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Awards & Book News

Native Nations: A Millennium in North America by Kathleen DuVal (Random; LJ starred review) wins the Cundill History Prize.

NYT reports on librarian burnout in the face of the “crisis of violence and abuse” that libraries are encountering.

Poets & Writers reports on the effects of Book Drop 2024, which brought a bookmobile to six locations across the “book desert” of the Navajo Nation.

A group of independent book publishers has launched a campaign to combat book banning called “We Are Stronger Than Censorship,” according to the Bay Area Reporter.

Some Nobel and Pulitzer winners have signed an open letter denouncing cultural boycotts of Israel, The Guardian reports.

Shifting away from its unlimited subscription model, Scribd’s Everand reading platform has launched a credit-based system, with expanded access to books from the big five trade publishers, Publishers Weekly reports.

New Title Bestsellers

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

Fiction

In Too Deep by Lee Child & Andrew Child (Delacorte) is in deep at No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list and No. 3 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Bloodguard by Cecy Robson (Entangled) defends No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list and No. 14 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Absolution by Jeff VanderMeer (MCD) finds No. 7 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list and No. 13 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

The Christmas Tree Farm by Laurie Gilmore (One More Chapter) grows to No. 8 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Memorials by Richard Chizmar (Gallery; LJ starred review) holds No. 10 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

Nonfiction

Brothers by Alex Van Halen (Harper) reaches No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list and No. 5 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Patriot by Alexei Navalny (Knopf) receives No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list and No. 7 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Matty Matheson: Soups, Salads, Sandwiches by Matty Matheson (Ten Speed) serves up No. 6 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show (While Also in an Actual Cult!) by Bethany Joy Lenz (S. & S.) bites into No. 12 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

The King Arthur Baking Company Big Book of Bread: 125+ Recipes for Every Baker by King Arthur Bakery (S. & S./Simon Element) rises to No. 12 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Medal of Honor: True Stories of America’s Most Decorated Military Heroes by James Patterson & Matt Eversman (Little, Brown) fights for No. 13 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Reviews

Washington Post reviews The Magnificent Ruins by Nayantara Roy (Algonquin): “Roy’s roomy novel draws us deep into the way family history is inscribed on buildings. With The Magnificent Ruins, she proves herself a daring architect, taking full advantage of this sprawling plot to explore a family shaken to its foundation”; The Price of Power: How Mitch McConnell Mastered the Senate, Changed America and Lost His Party by Michael Tackett (S. & S.): “But apart from a half-hearted attempt to describe the dour McConnell as ‘more complex and complicated’ than commonly assumed, Tackett doesn’t really attempt to assess him or his legacy for the GOP”; and three fantasy novels “that revel in dark seduction”: The City in Glass by Nghi Vo (Tor.com), Heir by Sabaa Tahir (Putnam Books for Young Readers), and Immortal Dark by Tigest Girma (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers).

NYT reviews four “smart, riveting” new crime novels: The Drowned by John Banville (Hanover Square), The Arizona Triangle by Sydney Graves (Harper), Brooklyn Kills Me by Emily Schultz (Thomas & Mercer), and Exposure by Ramona Emerson (Soho Crime).

LA Times reviews Lazarus Man by Richard Price (Farrar): “[Price’s] writing for film and television is equally venerated…. So it’s no surprise that Lazarus Man contains many cinematic moments, even if the plot meanders at times. Toward the story’s end, it regains momentum and cohesion; in one way or another, each of the primary characters finds what they’re looking for.”

LitHub gathers October’s best-reviewed fiction and nonfiction.

Briefly Noted

Stanley Tucci, author of What I Ate in One Year (and Related Thoughts) (Gallery; LJ starred review), answers NYT’s “By the Book” questionnaire.

Vulture talks to Scott Hawkins, whose 2015 fantasy novel, The Library at Mount Char, was popular and well-regarded but whose writing career has struggled since.

Inspired by Gillian Anderson’s Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous (Abrams), The Guardian asks, “Are we entering a new era of erotic literature?”

In Vulture, the writers and agents behind the scenes explain how celebrities’ novels are created.

Charles Brandt, whose bestselling true-crime book I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa inspired The Irishman, has died at age 82; NYT has an obituary.

Military historian Lewis Sorley, author of the key revisionist 1999 book A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America’s Last Years in Vietnam, has died at age 90; NYT has an obituary.

Authors on Air

The Emergence Magazine Podcast interviews poet Jane Hirshfield, author of The Asking: New and Selected Poems (Knopf).

In the lead-up to the U.S. election, LitHub’s Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast talks to novelist Jess Walter about Trump.

PBS News Hour speaks with photographer Paul Shambroom, whose new photobook, Purpletown: Photographs and Voices from America’s Thin Divide, documents U.S. communities where Trump and Biden tied in the 2020 presidential election.

GMA has a roundup of the books that have recently appeared on the show.

Tomorrow, Eva Longoria, author of My Mexican Kitchen: 100 Recipes Rich with Tradition, Flavor, and Spice (Clarkson Potter), will visit with the Kelly Clarkson Show.

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

LitHub recommends “the literary film and TV you need to stream in November.”

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