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Awards & Best of Booklists

This year’s Baillie Gifford Prize finalists are announced. The Guardian covers the women-dominated shortlist. 

The 2022 Harvey Awards winners are announced. 

The 2022 Richell Prize shortlist is announced.

Abduljalil al-Singace is named PEN’s International Writer of Courage. The Guardian reports.

The Queen Consort Camilla and singer Dua Lipa will join the Booker Prize ceremony on October 17. The Bookseller has the story. 

Barnes & Noble shares their best books of 2022.

BBC lists their 39 best books of the year so far.

Big Books of the Week

Long Shadows by David Baldacci (Grand Central) leads library holds this week.

Other titles in demand include:

The Maze by Nelson DeMille (Scribner)

Distant Thunder by Stuart Woods (Putnam)

The High Notes by Danielle Steel (Delacorte)

Dark Whisper by Christine Feehan (Berkley)

These books and others being published during the week of October 10 are listed in a downloadable spreadsheet.

Librarians and Booksellers Suggest

Two LibraryReads and two Indie Next picks publish this week:

Little Eve by Catriona Ward (Tor Nightmare)

“When a clan’s ritualistic murder goes awry, Chief Inspector Black investigates what led to this gruesome scene. The isolated setting of an isle off the coast of Scotland and Ward’s lyrical prose contribute to the sinister tone of this atmospheric tale.”—Chloe Whittaker, Troy Public Library, Troy, NY

Mistakes Were Made by Meryl Wilsner (St. Martin’s Griffin)

“Cassie and Erin hook up at a bar, but then unexpectedly meet again the next morning at breakfast with Parker, Erin’s daughter and Cassie’s friend. This affecting romance is steamy. The tension is from their ‘forbidden’ relationship—and it's because they're lying to Parker, not because they’re bi or the age gap. For fans of Alexandria Bellefleur.”—Cari Dubiel, Twinsburg Public Library, Twinsburg, OH

Mistakes Were Made is also an Indie Next pick:

“A one-night stand gets awkward when Cassie realizes the gorgeous older woman she hooked up with is her best friend’s mom. Whoops! I enjoyed the authentic characters and subversive plots. Watch out—the love scenes are scorching hot!”—Stefani Kelley, The Book Nook, Brenham, TX

One additional Indie Next pick publishes this week:

Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet (Norton)

“Only Lydia Millet can make me love a rich guy protagonist. Dinosaurs is a short, wonderful book told with keen sensitivity to the characters and the natural world around them. Millet’s brief and bright sentences carry so much in them.”—Anton Bogomazov, Politics and Prose Bookstore, Washington, DC

In the Media

The People magazine “Picks” book of the week is Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan (Ballantine). Also getting attention are Stay True: A Memoir by Hua Hsu (Doubleday) and Daughters of the New Year by E. M. Tran (Hanover Square: Harlequin). People’s “New in Paperback” section highlights Smile: The Story of a Face by Sarah Ruhl (S. & S.), The Doomsday Mother: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and the End of an American Family by Jon Glatt (St. Martin’s), and Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers (Mariner). Their “Bonus” pick is One More Lap: Jimmie Johnson and the #48 by Jimmie Johnson and Ivan Shaw (Rizzoli).

“The Picks” section spotlights Confess, Fletch, based on the book by Gregory Mcdonald.

Geena Davis, whose memoir Dying of Politeness (HarperOne) arrives this week, discusses five moments that changed her life. Plus, there is a feature on Nora McInerny’s new book Bad Vibes Only (And Other Things I Bring to the Table) (Atria/One Signal).

