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Awards & Book News

The Dublin Literary Award shortlist is announced.

An Iowa law that would ban books including 1984 and Ulysses has been blocked by a federal judge, The Guardian reports.

Vulture interviews the new Simon & Schuster publisher, Sean Manning, about making the imprint the A24 of books.

Taylor & Francis announces it will use AI to translate books from some languages into English; Publishers Weekly has the news.

Penguin Random House and the National Coalition Against Censorship have announced separate fundraising initiatives to counter censorship, Publishers Weekly reports.

New Title Bestsellers

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

Fiction

The Writer by James Patterson & J.D. Barker (Little, Brown) is published at No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones (S. & S.; LJ starred review) tracks down No. 4 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

The Strawberry Patch Pancake House by Laurie Gilmore (One More Chapter) serves up No. 6 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

The Story She Left Behind by Patti Callahan Henry (Atria) takes No. 12 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

Nonfiction

Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green (Crash Course) gets No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list and No. 2 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Abundance: What Progress Takes by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson (Avid Reader/S. & S.) arrives at No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list and No. 8 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Resolute: How We Humans Keep Finding Ways To Beat the Toughest Odds by Benjamin Hall (Harper Influence) makes its way to No. 4 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service, ed. by Michael Lewis (Riverhead) reaches No. 6 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Heartbreaker: A Memoir by Mike Campbell with Ari Surdoval (Grand Central) breaks in at No. 8 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Antisemitism in America: A Warning by Chuck Schumer (Grand Central) has No. 9 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Becoming The Pastor’s Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman’s Path to Ministry by Beth Allison Barr (Brazos) becomes No. 14 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list, though some retailers report receiving bulk orders.

Make Money Easy: Create Financial Freedom and Live a Richer Life by Lewis Howes (Hay House Business) attains No. 15 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Reviews

LA Times reviews Bad Nature by Ariel Courage (Holt): “Ariel Courage’s debut is a fork jabbed into the electric socket of America. You can’t look away and, thanks to its bitter wit, can’t stop laughing.”

The Guardian reviews What Is Free Speech?: The History of a Dangerous Idea by Fara Dabhoiwala (Belknap): “Dabhoiwala, it shouldn’t be necessary to say but perhaps is, is not against freedom of speech. He is only asking us to question whether we should laud it as an end in itself, even as the highest ideal of all. He wants us to think of free speech as being not just about the content of words but about which voices are heard most loudly and which are marginalised.”

NYT reviews “4 Shattering Romance Novels With Glorious Payoffs”: Fan Service by Rosie Danan (Berkley; LJ starred review), A Gentleman’s Gentleman by TJ Alexander (Vintage), The Love Simulation by Etta Easton (Berkley), and Wooing the Witch Queen by Stephanie Burgis (Bramble).

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

Briefly Noted

Vulture has a Q&A with Bob the Drag Queen, author of the novel Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert (Gallery).

Vulture talks to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers member Mike Campbell, author with Ari Surdoval of Heartbreaker: A Memoir (Grand Central).

USA Today interviews members of the Bangles and shares details from Eternal Flame: The Authorized Biography of the Bangles by Jennifer Otter Bickerdike (Da Capo).

Publishers Weekly speaks with Matt Kindt & Margie Kraft Kindt, creators of the graphic novel Gilt Frame (Dark Horse).

CrimeReads interviews Chris Offutt, author of The Reluctant Sheriff (Grove).

People has an essay from doula Carson Meyer, author of Growing Together: Doula Wisdom & Holistic Practices for Pregnancy, Birth & Early Motherhood (Chronicle Prism).

Kirkus highlights 20 books to read in April and “5 Nonfiction Books To Make Your Reading Global.”

Publishers Weekly shares panels from the graphic novel Aya: Face the Music by Marguerite Abouet & Clément Oubrerie, tr. by Edwige Dro (Drawn & Quarterly).

Maggie Smith, author of Dear Writer: Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Life (Washington Square), answers NYT’s “By the Book” questionnaire.

The bankrupt Diamond Comic Distributors will be acquired by Alliance Entertainment, Publishers Weekly reports.

YA author L.J. Smith, best known for “The Vampire Diaries” series and reclaiming her work via fan fiction after being replaced by a ghost writer, has died at age 66; NYT has an obituary.

Crime writer Dennis McDougal has died at age 77; NYT and LA Times have obituaries.

Authors on Air

AudioFile’s Behind the Mic podcast interviews Ann Powers and Alison Fensterstock about the audiobook How Women Made Music: A Revolutionary History (HarperAudio; LJ starred review).

Black Mountain Institute and LitHub’s Thresholds podcast talks to Sabrina Imbler, author of How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures (Little, Brown).

NPR’s It’s Been a Minute speaks with Jamie Hood, author of Trauma Plot: A Life (Pantheon).

NPR’s Fresh Air interviews Amanda Knox, author of Free: My Search for Meaning (Grand Central).

Kirkus’s Fully Booked podcast talks to Bob the Drag Queen, author of Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert (Gallery).

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