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Lots of Lists

AARP picks "20 New Novels for Spring."

O: The Oprah Magazine lists 42 LGBTQ books coming soon.

The A.V. Club suggests "5 new books to read in March."

CrimeReads recommends 10 books to read this month.

The Millions lists "six notable books of poetry publishing this month."

BuzzFeed selects the 20 best books out this week.

People also chooses favorites out this week.

Refinery29 lists inspiring "new school self-help books."

Lit Hub has "Five New Books That Engage with the Climate Crisis."

New Title Bestsellers

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

Fiction

The Kaiser's Web by Steve Berry (Minotaur: Macmillan) starts at No. 8 on both the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Triple Chocolate Cheesecake Murder by Joanne Fluke (Kensington) is No. 11 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Kingdom of Shadow and Light: A Fever Novel by Karen Marie Moning (Delacorte: Random House) shines at No. 12 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 10 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Nonfiction

Believe IT: How to Go from Underestimated to Unstoppable by Jamie Kern Lima (Gallery: S. & S.) debuts at No. 3 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Audio

The NYT Audio Fiction top bestseller for March is The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin's: Macmillan; LJ starred review). The No. 1 Audio Nonfiction for March is Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey (Crown: Random House).

Reviews

NPR reviews Home Is Not a Country by Safia Elhillo (Make Me a World: Random House): "...a love letter to anyone who has ever been an outsider, or searched to understand their history, no matter where they come from."

The L.A. Times reviews Acts of Desperation by Megan Nolan (Little, Brown: Hachette): "Nolan shows that as long as we are grappling with ideas about women’s desirability that have been authored by men, women are in a sense realized by the male gaze."

USA Today reviews Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro (Knopf: Random House; LJ starred review), which earns 3.5 stars: "'Klara and the Sun' is 'The Velveteen Rabbit' by way of Steven Spielberg’s 'A.I.' absent sentimentality."

The Washington Post reviews Monkey King: Journey to the West by Wu Cheng’en, translated and edited by Julia Lovell (Penguin Classics: Random House): "Unfortunately, there’s just no real suspense to the various challenges facing our heroes."

The NYT has brief reviews on new books that reflect "The Panic of the 30-Somethings, and More."

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

Briefly Noted

Joseph "Joe Exotic" Maldonado-Passage is working on Tiger King: The Official Tell-All Memoir (Gallery: S. & S.). It's due out Nov. 9. USA Today has more info.

Joy Williams will publish her first novel since 2000 with Harrow (Knopf: Random House), which is due out Sept. 14. Lit Hub has details.

Entertainment Weekly has an excerpt from Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff VanderMeer (MCD: Macmillan), which is due out April 6.

Tor.com excerpts Sing Me Forgotten by Jessica S. Olson (Inkyard: HarperCollins). It's out next week.

Keanu Reeves has a new comic book series, BRZRKR (Boom! Studios), with the first issue out this week. The NYT notes it's received a ton of orders from comic retailers.

"There’s things in the book that are so fantastical, they either couldn’t possibly be true or they could be," Derek DelGaudio says of Amoralman: A True Story and Other Lies (Knopf: Random House) in a Q&A with the NYT.

Naima Coster, What's Mine and Yours (Grand Central: Hachette), talks with Electric Lit about "anti-Blackness and racism, motherhood and loneliness," and more.

BOMB interviews Jakob Guanzon, Abundance (Graywolf: Macmillan).

Beth Kephart discusses Wife | Daughter | Self: A Memoir in Essays (Forest Avenue) with The Rumpus.

People profiles Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb (Viking: Penguin).

Chris Whitaker, We Begin at the End (Henry Holt: Macmillan), does a Q&A with Amazon. He also suggests six books with great kid narrators at Lit Hub, and discusses his job at a local library at CrimeReads.

The NYT goes "Inside the List" with Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together (One World: Random House; LJ starred review). The "By the Book" column features translator Margaret Jull Costa.

Kiley Reid, Such a Fun Age (G.P. Putnam's Sons: Penguin; LJ starred review), shares inspirational books for Elle's "Shelf Life" column.

Safia Elhillo, Home Is Not a Country (Make Me a World: Random House), discusses writing a novel in verse with Kirkus.

Parade speaks with Temple Grandin, The Outdoor Scientist: The Wonder of Observing the Natural World (Philomel: Random House), about the importance of both schedules and play for kids during isolation. 

Jean-David Morvan talks with Publishers Weekly about how Muhammad Ali, Kinshasa 1974 (Titan) came to be.

W.S. Winslow, The Northern Reach (Flatiron: Macmillan), suggests other books that feature Maine at Electric Lit.

BookPage recommends "Writers to watch: 10 women on the rise."

BBC Culture speaks with authors including Ahmed Saadawi and Kazuo Ishiguro about "the Frankenstein's monster of the 21st Century."

Jenny Han, Always and Forever, Lara Jean (S. & S.), shares items she can't live without, including seasoning to make movie-theater popcorn at home, with The Strategist.

Michiko Kakutani, whose photographs are featured in Bette Midler's The Tale of the Mandarin Duck: A Modern Fable (Random House Books for Young Readers), takes a look at more visitors to Central Park in the NYT.

Emma Brown discusses To Raise a Boy: Classrooms, Locker Rooms, Bedrooms, and the Hidden Struggles of American Boyhood (Atria/One Signal: S. & S.; LJ starred review) with Salon. 

The editor of The Paris Review, Emily Nemens, is leaving her role to complete a second novel. The NYT looks at the news, along with other recent moves at literary magazines.

Mariah Carey's older brother is suing her for defamation, saying her recent memoir contains lies about him. Her sister filed similar claims in a separate lawsuit about a month ago. USA Today has details.

Book Riot has a brief history of the exclamation mark!

Authors on Air

Rebekah Taussig will co-write and executive produce the series adaptation of her memoir, Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body, for ABC Signature. Deadline has more.

Gore Verbinski will direct a feature adaptation of Sandkings by George R.R. Martin for Netflix. Collider has details.

See the preview for Without Remorse, based on the book Tom Clancy. It debuts on Amazon Prime Video April 30.

Heather McGhee discusses The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together (One World: Random House; LJ starred review) on the Keen On podcast.

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