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Awards & Book News

Arundhati Roy, author most recently of Azadi: Fascism, Fiction, and Freedom in the Time of the Virus, wins the PEN Pinter Prize amid prosecution threat over Kashmir comments, The Guardian reports. The prize is awarded to a writer who casts an “unflinching, unswerving” gaze on the world.

The longlist for the McIlvanney Prize for best Scottish crime novel is announced; The Bookseller has the news.

The shortlist for the TLS Ackerley Prize for memoir and autobiography is revealed, The Bookseller reports.

Authors Against Book Bans officially launches; its 1,500 members from all 50 states aim to provide support to educators, librarians, parents, and students who are the first line of defense against censorship, Publishers Weekly reports.

New Title Bestsellers

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

Fiction

Red Sky Mourning by Jack Carr (Atria/Emily Bestler) rises at No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list and No. 6 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Middle of the Night by Riley Sager (Dutton) wakes up at No. 5 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list and No. 10 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley (Morrow) gobbles up No. 6 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

Winter Lost by Patricia Briggs (Ace: Berkley) finds No. 12 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

Sandwich by Catherine Newman (Harper; LJ starred review) reaches No. 12 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

The Next Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine (Bantam) attracts No. 15 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

Nonfiction

On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service by Anthony Fauci (Viking) shoots to No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list and No. 4 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Love & Whiskey: The Remarkable True Story of Jack Daniel, His Master Distiller Nearest Green, and the Improbable Rise of Uncle Nearest by Fawn Weaver (Melcher Media) reaches No. 5 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list, though some retailers report receiving bulk orders.

Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass by Ramin Setoodeh (Harper) hits No. 7 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Burn: The Burn Boot Camp 5-Step Strategy for Inner and Outer Strength by Devan Kline & Morgan Kline (Hachette Go) burns up No. 9 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz (Farrar) breaks in at No. 14 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Reviews

NYT reviews by Tiya Miles (Penguin Pr.): “Miles calls Night Flyer a “faith biography,” emphasizing Tubman’s spirituality along with her ecological awareness, expressed as a profound attentiveness to the natural world.”

Washington Post reviews The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI by Ray Kurzweil (Viking): “His impressive grasp of computing is on display once again in his disjointed and occasionally delusional new book…. Kurzweil is a refreshingly lucid expositor of complex technical concepts, but he suffers from…an incapacity to recognize the limits of his own understanding”; and Practice by Rosalind Brown (Farrar): “One of the joys of Brown’s writing, which is often lovely even if it sometimes labors to surprise, is how lightly she lets readers make thematic connections.”

LitHub recommends “5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week.”

Briefly Noted

Gabrielle Zevin, author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Knopf; LJ starred review), answers NYT’s “By the Book” questionnaire, while Tara M. Stringfellow, Magic Enuff: Poems (Dial), shares her “Annotated Nightstand” with LitHub.

NYT talks to Emily Henry, Funny Story (Berkley; LJ starred review), about “churning out five consecutive No. 1 best-sellers without leaving her comfort zone.”

The Guardian recommends five of the best books about Turkey.

LitHub offers a neo-Western reading list and the 15 best book covers of June.

Actor Ione Skye’s memoir Say Everything will be published by Gallery in March 2025, Deadline reports.

Authors on Air

Maxim Loskutoff, author of Old King (Norton), speaks with LitHub’s Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast.

NPR’s Life Kit talks to Tali Sharot, coauthor with Cass R. Sunstein of Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There (Atria/One Signal).

NPR’s Short Wave interviews Sadie Dingfelder, author of Do I Know You?: A Faceblind Reporter’s Journey into the Science of Sight, Memory, and Imagination (Little, Brown Spark).

NPR’s Code Switch launches a new monthly series on book bans with an exploration of “one of the most banned books in America,” Mike Curato’s Flamer.

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

Zack Kaplan and John J. Pearson’s sci-fi mystery comic book Mindset (Vault Comics) is headed to the small screen, Deadline reports.

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