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Awards & Fall Booklists

LitHub releases “The Ultimate Fall 2024 Reading List.”

LA Times suggests five mysteries to read this fall. 

Nadia Davids wins the Caine Short Story Prize. The Guardian has coverage. 

The German Book Prize shortlist is announced. Publishing Perspectives has details. 

T&C has “A Guide to the 2024 Booker Prize Shortlist.”

Reviews

NYT reviews Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success by Russ Buettner & Susanne Craig (Penguin Pr.): “Lucky Loser almost entirely avoids contemporary politics, but by the time you’ve reached the end, the Trump playbook has become so familiar, its tactics so perfected by its practitioner, that you understand, with new depth, why things shook out as they did.” Washington Post also reviews: “The authors prove that without his father’s support, Trump would have been nothing. The book also raises a bigger question about the ‘fake it till you make it’ ethos of modern America.”

NYT also reviews On Freedom by Timothy Snyder (Crown): “With all his deep absorption in Eastern Europe, Snyder has no illusions about the dilemma of freedom in his own country.” Plus, there are short reviews of four graphic novels.

Washington Post reviews The Wildes: A Novel in Five Acts by Louis Bayard (Algonquin; LJ starred review): “The Wildes gently portrays a complicated man, the family he loved, and the man he loved with understanding and regret for the difficult choices forced upon them.”

Briefly Noted

LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for We Solve Murders by Richard Osman (Pamela Dorman: Viking), the top holds title of the week. 

LJ has new prepub alerts. 

Connie Chung talks with People about her memoir, Connie (Grand Central), “her journalism career, her marriage to Maury Povich and what it means to be a trailblazer.”

USA Today previews Melania Trump’s memoir, Melania (Skyhorse), due out on October 1. 

Entertainment Weekly interviews actor Jaleel White about his forthcoming memoir, Growing Up Urkel (S. & S.), due out November 19. 

People has a preview and cover reveal for So Gay For You: Friendship, Found Family, and the Show That Started It All by The L Word co-stars Katherine Moennig and Leisha Hailey (St. Martin’s), due out in June. 

Actor Wilmer Valderrama talks with USA Today about his new memoir, An American Story: Everyone’s Invited (Harper Select).

People speaks with Stephen Colbert and Evie McGee Colbert about their new cookbook, Does This Taste Funny?: Recipes Our Family Loves (Celadon). 

Time has an interview with teacher and podcast host Sharon McMahon about her new book, The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement (Thesis). 

White House speechwriter Terry Szuplat shares details from his new book, Say It Well: Find Your Voice, Speak Your Mind, Inspire Any Audience (Harper Business), in People.

Vogue chats with Alexandra Romanoff about her new romance, Big Fan (Authors Equity).

People shares an excerpt from Lilliam Rivera’s fashion novel Tiny Threads (Del Rey).

Srikanth Reddy, The Unsignificant (Wave), answers 10 questions at Poets&Writers. 

Authors celebrate what’s best about science fiction fantasy now and give predictions about the future of the genre, at Reactor.

CrimeReads talks with author Rebecca Makkai about her 84 Books Project and why she selected Alexandros Papadiamantis’s The Murderess, tr. by Peter Levi (NYRB Classics).

Authors on Air

PBS Canvas talks with Francis S. Collins about his new book, The Road to Wisdom: On Truth, Science, Faith, and Trust (Little, Brown). 

Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig discuss their new book, Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father’s Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success (Penguin Pr.), with NPR’s Fresh Air.

NPR’s Code Switch discusses fighting back against book bans. 

Timothy Snyder, On Freedom (Crown), appears on B&N’s Poured Over podcast.

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