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Awards & Book News

Rodrigo Fresán’s Melvill, tr. by Will Vanderhyden (Open Letter), wins the Republic of Consciousness Prize, United States and Canada.

NYT releases its spring books preview, including 24 novels and 21 nonfiction titles.

The nonprofit We Need Diverse Books announces its inaugural reading day, April 3; USA Today has the news.

New Title Bestsellers

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

Fiction

Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall (S. & S.) holds No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Bestsellers list.

Far From Home by Danielle Steel (Delacorte) reaches No. 4 on the NYT Hardcover Bestsellers list.

Wild Side by Elsie Silver (Bloom) grabs No. 4 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Blood Moon by Sandra Brown (Grand Central) rises at No. 5 on the NYT Hardcover Bestsellers list.

The Ragpicker King by Cassandra Clare (Del Rey) finds No. 6 on the NYT Hardcover Bestsellers list.

Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Knopf) seizes No. 10 on the NYT Hardcover Bestsellers list.

Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy (Flatiron; LJ starred review) rolls in at No. 14 on the NYT Hardcover Bestsellers list.

Nonfiction

The Tears of Things: Prophetic Wisdom for an Age of Outrage by Richard Rohr (Convergent) attains No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Do This Before Bed: Simple 5-Minute Practices That Will Change Your Life by Oliver Niño (Hay House) achieves No. 2 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Lululemon and the Future of Technical Apparel by Chip Wilson (Time Is Tight Communications) wins No. 3 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list and No. 11 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list, though some retailers report receiving bulk orders.

The Art of the SNL Portrait by Mary Ellen Matthews (Abrams) captures No. 5 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

The Last Manager: How Earl Weaver Tricked, Tormented, and Reinvented Baseball by John W. Miller (Avid Reader) rounds home plate at No. 7 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Layered Leadership: Drive Double-Digit Growth and Dominate Your Competition with Creative Strategies and Execution by Lawrence R. Armstrong (BenBella) dominates No. 8 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Raising Hare: A Memoir by Chloe Dalton (Pantheon) hops to No. 10 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Saving Five: A Memoir of Hope by Amanda Nguyen (AUWA) debuts at No. 12 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Say Everything by Ione Skye (Gallery) climbs to No. 13 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

I’m That Girl: Living the Power of My Dreams by Jordan Chiles with Felice Laverne (Harper Influence) leaps to No. 14 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Reviews

NYT reviews Hypochondria by Will Rees (Coach House): “Here Rees’s writing is at its most acute: in articulating the myopia that has plagued the human brain since its development—particularly those of people with too much time for idle thinking”; and two memoirs by women of the “bad boy chef era”: Care and Feeding: A Memoir by Laurie Woolever (Ecco) and Cellar Rat: My Life in the Restaurant Underbelly by Hannah Selinger (Little, Brown).

LA Times reviews Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America by Clay Risen (Scribner): “For 480 detailed, tension-packed pages, Risen lays out that line without stepping over it, allowing the past to become prologue. He trusts the reader to make the connections between then and now, and he doesn’t stray from the task at hand, or the specifics of time, place, conflict and culture that led to a protracted period of national shame.”

The Guardian reviews The Age of Diagnosis: How Our Obsession with Medical Labels Is Making Us Sicker by Suzanne O’Sullivan (Thesis): “Thankfully, Suzanne O’Sullivan is here to help, and her voice deserves amplification. Thirty years a doctor, 25 a neurologist, her excellent books occupy a space once dominated by Oliver Sacks, where individual tales of disease and distress reveal broader truths about science, medicine and people.”

Vulture reviews Stag Dance: A Novel & Stories by Torrey Peters (Random): “Across Stag Dance, Peters refuses to play into the modern, overly determined motivations of contemporary fiction, instead harnessing a technique she calls ‘strategic opacity’ as a way to access characterization not dependent on Psychology 101. The term originally refers to a lack of obvious motive in certain Shakespearean characters like Hamlet and Iago. Some actions cannot be reduced to simplistic internal incentives.”

LitHub has “5 Book Reviews You Need To Read This Week.”

Briefly Noted

A behind-the-scenes book about the 1984 movie Spinal Tap is in the works; A Fine Line Between Stupid and Clever: The Story of Spinal Tap is due out from Gallery on Sept. 16, People reports.

Poet Mónica de la Torre, author of Pause the Document (Nightboat), shares her “Annotated Nightstand” with LitHub.

Singer Tori Amos answers NYT’s “By the Book” questionnaire.

LitHub interviews Karen Russell, author of The Antidote (Knopf; LJ starred review).

Vulture discusses the trend of the divorce memoir.

LitHub recommends “5 Essential Books For Better Understanding African Folklore.”

Chris Moore, cover illustrator for classic sci-fi books, has died at 77; NYT has an obituary.

Authors on Air

Curtis Sittenfeld, author of Show Don’t Tell: Stories (Random; LJ starred review), speaks with LitHub’s Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast.

Black Mountain Institute and LitHub’s Thresholds podcast talks to Carvell Wallace, author of Another Word for Love: A Memoir (MCD).

Kirkus’s Fully Booked podcast interviews Karen Russell, author of The Antidote (Knopf; LJ starred review).

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of Dream Count (Knopf), visits Seth Meyers; Kirkus has the summary and video.

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