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 News & Buzzy Books

December’s Indie Next list is out, featuring #1 pick The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer, illus. by John Burgoyne (Scribner). 

The Blue Hour by Paula Hawkins (Mariner) is the GMA November book club pick.

We Will Be Jaguars: A Memoir of My People by Nemonte Nenquimo & Mitch Anderson (Abrams; LJ starred review) is Reese Witherspoon's pick. 

Taylor Jenkins Reid previews her forthcoming novel Atmosphere, due out June 3, in an interview with Vogue.

Tina Knowles will release a memoir, Matriarch (One World), in April. USA Today has coverage, as do People and LA Times. 

Publishing Perspectives recaps the latest AAP StatShot, which shows the book publishing trade was up 8.1 percent year-to-date in August.

Reviews

Washington Post reviews Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel’s Messiah by Charles King (Doubleday): “King transforms Handel’s world into a place we can all recognize and understand as the foundation for our own”; and Eurotrash by Christian Kracht, tr. by Daniel Bowles (Liveright: Norton): “Psychogarbage or not, “Eurotrash” is a brilliant and unsettling reckoning with history and memory, and with the ambiguities inherent in the art of writing fiction in the first place.”

NYT reviews Bandit Heaven: The Hole-in-the-Wall Gangs and the Final Chapter of the Wild West by Tom Clavin (St. Martin’s): “This is no tale of black hats versus white hats; history rarely is. But rather than provide shades of gray, Clavin—a best-selling author of World War II and Wild West histories—renders the good, the bad and the ugly in the same monotone.”

CrimeReads shares the best reviewed books of October. 

Briefly Noted

LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for The Grey Wolf by Louise Penny (Minotaur; LJ starred review), the top holds title of the week. 

LJ has new prepub alerts. 

NYT previews 12 books that publish in November. 

T&C highlights 20 werewolf books. 

People previews Brittainy Cherry’s forthcoming romance, If You Stayed (Sourcebooks Casablanca), due out April 22.

NYT profiles John Green and his forthcoming nonfiction book, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Crash Course), due out in March 2025.

Ilana Kaplan discusses her new book, Nora Ephron at the Movies: A Visual Celebration of the Writer and Director Behind When Harry Met Sally, You’ve Got Mail, Sleepless in Seattle, and More (Abrams), and the films that didn’t work, at Vanity Fair. 

People has a preview and cover reveal for Lisa Jewell’s next book, Don't Let Him In (Atria), due out June 24. 

Glory Edim, Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me (Ballantine), takes Elle’s “Shelf Life” questionnaire. 

Mike Fu, Masquerade (Tin House), answers 10 questions at Poets & Writers.

Fly fishing writer John Gierach dies at age 77. NYT has an obituary. 

Authors On Air

Gillian Anderson will co-produce a new TV adaptation of Alan Murrin’s The Coast Road (HarperVia). People has the story. Anderson also discusses her favorite books with Bustle. 

Authors Joe Hill and Stephen Graham Jones recommend great horror books on the NYT Book Review podcast.

Alex van Halen talks with NPR’s Fresh Air about his new book, Brothers (Harper).

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