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Awards & Book News

The National Book Foundation announces its 5 Under 35 honorees: Stacie Shannon Denetsosie, Megan Howell, Maggie Millner, Alexander Sammartino, and Jemimah Wei. Vulture has coverage.

Nicola Griffith, author of Menewood (MCD), wins the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association’s Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award.

The finalists are revealed for the Al & Eurithe Purdy Poetry Prize for Canadian poets who have published five or more books, CBC reports.

Reese Witherspoon’s April book club pick is All That Life Can Afford by Emily Everett (Putnam), Kirkus reports.

New Title Bestsellers

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

Fiction

Summer in the City by Alex Aster (Morrow) breezes to No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

Nobody’s Fool by Harlan Coben (Grand Central) finds No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

Elphie: A Wicked Childhood by Gregory Maguire (Morrow) conjures No. 4 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

Lethal Prey by John Sandford (Putnam) tracks down No. 5 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

God of War by Rina Kent (Bloom) battles its way to No. 5 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Slaying the Vampire Conqueror by Carissa Broadbent (Bramble) conquers No. 9 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert by Bob the Drag Queen (Gallery) sings at No. 15 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

Nonfiction

How To Menopause: Take Charge of Your Health, Reclaim Your Life, and Feel Even Better Than Before by Tamsen Fadal (Balance) claims No. 4 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

When the Going Was Good: An Editor’s Adventures During the Last Golden Age of Magazines by Graydon Carter, with James Fox (Penguin Pr.) publishes at No. 5 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

The Echo Machine: How Right-Wing Extremism Created a Post-Truth America by David Pakman (Beacon) resounds at No. 6 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

The Stargazer: Unleashing the Brilliance of Building Brighter Teams by Katie P. Desiderio & Michael G. Frino (Wiley) shines at No. 6 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Mad House: How Donald Trump, MAGA Mean Girls, a Former Used Car Salesman, a Florida Nepo Baby, and a Man with Rats in His Walls Broke Congress by Annie Karni & Luke Broadwater (Random) wins No. 9 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Wild Courage: Go After What You Want and Get It by Jenny Wood (Portfolio) gets No. 12 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America by Elie Mystal (New Pr.) holds No. 13 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Reviews

NYT reviews Flesh by David Szalay (Scribner): “To read this cool, remote book—among its primary subjects is male alienation—is to feel you are eyeballing the action on a bank of surveillance cameras. There will be no conspiratorial glances at those cameras, no metafictional winks”; and two books about cults: The Instability of Truth: Brainwashing, Mind Control and Hyper-Persuasion by Rebecca Lemov (Norton) and Blazing Eye Sees All: Love Has Won, False Prophets and the Fever Dream of the American New Age by Leah Sottile (Grand Central): “Taken together, the books have a bit of a Goldilocks problem: Lemov’s is thoughtful, well supported and perhaps unavoidably academic. Sottile’s is easily the more accessible effort, full of wild anecdotes about lost continents and blue-skinned gurus; it can also be heedlessly loosey-goosey, light on corroborating facts and critical distance from its troubled subjects.”

Washington Post reviews Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House by Jonathan Allen & Amie Parnes (Morrow): “We now have what Allen and Parnes refer to as the ‘horse-race perspective’—the only perspective worthy of their attention. Up-to-the-minute profanity notwithstanding, theirs is the most airless of cloisters, a political world in which there are only winners and losers. A book purporting to tell us something fresh and new about a historic election, in which some presumably major issues were at stake, instead gives us the same stale morsels as our internet news feeds”

The Guardian reviews Story of a Murder: The Wives, the Mistress, and Dr. Crippen by Hallie Rubenhold (Dutton): “The Crippen case has been written about countless times before, but Rubenhold’s intention here is to divert attention away from the doctor (who, strictly speaking, was less a bona fide doctor than a pedlar of quack nostrums masquerading as homeopathic remedies) and put Cora back at the centre of the story”; and The Strange Case of Jane O by Karen Thompson Walker (Random): “It would be unfair to spoil the reader’s pleasure by giving away any more of the plot or its rationale. Suffice it to say that there is a rationale, and that the manner in which the dots are eventually joined proves both moving and unexpected.”

LA Times reviews My Documents by Kevin Nguyen (One World): “Steeped in history and drawn from our terrifying present, it’s as much a coming-of-age story for its characters as it is for the United States, a country that is forever losing its innocence. The brutal phoenix of American history remains constant in Nguyen’s novel. Stuck in a vicious cycle of innocence lost, regained, then lost again, American history reveals itself to be a series of stories told by individuals dependent on inconsistent and unreliable sources.”

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

Briefly Noted

Actor Tim Curry has written a memoir; Vagabond is due out from Grand Central on Oct. 7, People reports.

NYT interviews Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus, whose memoir, Fahrenheit-182 (written with Dan Ozzi), is due out from Dey Street on Apr. 8.

USA Today talks to Maria Shriver, author of I Am Maria: My Reflections and Poems on Heartbreak, Healing, and Finding Your Way Home (The Open Field).

Reginald Dwayne Betts, author of Doggerel: Poems (Norton), answers NYT’s “By the Book” questionnaire.

Reactor rounds up five SFF books with unconventional road trips.

Authors on Air

Today, GMA hosts Danielle Steel, author of Far from Home (Delacorte); the Today Show talks to Jennifer Weiner, author of The Griffin Sisters’ Greatest Hits (Morrow); and The Kelly Clarkson Show speaks with Tess Sanchez, author of We’ve Decided To Go in a Different Direction: Essays (Gallery).

The new episode of Kirkus’s Fully Booked podcast has its editors weighing in on the best books of the last 25 years.

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

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