slim volume also manages to tell the stories of the doctors and researchers who chased down these treacherous molecules in the field and in the lab; she has a flair for the quick character sketch and an eye for vivid detail."

The Washington Post reviews The Goodbye Coast by Joe Ide (Mulholland): “Unfortunately, apart from its moody, Chandler-esque title and a main character called Philip Marlowe, “The Goodbye Coast” has as much connection to Chandler’s novels as Rome, N.Y., has to Rome.”

Book Marks shares "5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week."

Briefly Noted

Mira Jacob discusses “how key conversations sparked the idea for her graphic memoir” Good Talk (One World) in an interview with The Millions. 

Silvia Vasquez-Lavado, author of In the Shadow of the Mountain: A Memoir of Courage by (Henry Holt & Co.), chats with People about how writing her memoir saved her life.

Jane Goodall talks about her book The Book of Hope (Celadon) and how she is “still surprised at her ever-growing fame” with The Los Angeles Times. 

Benjamin Percy, author of The Unfamiliar Garden (Mariner), shares short reviews on books about plants that attack for Lit Hub. 

Dantiel W. Moniz, Milk Blood Heat (Grove; LJ starred review), fills out the Book Marks Questionnaire. 

Olga Tokarczuk, author of The Books of Jacob (Riverhead), answers NYT's By the Book questions about her reading habits.

NYT shares two short reviews for crime and mystery books including: The Matchmaker by Paul Vidich (Pegasus: S. & S.) and Marion Lane and the Deadly Rose by T.A. Willberg (Park Row: HarperCollins). Also, Inside the Best-Seller List features The Power of Regret by Daniel H. Pink (Riverhead).

Jenifer Lewis plans a book of essays, Walking in My Joy (Amistad), to be released this fall and People has a first look.

Vulture shares an excerpt from Kyle Buchanan’s Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road (Morrow).

Lit Hub has a cover reveal for We Spread by Iain Reid (S. & S.). 

CrimeReads lists “6 Novels With Twist Endings That Will Leave Your Jaw on the Floor.”

Authors on Air

Kiese Laymon, author of Long Division (Scribner), talks about “revision as love, and love as revision” with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds podcast.

Terry Gross interviews Isaac Butler, author of The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned To Act (Bloomsbury; LJ starred review), about “how the Method transformed film - and made acting more human” for NPR’s Fresh Air.

Susan Choi, Trust Exercise (Holt), talks about "the story behind literary awards" with Oscar Villalon on the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast.

Juliet McDaniel's Mr. & Mrs. American Pie (Inkshares) will be adpated for Apple TV and star Kristen Wiig and Laura Dern, according to the publisher's press release.

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