Reviews

NYT reviews Illuminations by Alan Moore (Bloomsbury): “The question Moore seems to raise in Illuminations—and I can’t imagine a more appropriate one for our monstrous times, nor a better writer to thread its labyrinths—is what happens when one is both the hierophant and the monster: What is revealed then? Or scarier: What is hidden?” And The Hollow Kind by Andy Davidson (MCD): “In addition to a horror novel and a work of historical fiction about the 20th-century American South, The Hollow Kind is also an environmental allegory, a creepy variation on Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax.” Also, Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet (Norton): “Millet keeps thwarting the reader’s expectations of drama, and offers instead a subdued portrait of a wounded middle-aged man’s journey toward wholeness.”  And Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller (Scribner): “Holy moly, it’s good to read a book about tech that’s not about software. Silicon chips are the substrate of digitization. Trying to understand the digital world by studying only Facebook or Google is like trying to understand architecture by studying only frescoes.” Plus, Morgenthau: Power, Privilege, and the Rise of an American Dynasty by Andrew Meier (Random House): “Meier’s gracefully written account doesn’t neatly cohere along a single theme, but that may just reflect the messy realities of family life.”

The Washington Post reviews Which Side Are You On by Ryan Lee Wong (Catapult): “Wong’s main characters are wonderfully crafted and deeply human in their fallibility.” Plus, a review of four sci-fi and fantasy books that deal with climate change.

Datebook reviews Liberation Day: Stories by George Saunders (Random): “Liberation Day carries echoes of Saunders’s previous work, but the ideas in this collection are more complex and nuanced, perhaps reflecting the new complexities of this brave new world of ours.”

Slate reviews The Hero of This Book by Elizabeth McCracken (Ecco): “The Hero of This Book is a loving, moving portrait of Natalie McCracken that doubles as a wry, helpful guide for any writer to not freak out so much about how to categorize what she is writing.”

OprahDaily reviews two books by Cleyvis Natera and Naima Coster. 

Briefly Noted

LA Times interviews actress and comedian Iliza Shlesinger about her new book, All Things Aside: Absolutely Correct Opinions (Abrams Image), and new Netflix special. There is also an interview with Christopher Rivas about his new book, Brown Enough: True Stories About Love, Violence, the Student Loan Crisis, Hollywood, Race, Familia, and Making It in America (Row House Publishing). Plus, a chat with Lydia Millet about her new book Dinosaurs (Norton), which is also the Times Book Club October selection.

USA Today talks with Linda Ronstadt about her new memoir Feels Like Home: A Song for the Sonoran Borderlands, written with Lawrence Downes (Heyday).

Entertainment Weekly writes about Alan Moore, whose book of short stories, Illuminations (Bloomsbury), releases today, and his decision to leave comics. Read the interview at The Guardian.

NYT writes about Colleen Hoover’s singluar rule over the bestseller lists. Plus, Good Morning America shares an excerpt from Hoover’s forthcoming book, It Starts with Us (Atria), which publishes October 18.

AARP previews Janet Evanovich’s forthcoming Stephanie Plum novel, Going Rogue: Rise and Shine Twenty-Nine (Atria), due out November 1. 

NYT explores a new vanguard of Latin American women writing horror.

USA Today picks five books for the week.

CrimeReads suggests 10 books out this week.

LitHub has 20 new books for the week.

Authors On Air

CBS Sunday Morning interviews NYT reporters Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe about their new book When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World’s Most Powerful Consulting Firm (Doubleday) and provides an excerpt. 

NPR’s Morning Edition talks with Annie Proulx about her new book Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis (Scribner).

NPR’s Fresh Air discusses Mar-a-Lago documents with Maggie Haberman, author of Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America (Penguin Pr.).

LA Times features two podcasters who set out to read every Agatha Christie novel and their long-running podcast, All About Agatha. 

Amazon Freevee orders a pilot based on Jessica Simpson’s memoir Open Book (Dey Street). Entertainment Weekly reports.

Kindred, an adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s novel, gets a premiere date of December 13 on Hulu.  Deadline reports. 

William Gibson’s The Peripheral has a new trailer. Tor.com reports. 

Geena Davis, author of the memoir Dying of Politeness (HarperOne), will visit The View and Live with Kelly and Ryan today.

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