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Awards & Book News

A new Simon & Schuster program, Books Belong, will highlight the merits of books that have been subject to bans and will provide resources for fighting book bans. Publishers Weekly covers the news.

LJ, NYT, and NPR have coverage of ALA’s recent report on book challenges and book bans.

The Academy of American Poets has announced the 2023 winners of its annual poetry prizes.

The shortlist is announced for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Canadian nonfiction. CBC has coverage.

The shortlist is announced for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize, The Bookseller reports.

Actor and reading advocate LeVar Burton will serve as the honorary chair of this year’s Banned Books Week, the ALA announced. Kirkus has coverage.

“A boat brings books and comfort to isolated villages along Norway’s coast.” NYT has a photo-essay about the library boat’s successful fight to be funded.

Amazon will require publishers on Kindle to disclose when any of their content is generated by artificial intelligence, Fox News reports. The Guardian also has coverage.

New Title Best Sellers

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

Fiction

Code Red by Vince Flynn & Kyle Mills (Atria/Emily Bestler) blasts to No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 7 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Fall of Ruin and Wrath by Jennifer L. Armentrout (Bramble) soars to No. 6 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff (Riverhead) finds No. 8 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 13 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

23 1/2 Lies by James Patterson (Grand Central) makes its way to No. 10 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Nineteen Steps by Millie Bobby Brown, with Kathleen McGurl (Morrow), climbs to No. 11 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list and No. 13 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Mother-Daughter Murder Night by Nina Simon (Morrow; LJ starred review) kills at No. 14 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Nonfiction

Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson (S. & S.) takes No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list and No. 2 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Counting the Cost: A Memoir by Jill Duggar (Gallery) comes out at No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list and No. 8 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier by Oprah and Arthur C. Brooks (Portfolio) builds to No. 4 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

To Infinity and Beyond: A Journey of Cosmic Discovery by Neil deGrasse Tyson and Lindsey Nyx Walker (National Geographic) shoots to No. 4 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton, and Me by Bernie Taupin (Hachette; LJ starred review) hits No. 5 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal by Bettina L. Love (St. Martin’s) reaches No. 6 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein (Farrar) journeys to No. 8 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt (Crown) breaks No. 10 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss’s Glossier by Marisa Meltzer (Atria/One Signal) shines at No. 13 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Reviews

NYT reviews Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech by Brian Merchant (Little, Brown): “Merchant capably situates the Luddite story within its historical context, but, like his forebears, he uses the past as a lens onto the present.”

Washington Post reviews Devil Makes Three by Ben Fountain (Flatiron): “Horrific things happen in Devil Makes Three—plenty of them—but they’re prosecuted offstage, in the dark, by shadowy figures. To realize the full potential of a story this ambitious, the author needs to stare straight into the eyes of that third figure, that devil.”

NPR reviews Wellness by Nathan Hill (Knopf: LJ starred review): “A stunning novel about the stories that we tell about our lives and our loves, and how we sustain relationships throughout time—it’s beyond remarkable, both funny and heartbreaking, sometimes on the same page.”

Briefly Noted

LJ has new Prepub Alerts.

WNBA star A’ja Wilson will publish a self-help book, Dear Black Girls: How To Be True to You, due out from Flatiron in February 2024. Kirkus has the news.

Doris Kearns Goodwin’s next book, An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s, is due out in April 2024 from S. & S., Seattle Times reports.

Publishers Weekly explains “Why It Matters That Marvel Comics Are Becoming Penguin Classics.” They also share the news that Katie Cook’s webcomic Nothing Special will be released as a graphic novel by Ten Speed in March 2024 and share an excerpt from Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History, Nic Watts and Sakina Karimjee’s graphic-novel adaptation of C.L.R. James’s 1934 play.

NYT’s “Inside the Best-Seller List” focuses on Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments by Joe Posnanski (Dutton; LJ starred review).

EW shares details about Ghostbusters from Leslie Jones’s memoir, Leslie F*cking Jones (Grand Central). Shondaland profiles Jones, and she takes Elle’s literary survey.

Lawrence Wright, Mr. Texas (Knopf), answers NYT’s “By the Book” questionnaire.

In Washington Post, Emily Wilson explains five crucial decisions she made in her new Iliad translation (Norton).

The Guardian has an interview with novelist Julian Barnes, author of Elizabeth Finch (Knopf).

The Rumpus speaks with Rodrigo Restrepo Montoya, author of The Holy Days of Gregorio Pasos (Two Dollar Radio).

Town & Country talks to Richard Osman, author of The Last Devil To Die (Pamela Dorman: Viking; LJ starred review).

Bustle profiles Jessica Knoll, author of Bright Young Women (S. & S./Marysue Rucci; LJ starred review).

“Eliza Clark’s debut novel was a hit on TikTok. With her next book, Penance [Harper], she aims for literary longevity over viral success,” NYT reports in a profile of Clark.

Kirkus recommends “8 Works of Translated Fiction To Read Now.”

CrimeReads lists queer crime fiction coming out this fall, “10 thrilling books with twists you won’t see coming,” and “the great aunties of mystery” (a list from Mia P. Manansala).

Tor.com rounds up five classic SF works featuring the star Tau Ceti and eight novels where authors have written themselves Into the story.

Minneapolis Star-Tribune has a list of seven shocking books about real-life fires.

Electric Lit rounds up seven novels about abortion and the fight for reproductive justice.

Authors on Air

PBS Canvas interviews Ruth J. Simmons, author of Up Home: One Girl’s Journey (Random).

NPR’s Fresh Air speaks with Scott Simon, NPR Weekend Edition host and author of the audiobook exclusive Swingtime for Hitler: From Goebbels’s Jazzmen to Tokyo Rose to A.I., the Eternal Allure of Propaganda (Scribd).

Salon’s Salon Talks video series has an interview with Yvonne Orji, author of Bamboozled by Jesus: How God Tricked Me into the Life of My Dreams (Worthy: Hachette).

Shelf Awareness rounds up the schedule for this weekend’s Book TV on C-SPAN2.

Alan Duff’s novel Once Were Warriors, a novel about a family descended from Māori warriors, will get a TV adaptation and a sequel novel, Deadline reports.

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