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Awards, Best of 2024 Lists & Book News

Joseph Earl Thomas’s God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer (Grand Central) wins the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize.

Poets & Writers shares its 20th annual look at debut poets.

Tessa Hull’s Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir (MCD; an LJ Best Book) and Leela Corman’s Victory Parade (Schocken) top Publishers Weekly’s 2024 Graphic Novel Critics Poll.

CrimeReads selects the best horror novels of 2024.

New Title Bestsellers

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

Fiction

Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson (Tor) blows to No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list and the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Quicksilver by Callie Hart (Forever) shoots to No. 5 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Nonfiction

Main Street Millionaire: How To Make Extraordinary Wealth Buying Ordinary Businesses by Cody Sanchez (Portfolio) gains No. 10 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Your Mom’s Gonna Love Me by Matt Rife (Gallery) gets No. 12 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list, though some retailers report receiving bulk orders.

Reviews

LA Times reviews No Place To Bury the Dead by Karina Sainz Borgo, tr. by Elizabeth Bryer (HarperVia): “Yet the plot isn’t really the point of No Place To Bury the Dead, which often dwells on quiet moments of pain, showcasing the small ways a migration crisis robs people of their dignity”; and The Rest Is Memory by Lily Tuck (Liveright: Norton): “Her tale, structured as a series of short takes, is a shimmeringly delicate invention. Cool and spare, the third-person narrative zigzags through time, accumulating authenticity and power. It is hard to stop reading.”

NYT reviews The Icon and the Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry That Brought Birth Control to America by Stephanie Gorton (Ecco): “Using previously unpublished letters and manuscripts, she offers the reader an emotionally palpable glimpse into the culture clash between the feminist movement and the patriarchal, recalcitrant political establishment—as well as the struggle between the ideological allies Sanger and Dennett.”

Briefly Noted

Brandon Shimoda, author of The Afterlife Is Letting Go (City Lights), shares his “Annotated Nightstand” with LitHub.

S.E. Hinton, author of The Outsiders, answers NYT’s “By the Book” questionnaire.

Reactor has “5 Unique, Contemporary Adaptations of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.”

USA Today suggests short books for those who are behind on their yearly reading goal.

Washington Post lists “6 cozy romance novels for Hallmark movie fans.”

LitHub shares “The Best (Old) Books We Read in 2024.”

EarlyWord releases the roundup for its December GalleyChat.

The Millions’ “A Year in Reading” series adds recommendations from Lili Anolik and Daniel Saldaña París.

Constantia Constantinou, former director of libraries at the University of Pennsylvania, is tapped to lead the Whiting Foundation, Publishers Weekly reports.

Publishers Weekly explores how CEO Mary McAveney has put her stamp on Abrams Books, including focusing on books-as-objects and manga.

PRH will distribute Boom! Studios comic books and graphic novels, Publishers Weekly reports.

Authors on Air

Aaron Robertson, author of The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America (Farrar), is featured on NPR’s Code Switch.

On PBS News Hour, Bryce Stevenson reflects on inequities in justice system 10 years after the release of his book Just Mercy.

There is a feature adaptation in the works for Stephen King’s short story “Autopsy Room Four,” Reactor reports.

Today, NPR’s Here & Now will host Jim O’Heir, author of Welcome to Pawnee: Stories of Friendship, Waffles, and “Parks and Recreation” (Morrow), while Fresh Air will interview Stephen Colbert and Evie McGee Colbert, authors of Does This Taste Funny?: Recipes Our Family Loves (Celadon).

Tomorrow, GMA will talk to David Ko, author of Recharge: Boosting Your Mental Battery, One Conversation at a Time (ForbesBooks).

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

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