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Awards & Book News

Ben Fountain, author of Devil Makes Three (Flatiron), wins the Joyce Carol Oates Prize for mid-career fiction writers. Kirkus and Publishers Weekly have coverage.

The winners of the Minnesota Book Awards are announced; among them are Emma Törzs, Emily Strasser, Timothy Cochrane, Mona Susan Power, and Chaun Webster.

Shortlists for the Charles Tyrwhitt Sports Book Awards are released; The Bookseller has coverage.

The longlist for the Kraszna-Krausz Photography and Moving Image Book Awards is revealed; The Guardian has the news.

New Title Bestsellers

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

Fiction

King of Sloth by Ana Huang (Bloom) reigns at No. 1 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Home Is Where the Bodies Are by Jeneva Rose (Blackstone) kills No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Only the Brave by Danielle Steel (Delacorte) fights to No. 4 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Real Americans by Rachel Khong (Knopf) reaches No. 9 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Nonfiction

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson (Crown) possesses No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list and No. 3 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew by Emmanuel Acho & Noa Tish (S. & S./Simon Element) takes No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

For Love of Country: Leave the Democrat Party Behind by Tulsi Gabbard (Regnery) receives No. 4 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list, though some retailers report receiving bulk orders.

The New Menopause: Navigating Your Path Through Hormonal Change with Purpose, Power, and Facts by Mary Claire Haver (Rodale) takes No. 6 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Open Wide: A Cookbook for Friends by Benny Blanco & Jess Damuck (Dey Street) gobbles up No. 7 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

The Age of Grievance by Frank Bruni (Avid Reader/S. & S.) wins No. 7 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century by Garrett M. Graff & Dmitri Alperovitch (PublicAffairs) races to No. 8 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Power Moves: Ignite Your Confidence and Become a Force by Sarah Jakes Roberts (Thomas Nelson) burns up No. 12 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

ADHD Is Awesome: A Guide to (Mostly) Thriving with ADHD by Penn Holderness & Kim Holderness (Harper Horizon) thrives at No. 14 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Reviews

NYT reviews Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society by Daniel Chandler (Knopf): “Chandler deserves credit for refusing to relegate his book to the airy realm of wistful abstraction. The last two-thirds of Free and Equal are given over to specific policy proposals.”

Washington Post reviews Shanghailanders by Juli Min (Spiegel & Grau): “Min centers the cosmopolitan character of Shanghai as a magnet for ambitious outsiders, something she clearly understands as she now calls the city home.… It is the city’s siren call that Min emphasizes more than, say, granular descriptions of the neighborhoods or their longtime inhabitants”; The Way You Make Me Feel: Love in Black and Brown by Nina Sharma (Penguin Pr.): “The sweeping but focused collection demonstrates Sharma’s commitment to exploring Afro-Asian intimacy in all its beauty and complexity”; and two new books by Joseph Epstein, Never Say You’ve Had a Lucky Life: Especially if You’ve Had a Lucky Life (Free Pr.) and Familiarity Breeds Content: New and Selected Essays (S. & S.): “Overall, this look back over a long life is consistently entertaining, certainly more page-turner than page-stopper.”

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

Briefly Noted

CrimeReads interviews Abir Mukherjee, Hunted (Mulholland; LJ starred review).

NYT talks to Michael McDonald and Paul Reiser, authors of What a Fool Believes: A Memoir (Dey Street).

LitHub speaks with Lucas Mann, author of Attachments: Essays on Fatherhood and Other Performances (Univ. of Iowa).

Wendy Chen, Their Divine Fires (Algonquin), answers LitHub’s “Annotated Nightstand” questionnaire.

Hollywood Reporter interviews Casey Wilson and Jessica St. Clair about their audiobook original The Art of Small Talk (Pushkin Industries).

In LitHub, Nicolás Medina Mora, author of América del Norte (Soho), discusses Mexican novels set in cantinas.

In LA Times, Larry Tye, author of The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Count Basie Transformed America (Mariner; LJ starred review), writes that “for the greats of the jazz age, life on the road was perilous as well as glamorous.”

Kirkus recommends “3 New Fiction Audiobooks You Should Listen To Now.”

CrimeReads rounds up “eight of the greatest campus novels ever written.”

Authors on Air

NPR’s Code Switch talks to Daniel Olivas, author of Chicano Frankenstein (Forest Avenues).

LitHub’s Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast interviews Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History (Norton).

LitHub’s The History of Literature Podcast speaks with Sophie Ratcliffe, Loss, a Love Story: Imagined Histories and Brief Encounters (Northwestern Univ.).

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

Hollywood Reporter talks to writer-director Yulin Kuang, author of How To End a Love Story by Yulin Kuang (Avon; LJ starred review), about her forthcoming film adaptations of Emily Henry’s People We Meet on Vacation and Beach Read.

The film rights to Alice Sadie Celine, the adult debut by Sarah Blakley-Cartwright (S. & S.), have been acquired, Deadline reports.

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