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The Center for Fiction 2022 First Novel Prize shortlist is announced.

Ann Hui wins the 2022 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Nonfiction for her book Chop Suey Nation: The Legion Cafe and Other Stories from Canada’s Chinese Restaurants (Douglas & McIntyre). 

The 2022 Dayton Literary Peace Prize winners are announced: Honorée Fanonne Jeffers (The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois; Harper: HarperCollins) wins for fiction, and Clint Smith (How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America; Little, Brown) wins for nonfiction.

Lit Hub details the writers named in “Time’s list of the year’s 100 most influential people.”

NYT highlights newly published books this week and “15 New Books Coming in October.”

Tor.com shares upcoming “Speculative Fiction for September and October 2022.”

New Title Bestsellers

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

Fiction

Dreamland by Nicholas Sparks (Random) begins at No. 1 on both the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

The Bullet That Missed: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery by Richard Osman (Pamela Dorman: Viking) strikes No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 7 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout (Random) swims to No. 5 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Maybe Now by Colleen Hoover (Atria) starts at No. 9 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Less Is Lost by Andrew Sean Greer (Little, Brown) gains No. 10 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Spy x Family, Vol. 8 by Tatsuya Endo (VIZ Media) looks at No. 12 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

State of the Union by Marie Force (HTJB, Inc.) debuts at No. 14 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Nonfiction

The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017–2021 by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser (Doubleday) comes to No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list and No. 6 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization by Neil deGrasse Tyson (Holt; LJ starred review) shines at No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle To Save America by Dahlia Lithwick (Penguin Pr.) rules No. 13 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

The Biggest Idea in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion by Sean Carroll (Dutton) clocks No. 15 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Taking Back Trump’s America by Peter Navarro (Bombardier) starts at No. 15 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

USA Today explores the best seller list this week.

Reviews

NYT reviews Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America by Maggie Haberman (Penguin Pr.): “a book more notable for the quality of its observations about Trump’s character than for its newsbreaks. It will be a primary source about the most vexing president in American history for years to come.” There are also three short reviews of romances and a shortlist of debut novels.

The Washington Post reviews Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle To Save America by Dahlia Lithwick (Penguin Pr.): “In the midst of one of the darkest times in modern American history, the book essentially says, women stepped up, used the law to fight back and saved our collective bacon.” Also, Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships by Nina Totenberg (S. & S.): “acknowledges the conflicts of interest that can arise when journalists get too cozy with the people they cover.”

Locus Magazine reviews The Silverberg Business by Robert Freeman Wexler (Small Beer): “a truly strange and unique novel that manages to touch upon a surprising number of issues while expanding the stakes to almost epic scope in its final chapters, which by the end even manage to invoke the deadliest hurricane ever to strike the US.”

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

CrimeReads shares “The Best Reviewed Crime Books of the Month.”

Briefly Noted

People shares an exclusive excerpt from Down and Out in Paradise: The Life of Anthony Bourdain by Charles Leerhsen (S. & S.). Fox News also covers news surrounding this book.

Lit Hub has a cover reveal for How Not To Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind by Clancy Martin (Pantheon). 

Igiaba Scego, author of The Color Line (Other Pr.), recommends books for readers interested in Rome.

The Guardian provides a guided-reading list for readers new to the work of Langston Hughes.

Fox News covers a report on the banning of Girls Who Code by Reshma Saujani (Puffin). 

NYT Inside the Best-Seller List speaks to Javier Zamora about the recording the audiobook for Solito (Hogarth). 

Fredrik Backman, author of The Winners (Atria), answers the NYT “By the Book” questionnaire.

Lit Hub features “Indian Writers on 75 Years of Independence and Partition.” Also, booklists focusing on “fictional diaries" and stories about ballet.

CrimeReads shares a “list of psychological thrillers with gobsmacking twists.”

Authors On Air

Ingrid Rojas Contreras, The Man Who Could Move Clouds (Doubleday), talks about “the accident that left her with amnesia, grappling with the decision to write about her family, and the importance of offering healing” on the Thresholds podcast.

NPR’s Fresh Air revisits an interview with Hilary Mantel originally broadcasted in 2012.

Jasmine Guillory, author of Drunk on Love (Berkley; LJ starred review), discusses “why Rom-Coms are exactly what we need right now” on The Maris Review podcast.

Audible has released “Act III of their audiobook adaptation” of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman, Entertainment Weekly reports.

Variety explores the differences between Joyce Carol Oates’s novel about Marilyn Monroe, Blonde (Ecco), and its new film adaptation. Also, a second season is announceed for AMC’s Interview with the Vampire, based on the 1976 novel by Anne Rice.

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