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Awards & Book News

Winners of the Christianity Today Book Awards are announced.

Winners of the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses Firecracker Awards are announced; Publishing Perspectives has coverage.

National Book Awards longlists will be announced between September 10 and 13, finalists will be announced October 1, and winners will be announced November 20.

Bookshop.org launches a buy-back scheme for second-hand books that will pay royalties to the authors, The Guardian reports.

Penguin Random House UK’s new book-vending machine at a Scotland school gives students access to titles from Penguin’s “Lit in Colour” reading lists; Publishing Perspectives has coverage.

New Title Bestsellers

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

Fiction

By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult (Ballantine) claims No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list and No. 3 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Spirit Crossing by William Kent Krueger (Atria) crosses to No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

Jujutsu Kaisen, Vol. 23 by Gege Akutami (VIZ Media) reaches No. 4 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

This Is Why We Lied by Karin Slaughter (Morrow) grabs No. 8 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

Tom Clancy Shadow State by M.P. Woodward (Putnam) achieves No. 10 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

Nonfiction

Imminent: Inside the Pentagon’s Hunt for UFOs by Luis Elizondo (Morrow) tracks down No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list and No. 10 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Out of the Darkness: The Mystery of Aaron Rodgers by Ian O’Connor (Mariner) rushes to No. 5 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Fierce Resilience: Combatting Workplace Stress One Conversation at a Time by Edward Beltran (Berrett-Koehler) thrives at No. 6 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

The Devil at His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty by Valerie Bauerlein (Ballantine) rises to No. 9 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Obitchuary: The Big Hot Book of Death by Spencer Henry & Madison Reyes (Plume) awakens at No. 11 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Love Triangle: How Trigonometry Shapes the World by Matt Parker (Riverhead) ascends to No. 14 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Reviews

NPR reviews Einstein in Kafkaland: How Albert Fell Down the Rabbit Hole and Came Up With the Universe by Ken Krimstein (Bloomsbury): “Krimstein playfully explores the possibilities, building, with footnotes, on a thorough archive of letters, diaries, and other research. The result, a thought-provoking work made up of comics suffused in a gentle mix of aquamarine watercolors, is equal parts joyful and ruminative.”

Washington Post reviews Death at the Sign of the Rook by Kate Atkinson (Doubleday): “They are all wonderfully depicted characters, and their life histories sparkle with inspired bon mots and acerbic asides, but increasingly, they also seem to be substitutions for plot.”

NYT reviews Madwoman by Chelsea Bieker (Little, Brown): “Bieker’s writing is raw, breathlessly confessional, brilliant in its depiction of the long shadows cast by domestic violence, the constant tension carried by survivors. However, her true secret weapon is humor”; and If Only by Vigdis Hjorth, tr. by Charlotte Barslund (Verso Fiction): “In places, If Only reminded me of certain autobiographical books by Annie Ernaux, or Catherine Millet’s memoir The Sexual Life of Catherine M. That is, pre-#MeToo narratives in which obvious misogyny and abuse…sit uneasily alongside female characters’ erotic pursuit of some fundamentally enlightening void.”

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

Briefly Noted

Washington Post talks to Katherine Bucknell, author of Christopher Isherwood Inside Out (Farrar).

Nicholas Meyer and Leslie Klinger discuss Meyer’s new Sherlock Holmes and the Telegram from Hell (The Mysterious Pr.) in CrimeReads.

Publishers Weekly interviews Ann Regan, who is retiring as editor in chief of the Minnesota Historical Society Press.

Publishers Weekly also speaks with Mellow Brown, DJ Ben Ha Meen, Tom Mandrake, and Janie Hendrix, creators of the graphic novel Jimi Hendrix: Purple Haze (Titan).

CrimeReads rounds up psychological suspense novels that are coming-of-age stories and eight gothic mysteries set on the British Isles.

Reactor gathers “Seven Speculative Stories About Preserving History and Culture.”

The Guardian selects five of the best books about trees.

Authors on Air

MGM+ is creating a thriller series based on Stephen King’s The Institute; Deadline has the news.

Apple TV+ has an upcoming thriller series based on Down Cemetery Road by Mick Herron, Deadline reports.

Bookends with Mattea Roach, CBC’s new author interview show, will premiere this fall.

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

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