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Awards, Best of the Year Lists & Book News

The longlist for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction is announced. The Bookseller has coverage.

Tor.com releases its Reviewers’ Choice list of the best books of 2023.

Vanity Fair shares its 20 favorite books of 2023.

The Millions publishes more of its annual Year in Reading series, with lists from McKenzie Wark, Ryan Ruby, and Jennifer Croft.

CrimeReads selects the best espionage novels of 2023.

Poets&Writers publishes its “Nineteenth Annual Look at Debut Poets.”

New Title Best Sellers

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

Fiction

Chainsaw Man, Vol. 13 by Tatsuki Fujimoto (VIZ Media) hacks its way to No. 4 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

The Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent (Bramble; LJ starred review) slithers to No. 9 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Nonfiction

Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning by Liz Cheney (Little, Brown) climbs to No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list and on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism by Tim Alberta (Harper) soars to No. 6 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Reviews

Washington Post reviews How To Be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty and Female Creativity by Jill Burke (Pegasus; LJ starred review): “If How To Be a Renaissance Woman never quite coalesces into a continuous narrative or mounts a clear argument, the disjointed anecdotes that make it up are nonetheless delightful and surprising”; and Penning Poison: A History of Anonymous Letters by Emily Cockayne (Oxford Univ.): “At its most readable when Cockayne plays detective, dwelling on a single case, filling us in on the background, the characters, the investigation and trying to understand what drove the letter writer”; plus a dual review of A Book of Noises: Notes on the Auraculous by Caspar Henderson (Univ. of Chicago) and Listen: On Music, Sound, and Us by Michel Faber (Hanover Square: Harlequin); and short reviews of crime novels by Jaime Lynn Hendricks, Jesse Q. Sutanto, and Val McDermid.

Briefly Noted

Tiffany Haddish will “tell all” in her new book, I Curse You with Joy, out from Diversion in May 2024, People reports.

Pope Francis’s new book, Life: My Story Through History, tr. by Audrey Botsford (HarperOne), bears his hands-on touch, from the cover choice to marketing goals, Publishers Weekly reports.

Joe Sacco’s 2001 graphic nonfiction book Palestine (Fantagraphics) is getting a rush reprint due to increased demand, The Guardian reports.

NYT’s “Inside the Best-Seller List” covers The Cookie That Changed My Life by Nancy Silverton and Carolyn Carreño (Knopf; LJ starred review).

Publishers Weekly publishes its Religion and spirituality books preview for January 2024.

The Elissas (Legacy Lit; LJ starred review) author Samantha Leach shares the five best books she read in 2023, on GMA.

Kate Christensen, Welcome Home, Stranger (Harper), answers NYT’s “By the Book” questionnaire.

Rachel Zucker, The Poetics of Wrongness (Wave Bks.), takes LitHub’s “Annotated Nightstand” survey.

Hollywood Reporter interviews poet Cleo Wade, author of Remember Love: Words for Tender Times (Harmony).

CrimeReads hosts a conversation, about “the seeds of a pharmaceutical thriller,” between Jyoti Guptara and Thomas Locke, authors of Roulette (Down and Out Bks.).

NYT speaks with Philip Norman, author of George Harrison: The Reluctant Beatle (Scribner).

NYT’s “Critic’s Notebook” looks at “Glorious Memoirs by the Very Rich,” new and old.

LitHub rounds up the award-winning novels of 2023, lists notable literary deaths in 2023, and publishes “A Reading List of NYC Books That Capture the City’s Many Sides.”

Tor.com explains “Where To Start With the Work of David Drake” and lists five SFF books set in the American South.

The Atlantic selects “Seven Books That Will Make You Rethink Your Relationship to Nature.”

LA Times publishes an essay by David L. Ulin, author of Thirteen Question Method (Outpost): “I wanted to write a book of L.A. noir for decades. But first, I had to live it.”

In CrimeReads, Jillian Cantor, author of The Fiction Writer (Park Row), writes “What Makes a Novel Unique? On Retellings and Plagiarism.”

“Ted Morgan, acclaimed author with a vivid past, dies at 91.” Washington Post has an obituary.

Authors on Air

NPR’s Fresh Air speaks with poet Christian Wiman, author of Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair (Farrar).

Tracy K. Smith, To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul (Knopf), is interviewed on LitHub’s Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast, and Sarah Blakley-Cartwright, Alice Sadie Celine (S. & S.), is interviewed on The Maris Review.

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

Amazon MGM Studios will develop Lucy Score’s best-selling romance Things We Never Got Over for TV, Deadline reports.

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