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Forthcoming Book News

Square Enix’s Kingdom Hearts: Character Files will be published by Dark Horse in English for the first time on Oct. 19. Polygon has the news.

The United States of Captain America by Christopher Cantwell and drawn by Dale Eaglesham (Marvel Comics) will feature the first LGBTQ-identifying Captain America. The miniseries launches June 2. Entertainment Weekly has a look.

Jay-Z's Roc Lit 101, an imprint of Random House, will publish Lucky Me, the memoir of renowned sports agent Rich Paul. The Hollywood Reporter has details.

Comedian and actress Iliza Shlesinger is working on All Things Aside (Abrams), a book of essays. It's scheduled for release next year. Deadline reports.

Cousins Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki are collaborating on another, yet-untitled graphic novel, which will be out 2023 from Drawn & Quarterly. The CBC has details.

Read an excerpt from A River Called Time by Courttia Newland (Akashic) at Tor.com. It's due out April 6.

New Title Bestsellers

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

Fiction

2034: A Novel of the Next World War by James Stavridis and Elliot Ackerman (Penguin) starts at No. 6 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Fast Ice by Clive Cussler and Graham Brown (G.P. Putnam's Sons: Penguin) glides in at No. 7 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 9 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

The Rose Code by Kate Quinn (William Morrow: HarperCollins; LJ starred review) is No. 15 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Nonfiction

The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson (S. & S.) debuts at No. 1 on both the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list and the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Everything Will Be Okay: Life Lessons for Young Women (from a Former Young Woman) by Dana Perino (Twelve: Hachette) is No. 2 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self by Dr. Nicole LePera (Harper Wave) worked its way to No. 5 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Reviews

The NYT reviews Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction by Kate Masur (W. W. Norton; LJ starred review): "Masur takes care to show not only the limitations of what was achieved at each step but also how even the smallest step could lead to another." Also, Mine!: How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives by Michael A. Heller and James Salzman (Doubleday: Random House): "Their book is part of a genre — call it 'pop law' — in which scholars put aside the language of the academy and talk plainly about how law matters in real people’s lives." Creatures of Passage by Morowa Yejidé (Akashic; LJ starred review): "The novel’s movement isn’t forward so much as in spirals and, in parts, the tale becomes unmoored as the reader is plunged into a profusion of bad-luck back stories."

NPR reviews Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic by Glenn Frankel (FSG: Macmillan; LJ starred review): "He's such a gifted storyteller that you don't even have to be familiar with the film to find the book fascinating."

Book Marks picks “5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week.”

Briefly Noted

The shortlist for the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism is up. The winner will be announced in May.

Shelf Awareness previews new books out next week.

Parade offers "20 Classic and New Books About Feminism That Will Get You Thinking and Talking."

Stephen King recommends 10 pulp crime authors at CrimeReads.

Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters (Viking: Penguin), suggests "7 of the Best Mystery Novels Set by the Sea" at Electric Lit.

Entertainment Weekly's "What's in a Page" column features Miranda Popkey, Topics of Conversation (Knopf: Random House).

The NYT goes "Inside the List" with Sarah Penner, The Lost Apothecary (Park Row: HarperCollins).

The Rumpus interviews Roberto Carlos Garcia, [Elegies] (Flowersong).

Malinda Lo discusses Last Night at the Telegraph Club (Dutton Books for Young Readers) with Kirkus.

The L.A. Times talks with Jo Ann Beard about weaving together fiction and nonfiction in Festival Days (Little, Brown: Hachette).

Elle's "Shelf Life" column features Imbolo Mbue, How Beautiful We Were (Random House).

The NYT looks at how virtual writing groups have helped people build community and stay accountable to writing goals during the pandemic. Also, an exploration of how the Book Review has evolved since 1896.

The NPD Group looks at book sales following adaptations released on streaming video on-demand services, and found that not all see as big a bump as Bridgerton.

The American Booksellers Association released a white paper recommending that "Amazon be broken up into at least four autonomous companies: retail, e-commerce marketplace platform, web services, and logistics."

Authors on Air

City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit by Elmore Leonard will be adapted as a series for FX by the creators of Justified. Variety reports.

The film rights have been picked up for the forthcoming novel The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward. Warner Bros. and DC Films will adapt the comic Hourman as a feature film. Ridley Scott and Steven Knight are partnering on the 10-episode series Roads to Freedom, based on the World War II books by Antony Beevor. Deadline has news on all. 

Authors N.K. Jemisin and Chinelo Onwualu talk about Afrofuturism on the BBC's The Conversation.

Elon Green discusses Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York (Celadon: Macmillan) on The Maris Review podcast.

NPR's All Things Considered interviews Jakob Guanzon, Abundance (Graywolf: Macmillan).

"I'm trying to bring something into being and sometimes I can do it and sometimes I can't," says Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun (Knopf: Random House; LJ starred review), on NPR's Fresh Air.

Giada De Laurentiis, Eat Better, Feel Better: My Recipes for Wellness and Healing, Inside and Out (Rodale: Random House) will be on The Ellen DeGeneres Show today.

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