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Awards & Book News

The National Book Awards longlist for translated literature is announced. The longlists for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry will be announced later today and tomorrow. Publishers Weekly has coverage, as does Publishing Perspectives.

Finalists are announced for the Writers’ Trust of Canada’s Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQIA+ emerging writers. CBC has the news.

The Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation announces the finalists for its annual awards. Kirkus reports.

“The big Elon Musk biography asks all the wrong questions,” says Vox of Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson (S. & S.).

Debut novel by Millie Bobby Brown (Nineteen Steps [Morrow]) reignites social media debate over ghostwritten celebrity books, The Guardian reports.

New Title Best Sellers

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

Fiction

Holly by Stephen King (Scribner) takes No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Things We Left Behind by Lucy Score (Bloom: Sourcebooks) brings in No. 2 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Payback in Death by J.D. Robb (St. Martin’s) earns No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 8 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

The Fraud by Zadie Smith (Penguin Pr.; LJ starred review) snatches No. 4 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list and No. 8 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger (Atria) finds No. 5 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 10 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Tom Clancy: Weapons Grade by Don Bentley (Putnam) shoots to No. 11 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

The Longmire Defense by Craig Johnson (Viking) defends No. 12 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Look Out for the Little Guy! by Scott Lang, with Rob Kutner (Hyperion Avenue), looks out from No. 12 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list and No. 13 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Amazing Grace Adams by Fran Littlewood (Holt) amazes at No. 14 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

The Long Game by Elena Armas (Atria; LJ starred review) scores No. 14 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Nonfiction

Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments by Joe Posnanski (Dutton; LJ starred review) steals No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century’s Greatest Dilemma by Mustafa Suleyman, with Michael Bhaskar (Crown), sweeps to No. 5 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden’s White House and the Struggle for America’s Future by Franklin Foer (Penguin Pr.) grabs No. 6 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Sure, I’ll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest To Belong Anywhere by Maria Bamford (Gallery) comes out at No. 8 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Talking to My Angels by Melissa Etheridge (Harper Wave) flies to No. 9 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy: And the Path to a Shared American Future by Robert P. Jones (S. & S.) takes No. 11 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Up Home: One Girl’s Journey by Ruth J. Simmons (Random) journeys to No. 13 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Reviews

NYT reviews 50 Years of Ms.: The Best of the Pathfinding Magazine That Ignited a Revolution, ed. by Katherine Spillar (Knopf): “50 Years of Ms. has been edited and curated so that the magazine is painted in the best possible light. As such, any of its missteps appear few and far between, though that was hardly the case in reality”; and Beyond the Door of No Return by David Diop, tr. by Sam Taylor (Farrar): “A hypnotic, powerful historical novel in which stories nest within one another like dolls.”

Washington Post reviews North Woods by Daniel Mason (Random; LJ starred review): “By the time ghosts start gathering in…North Woods, it’s too late to flee. You’re already rooted to this haunting, haunted novel about a homestead in western Massachusetts”; The Wolves of Eternity by Karl Ove Knausgaard, tr. by Martin Aitken (Penguin Pr.): “The book is a literary hybrid of the neurotic mundane realism that made Knausgaard famous and something more fiendish: strange happenings in the woods, reanimated corpses, a world bewitched”; The Student: A Short History by Michael Roth (Yale Univ.): “In this race through eons, a key tension emerges: Is being a student about acquiring a finite set of skills, or is there something deeper going on?”; The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden’s White House and the Struggle for America’s Future by Franklin Foer (Penguin Pr.): “Although the book is brimming with novelistic details that Foer collected as he interviewed insiders behind the scenes, there are no especially urgent revelations.” There are also short reviews of four fantasy novels and four memoirs.

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

Briefly Noted

EW shares “the 41 new fall books we’re most excited to read.”

Tor.com lists “Five SF Classics About Powerful Aliens and Puny Humans” and “Five SFF Captains I Would Follow to Hell and Back.”

CrimeReads identifies cozy mysteries with furry sidekicks, crime novels set in Las Vegas, and mysteries featuring detectives who garden.

Seattle Times recommends four new crime novels.

Electric Lit has “9 Books With Fabulist Worlds That Push Boundaries.”

LA Times interviews David Diop, author of Beyond the Door of No Return, tr. by Sam Taylor (Farrar), which was longlisted for the National Book Award in the category of translated fiction. 

LA Times also has a feature on Zakiya Dalila Harris, author of The Other Black Girl (Atria; LJ starred review). LitHub speaks with Harris as well, about bringing The Other Black Girl to TV.

Washington Post talks to London Hughes, author of the memoir Living My Best Life, Hun: Following Your Dreams Is No Joke (Grand Central; LJ starred review).

Kirkus has a Q&A with Angie Kim, author of GMA book club pick Happiness Falls (Hogarth). NYT’s “Inside the Best-Seller List” features Kim as well.

Hollywood Reporter speaks with novelist Maggie O’Farrell about Knopf’s rerelease of her backlist and the upcoming stage adaptation of Hamnet (Knopf).

In an interview with The Guardian, Sarah Ogilvie, The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary (Knopf), reveals the shocking stories behind the OED.

The Rumpus talks to Daphne Kalotay, author of The Archivists: Stories (TriQuarterly: Northwestern Univ.).

Salon has an interview with Franklin Foer, author of The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden’s White House and the Struggle for America’s Future (Penguin Pr.).

Vogue chats with Marisa Meltzer, author of Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss’s Glossier (Atria/One Signal).

Christine Blasey Ford will write a memoir, One Way Back, due out from St. Martin’s on March 19, 2024. Kirkus shares the news.

Bachelorette star Hannah Brown signs two-book deal for romance novels; the first, Mistakes We Never Made, is set to come out on May 7, 2024, from Forever: Grand Central. Variety has the news.

Publishers Weekly shares the religion nonfiction and fiction best sellers for August.

British poet/novelist Tobias Hill has died at age 53; The Bookseller has an obituary.

Authors on Air

LitHub’s Keen On podcast speaks with Rachel Abrams, coauthor of Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy (Penguin Pr.).

Today, Franklin Foer, The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden’s White House and the Struggle for America’s Future (Penguin Pr.), will appear on NPR’s Fresh Air.

Tomorrow, the Today Show will feature Millie Bobby Brown, Nineteen Steps (Morrow).

Shelf Awareness has the lineup for C-SPAN 2’s Book TV this weekend.

Tor.com shares the trailer for Dark Harvest, based on the book by Norman Partridge.

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