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Awards & Book News

Winners are announced for the Publishing Triangle Awards, honoring the best LGBTQIA+ books published in 2023; Shelf Awareness has the full list.

Of Cattle and Men by Ana Paula Maia, tr. by Zoë Perry (Charco Pr.), wins the UK Republic of Consciousness Prize for small press books, The Guardian reports.

The shortlist for the Donner Prize, recognizing the best public policy book by a Canadian, is announced.

“PEN Awards Facing Disaster After Many Withdraw in Solidarity With Palestine,” Vulture reports. LitHub also has coverage.

New Title Bestsellers

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

Fiction

The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo (Flatiron; LJ starred review) gets acquainted with No. 1 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list and No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

Toxic Prey by John Sandford (Putnam; LJ starred review) takes down No. 4 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list and No. 6 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

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

The Hemlock Queen by Hannah Whitten (Orbit) reigns over No. 14 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

Daughter of Mine by Megan Miranda (S. & S./Marysue Rucci; LJ starred review) takes No. 15 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

Nonfiction

Somehow: Thoughts on Love (Riverhead) meditates on No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list and No. 8 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook by Hampton Sides (Doubleday) sails to No. 4 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality by Amanda Montell (Atria: One Signal) reaches No. 6 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Red Helicopter, a Parable for Our Times: Lead Change with Kindness (Plus a Little Math) by James Rhee (HarperOne) flies to No. 7 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading by James Patterson, written with Matt Eversmann (Little, Brown), sells No. 9 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Treasures in the Dark: 90 Reflections on Finding Bright Hope Hidden in the Hurting by Katherine Wolf (Thomas Nelson) finds No. 11 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

All You Need Is Love: An Oral History of the Beatles by Peter Brown & Steven Gaines (St. Martin’s) sings at No. 14 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Reviews

Washington Post reviews The Spoiled Heart by Sunjeev Sahota (Viking): “The story explores identity politics, that complicated intersection of race, gender and sexual orientation that, depending on your point of view, promotes equity or sanctifies discrimination. It’s the kind of treacherous novel that Philip Roth might have written”; What Kingdom by Fine Grabol, tr. by Martin Aitken (Archipelago): “A novel deeply versed in the experience and terminology of psychiatric treatment, without taking on the tenor of therapy. In What Kingdom, a diagnosis is only one part of the explanation, and it certainly is not a cure”; Coming Out Republican: A History of the Gay Right by Neil J. Young (Univ. of Chicago): “At its best when using profiles of individual men to depict the eras in which they lived”; and two new volumes about Lord Byron: Byron: A Life in Ten Letters by Andrew Stauffer (Cambridge Univ.) and Byron’s Travels: Poems, Letters, and Journals, ed. by Fiona Stafford (Everyman’s Library).

NYT reviews The Sorrow Apartments by Andrea Cohen (Four Way): “Cohen’s signature maneuver is a kind of twist or flourish that shifts a poem away from the (usually sentimental) ending that seems to be coming.”

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

Briefly Noted

NYT speaks with Marjane Satrapi about her new graphic novel about the women’s movement in Iran, Woman, Life, Freedom, tr. by Uma Dimitrijevic (Seven Stories).

The Guardian talks to Hanif Kureishi, whose 1991 novel The Buddha of Suburbia is coming to the stage in London.

Emily Henry, author of Funny Story (Berkley; LJ starred review), answers NYT’s “By the Book” questionnaire.

NYT’s “Inside the Best-Seller List” features She’s Not Sorry by Mary Kubica (Park Row).

CrimeReads calls 2024 the “year of literary true crime.”

NPR recommends “5 new mysteries and thrillers for your nightstand this spring.”

NYT has a video round-up of “4 Books to Make You Fall in Love With Poetry.”

NYT goes inside the book conservation lab at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Anthropologist Barbara Jones, author of Bike Lust: Harleys, Women, and American Society, has died at age 89; NYT has an obituary.

Authors on Air

NPR’s Fresh Air talks to death doula Alua Arthur, author of Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End (Mariner). She is also interviewed in Kirkus.

LitHub’s Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast talks to Jen Silverman, author of There’s Going To Be Trouble (Random).

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

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