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Awards & Book News

Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday) wins the Gotham Book Prize for the best book set in or about New York City, Shelf Awareness reports.

Nick Bradley and Ayanna Lloyd Banwo are among the 10 writers selected for the ILX 10 (International Literature Exchange) list by Britain’s National Centre for Writing, The Bookseller reports.

The Bloody Scotland Debut Prize shortlist has been revealed; The Bookseller has coverage.

The 16 writers selected for A Writing Chance, which supports writers from working-class and under-represented backgrounds, have been announced; The Bookseller has the news.

Imbalances still remain when it comes to Black authors in the bestsellers lists, The Bookseller reports.

HarperCollins launches the nonfiction imprint Harper Influence, which will publish general lifestyle, entertainment, and inspiration, Publishers Weekly reports.

An anthology edited by LJ horror columnist Becky Spratford (and including essays by the likes of Stephen Graham Jones and Tananarive Due) is being published by Saga; Why I Love Horror and Why You Should Too is due out in Sept. 2025.

New Title Bestsellers

Links for the week: NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers | NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers | USA Today Bestselling Books

Fiction

Camino Ghosts by John Grisham (Doubleday) haunts No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list and on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Southern Man by Greg Iles (Morrow) gets to No. 7 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list and No. 10 on the the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Half Blood by Jennifer L. Armentrout (Bloom) grabs No. 8 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Eruption by Michael Crichton & James Patterson (Little, Brown) incinerates No. 12 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

First Frost by Craig Johnson (Viking) freezes No. 13 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

Nonfiction

Life’s Too Short: A Memoir by Darius Rucker with Alan Eisenstock (Dey Street) takes No. 7 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon by Kevin Fedarko (Scribner) hikes to No. 11 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Fire in the Hole!: The Untold Story of My Traumatic Life and Explosive Success by Bob Parsons & Laura Morton (Forefront) explodes to No. 13 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Reviews

Washington Post reviews Consent: A Memoir by Jill Ciment (Pantheon): “Early in Consent, Ciment asks whether her marriage was all “fruit from the poisonous tree.” It is a daring question, and she is unsentimental and unflinching enough to answer it convincingly, which is to say, complexly”; When Women Ran Fifth Ave: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion by Julie Satow (Doubleday): “Satow could have focused on the stores alone, with their array of delightful bygone details. But by following Odlum, Shaver and Stutz, she posits that women, in shaping retail, invented the American fashion industry”; and The Winner by Teddy Wayne (Harper): “The tone of The Winner has a creepy Highsmithian placidity, coolly measured while depicting bad things being done and cannily covering up the evidence.”

NYT reviews Vision: A Memoir of Blindness and Justice by David S. Tatel (Little, Brown): “His book is at once a memoir of his vision of equality under the law and a memorial for it—a judgment on a judicial system that has grown blind to its betrayal of the law.”

Briefly Noted

NYT has a feature on Ruth Whippman, author of Boy Mom: Reimagining Boyhood in the Age of Impossible Masculinity (Harmony).

LA Times talks to comedy writer Ian Karmel, coauthor (with Alisa Karmel) of T-Shirt Swim Club: Stories from Being Fat in a World of Thin People (Rodale).

Vulture interviews actor Griffin Dunne about his new book The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir (Penguin Pr.).

The Millions talks to Judi Dench and Brendan O’Hea, authors of Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent (St. Martin’s; LJ starred review).

Morgan Talty, author of Fire Exit (Tin House), lets LitHub know what’s on his “Annotated Nightstand.”

Jaqueline Winspear, author of The Comfort of Ghosts (Soho Crime; LJ starred review), answers NYT’s “By the Book” questionnaire.

Musician Neko Case announces her memoir, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You, due out from Grand Central in January; People has the news.

Publishers Weekly has the story of “A Pioneering Queer Novelist, Reissued by an Unlikely Publisher”: five books by Fritz Peters, originally published in the 1950s and 1960s, are being brought out again by the production company Hirsch Giovanni, making its first foray into publishing. Actor Emile Hirsch will narrate audiobook versions, Variety reports.

The Guardian gathers five of the best books about fatherhood, while Reactor has “five very good cat people in SF and fantasy,” and CrimeReads lists crime fiction that demonstrates a fascination with fame.

Reactor rounds up all the new science fiction arriving in June 2024.

In LitHub, Kyle Dillon Hertz, author of The Lookback Window (S. & S.), revisits Laura van den Berg’s “timeless classic,” The Isle of Youth: Stories, which was recently re-released by Picador.

Authors on Air

PBS Newshour interviews Mickey Bergman, coauthor of In the Shadows: True Stories of High-Stakes Negotiations to Free Americans Captured Abroad (Center Street).

Tomorrow, CBS Mornings will talk to Charles Lachman, author of Codename Nemo: The Hunt for a Nazi U-Boat and the Elusive Enigma Machine (Diversion); Elvira K. Gonzalez, author of Hurdles in the Dark: My Story of Survival, Resilience, and Triumph (Roaring Brook), will visit with Tamron Hall.

Shelf Awareness rounds up the schedule for this weekend’s Book TV on C-SPAN 2, which is set at the Gaithersburg Book Festival.

The historical drama Small Things Like These, based on the novel by Claire Keegan and produced by and starring Cillian Murphy, has been acquired by Lionsgate; Deadline has the news.

The British crime drama Dope Girls, based on Marek Kohn’s Dope Girls: The Birth of the British Drug Underground, has been acquired by Crave, according to Deadline.

Abbi Jacobson will adapt Isle McElroy’s novel People Collide as a series, Kirkus says.

Netflix Brazil is bringing Paulo Coelho’s The Pilgrimage to the screen, Deadline reports.

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