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Awards & Buzzy Books News

CrimeReads lists the best crime novels of the year (so far).

The Society of Authors’ Awards 2023 are announced. The Bookseller has details.

NYT previews 12 new books for July. 

The Verge ranks the greatest tech books of all time.

Buzz Books 2023: Romance from Publishers Lunch is available from Edelweiss and Netgalley. 

ABA Launches #TheFutureIsIndie Campaign To Counter Prime Day. 

Folger Shakespeare Library director Michael Witmore will step down by next summer. The Washington Post reports. 

New Title Bestsellers

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

Fiction

Zero Days by Ruth Ware (Gallery; LJ starred review) circles No. 4 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 6 on the USA Today Best-selling book list. 

The Only One Left by Riley Sager (Dutton) debuts at No. 6 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list. 

Nonfiction

Sixty-One : Life Lessons from Papa, On and Off the Court by Chris Paul, written with Michael Wilbon (St. Martin’s) crashes No. 5 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Reviews

The Washington Post reviews Thunderclap : A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death by Laura Cumming (Scribner): “Thunderclap is an autobiography in images that doubles as a tour through the art of the Dutch Golden Age, with the aid of lush reproductions.”; Directions to Myself : A Memoir of Four Years by Heidi Julavits (Hogarth): “In addition to the four years of her son’s life, Julavits uses her remote house in Maine and a book called A Cruising Guide to the New England Coast as maps to her memory.”

The Guardian reviews What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds by Jennifer Ackerman (Penguin Pr.): “A charming and deeply researched study of the science and cultural significance of this most mysterious of birds.”

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

WSJ shares the 10 best reviews of June. 

Briefly Noted

People previews a new photography book, Being Bardot : Photographed by Douglas Kirkland and Terry O'Neill ed. by Iconic Images (Acc Art Books). FoxNews also features the book, which published yesterday. 

LA Times features the new book, California, a Slave State : The Forgotten History of Slavery and Slave Revolts in California by Jean Pfaelzer (Yale Univ. Pr.). 

Slate interviews Mark O'Connell about his new true crime book, A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder (Doubleday).

Jada Pinkett Smith previews her forthcoming memoir Worthy (Dey Street), at People. The book will publish October 17th. 

Vogue talks with Mattie Lubchansky about their new graphic novel, Boys Weekend (Pantheon).

Emily Wilson, whose new translation of Homer’s The Iliad arrives from Norton in September, writes about “How Different Translators Reveal the ‘Iliad’ Anew, ” at NYT. 

NYT also features a roundtable of translators in conversation about “the joys and challenges of the job.”

Author and translator Jennifer Croft answers NYT’s “By the Book” questionnaire.

The Washington Post digs into “The racist literary origins of Indiana Jones.”

Dina Kraft chats with NYT’s “Inside the Best-Seller List” about her collaboration with the late Hannah Pick Goslar on the book, My Friend Anne Frank: The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds (Little, Brown).

Tia Williams, whose novel The Perfect Find (Grand Central) was recently adapted by Netflix, recommends 5 romance books at Bustle.

Vanity Fair sizes up new competition for the self-publishing platform Substack. 

The Atlantic recommends “What to Read When You Want to Reimagine Family.”

Vox examines the queer appeal of Arnold Lobel’s Frog and Toad. 

LA Times offers an appreciation for pioneering poet Amy Uyematsu, who died last week at the age of 75.

Authors On Air

Ana Menéndez talks about her new novel, The Apartment (Counterpoint), with NPR’s All Things Considered. 

Henry Hoke and his editor Jackson Howard discuss Open Throat (MCD), on B&N’s Poured Over podcast. 

Colleen Hoover appears on Today in conversation with Jenna Bush Hager. 

LA Times reviews the literary documentary, In the Company of Rose, about Rose Styron, and suggests her new memoir, Beyond This Harbor: Adventurous Tales of the Heart (Knopf). 

NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour recommends mysteries and thrillers. 

T&C reports on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's partnership with Netflix. 

CSPAN’s Book TV announces upcoming schedule of programming.

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