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Awards & Book News

The winners of the AAAS/Subaru Prize for Excellence in Science Books are announced, including one adult book, The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants by Karen Bakker (Princeton Univ.).

Tom Lake by Ann Patchett (Harper) and The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl (Spiegel & Grau) win the Southern Book Prize.

Margaret Atwood wins the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference Writer in the World Prize for her impact on literature, art and culture; CBC has coverage.

CBC explores “how social media is influencing the romance novel genre—and wider trends in fiction.”

“Bloomsbury expects revenue and profit to exceed expectations with growth driven by fantasy,” The Bookseller reports, as do Publishers Weekly and The Guardian.

“Leaked Emails Reveal Hugo Awards Ineligibility Details,” Locus reports, about the 2023 Hugo Awards controversy.

New Title Best Sellers

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

Fiction

The Women by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin’s) takes No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best-Seller list and the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

The Teacher by Freida McFadden (Sourcebooks; LJ starred review) reaches No. 3 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Bride by Ali Hazelwood (Berkley; LJ starred review) is wedded to No. 4 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Chainsaw Man, Vol. 14 by Tatsuki Fujimoto (VIZ Media) cuts down No. 8 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

The Ghost Orchid by Jonathan Kellerman (Ballantine) blossoms at No. 12 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best-Seller list.

Nonfiction

Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America by Joy-Ann Reid (Mariner) awakens at No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best-Seller list.

Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How To See by Bianca Bosker (Viking) journeys to No. 10 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best-Seller list.

Outofshapeworthlessloser by Gracie Gold (Crown) wins No. 11 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best-Seller list.

Reviews

Washington Post reviews Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spuford (Scribner): “Spufford clearly has a blast in Cahokia Jazz, summoning up the language and all the traditional tropes of a 1920s hard-boiled tale…and wedding them to an alternative American history narrative that pointedly comments on the present”; The Power To Destroy: How the Antitax Movement Hijacked America by Michael J. Graetz (Princeton Univ.): “Belongs in the growing pantheon of books that help us understand how the GOP became what it is today. It’s also an essential resource for understanding the fiscal storm clouds that Graetz sees on the horizon”; and Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage, and the Making of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Philip Gefter (Bloomsbury; LJ starred review): “A lively, well-researched book that displays great affection for the film and the highly gifted and vastly troublesome people who made it.”

NYT reviews Neighbors and Other Stories by Diane Oliver (Grove): “Such luminous simplicity is deceptive; these stories detail basic routines of getting through difficult days, but then often deliver a massive wallop”; and Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story by Leslie Jamison (Little, Brown): “Jamison’s excellent prose has always retained the aura of the M.F.A.—the sacral feelings about writing as a vocation, the incredibly careful similes, as if a firing squad awaited each one in judgment.”

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

Briefly Noted

Vanity Fair talks to Tommy Orange, who aims to “undo the white-dominant American narrative” with his new book, Wandering Stars (Knopf).

The Rumpus interviews Amy Kurzweil, author of Artificial: A Love Story (Catapult; LJ starred review), and Kate Brody, author of Rabbit Hole (Soho Crime).

Heather O’Neill, When We Lost Our Heads (Riverhead), shares with CBC six books that fostered her love of reading.

Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood (Gallery), answers NYT’s “By the Book” questionnaire, while Kelly Link, The Book of Love (Random), takes LitHub’s “The Annotated Nightstand” survey.

People shares “the biggest bombshells” from Philip Gefter’s Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage, and the Making of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Bloomsbury; LJ starred review), while LA Times has an interview with Gefter.

NYT goes “Inside the Best-Seller List” with Dolly Alderton’s Good Material (Knopf).

CrimeReads discusses “the power of neurodiverse characters in mysteries.”

The Guardian rounds up “five of the best campus novels.”

NYT “dabbles in the Anne de Courcy extended universe.”

In LitHub, Maris Kreizman asks, “Can We Please Put an End to Overperformed Audiobooks?,” while Hannah Levene, Greasepaint (Nightboat), discusses the history of butch lesbian literature.

“Korean bookstores in L.A. are dying. Here’s how one survives,” LA Times reports.

Authors on Air

Curtis Sittenfeld’s novel Romantic Comedy (Random; LJ starred review) has been acquired for adaptation into a film, Deadline reports.

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

Tomorrow, Billy Dee Williams, What Have We Here?: Portraits of a Life (Knopf), will appear on the Kelly Clarkson Show; Jon Kung, Kung Food: Chinese American Recipes from a Third-Culture Kitchen (Clarkson Potter), will appear on the Drew Barrymore Show; and Michael Todd, Damaged but Not Destroyed: From Trauma to Triumph (WaterBrook), will appear on GMA.

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