Parmy Olson’s ‘Supremacy’ Wins FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year | Book Pulse

Parmy Olson’s Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race That Will Change the World is named Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year. Yan F Zhang’s short story “Fleeting Marrow” wins the 4thWrite Prize. The 2024 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant recipients are announced. Best-of-2024 lists arrive from NPR’s Maureen Corrigan, Time, Reactor, CBC, Seattle Times, BookRiot, and CrimeReads. LitHub shares the best-reviewed books of the year. Phaidon Press appoints Bob Miller as new CEO. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for top holds title What the Wife Knew by Darby Kane. Sarah J. Maas teases a new ACOTAR book, along with new audiobook recordings for spring. Plus, Clare Mulley’s The Woman Who Saved the Children will be adapted for film.

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Awards & News

Parmy Olson’s Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race That Will Change the World (St. Martin’s) is named Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year. Publishing Perspectives has coverage.

Yan F Zhang’s short story “Fleeting Marrow” wins the 4thWrite Prize. The Guardian has details.

The 2024 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant recipients are announced. LitHub has the story.

Phaidon Press appoints Bob Miller as new CEO beginning January 1, Publishers Weekly reports.

More Best of the Year Lists

NPR’s Maureen Corrigan selects her favorite books from 2024, on Fresh Air.

Time announces its top 10 fiction and nonfiction books of 2024.

Reactor reviewers select the best books of 2024.

CBC picks the best Canadian fiction of 2024.

Seattle Times selects 10 notable books of 2024.

BookRiot lists 2024’s best comics and graphic novels.

CrimeReads names the best horror fiction of the year.

The Millions“Year in Reading” series adds recommendations from Lidia Yuknavitch and Nicholas Russell.

Reviews

NYT has short reviews of six historical novels: Star 111 by Lutz Seiler, tr. by Tess Lewis (NYRB); The Last Whaler by Cynthia Reeves (Regal House); Pearly Everlasting by Tammy Armstrong (Harper); Shy Creatures by Clare Chambers (Mariner); The Wildes: A Novel in Five Acts by Louis Bayard (Algonquin; LJ starred review); and The Housekeeper’s Secret by Iona Grey (St. Martin’s).

WSJ reviews Counterfeit Spies: How World War II Intelligence Operations Shaped Cold War Spy Fiction by Oliver Buckton (Rowman & Littlefield): “In Counterfeit Spies, Oliver Buckton shows that confusing fact and fiction is the first task of spies and second nature for novelists.”

LitHub shares the best-reviewed fiction and the best-reviewed nonfiction of 2024, including list toppers Grief Is for People by Sloane Crosley (MCD) and Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel (Viking).

Briefly Noted

LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for What the Wife Knew by Darby Kane (Morrow Paperbacks), the top holds title of the week.

StarTribune offers suggestions for readers of Ann Patchett.

LJ has new prepub alerts.

NYT highlights 15 new holiday romance novels.

Vulture suggests nine LGBTQIA+ holiday romance novels.

CrimeReads offers a guide to the season’s holiday mysteries.

Bustle previews the most-anticipated winter releases.

AARP highlights 37 new winter books.

Autostraddle previews 48 most-anticipated queer books of December and January.

T&C lists 25 classic winter books.

Author Rebecca Makkai leads a literary tour through Chicago, for NYT.

Sarah J. Maas teases a new “A Court of Thorns and Roses” book as she is named Spotify's first-ever Global Top Author. Maas also announced she is re-recording all of the ACOTAR audiobooks for a spring release. People has the story.

Lily Tuck, The Rest Is Memory (Liveright), answers 10 questions at Poets & Writers.

People shares an excerpt from Inheriting Magic: My Journey Through Grief, Joy, Celebration, and Making Every Day Magical by Jennifer Love Hewitt (BenBella).

Mentalist George Kresge, a.k.a. the Amazing Kreskin, author of Secrets of the Amazing Kreskin: The World's Foremost Mentalist Reveals How You Can Expand Your Powers (Prometheus), has died at age 89. The Wrap has an obituary.

Authors on Air

PBS Newshour remembers the legendary poet Nikki Giovanni, who died at the age of 81 on Monday.

Clare Mulley’s The Woman Who Saved the Children: A Biography of Eglantyne Jebb, Founder of Save the Children (Oneworld), will be adapted for film, Deadline reports.

Under a new deal, MBC Studios will adapt novels by Saudi author Osamah Almuslim. Hollywood Reporter has details.

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