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Awards & Book News

Imani Perry’s South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation wins the inaugural Inside Literary Prize, which is judged by incarcerated people. Publishers Weekly has the news.

Los Angeles Public Library is launching the Bureau of Nooks and Crannies, a sort of scavenger hunt that will inspire guests to view their library in a new way. LA Times has coverage.

A Liverpool library was burned by far-right rioters in England on Saturday and is now raising funds to rebuild, The Guardian reports.

New Title Best Sellers

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

Fiction

The Wedding People by Alison Espach (Holt; LJ starred review) snares No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

 Hard To Kill  by James Patterson & Mike Lupica (Little, Brown) slays No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list and No. 14 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Slow Dance by Rainbow Rowell (Morrow) waltzes to No. 9 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list and No. 13 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

What Have You Done? by Shari Lapena (Pamela Dorman: Viking; LJ starred review) hits No. 12 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

Nonfiction

All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way by Fred C. Trump III (Gallery) reaches No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Reviews

NYT reviews All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art by Orlando Whitfield (Pantheon): “In one sense, a story of how an unregulated market works”; and House of Bone and Rain by Gabino Iglesias (Mulholland; LJ starred review): “The book captures, in stunningly visceral detail, not only the havoc of a hurricane that left thousands dead, but also the everyday life of a vulnerable community before and after [Hurricane] Maria’s arrival, troubled by a crumbling infrastructure and by decades of governmental neglect.”

LA Times reviews Highway Thirteen: Stories by Fiona McFarlane (Farrar): “I had to resign myself to reading each story from beginning to end without leaving my chair. They are that gripping, though not in a thriller kind of way.”

Washington Post reviews An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work by Charlotte Shane (S. & S.): “In less than 200 pages, the book manages to be part autobiography, part anthropological investigation and part feminist tract—but centrally, it is a eulogy for Roger (not, of course, his real name), who was Shane’s client for nearly a decade”; The Axeman’s Carnival by Catherine Chidgey (Europa; LJ starred review): “Chidgey’s book is a gorgeous, sublime exploration of the natural world and the powerful, perhaps unbreakable bonds that can exist between its human and nonhuman inhabitants”; and Hum by Helen Phillips (S. & S./Marysue Rucci): “Phillips’s writing is perilously good and unsparingly perceptive as it probes at current concerns—climate change, ubiquitous advertising, personal privacy.”

LitHub gathers “5 book reviews you need to read this week.”

Briefly Noted

In LitHub, Helen Phillips, author of Hum (S. & S./Marysue Rucci), suggests other novels about the near future.

Brenda Wineapple, author of Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation (Random), answers NYT’s “By the Book” questionnaire.

Actor Sarah Michelle Gellar shares what she’s reading with People.

Reactor gathers all the new science fiction books arriving in August.

Kirkus recommends five new nonfiction books.

CrimeReads highlights epistolary crime fiction, five essential reads about cults, and LGBTQIA+ crime fiction late summer reads.

Authors on Air

NPR’s Fresh Air interviews Ala Stanford, author of Take Care of Them Like My Own: Faith, Fortitude, and a Surgeon’s Fight for Health Justice (S. & S.).

LitHub’s Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast talks to Jasmin Graham, author of Sharks Don’t Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist (Pantheon; LJ starred review).

Playwright Sonya Kelly joins the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast to discuss Jean-Dominique Bauby’s The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.

LitHub’s History of Literature podcast highlights A Strange Life: Selected Essays of Louisa May Alcott (Notting Hill Editions; LJ starred review), interviewing the volume’s editor, Liz Rosenberg.

Roxane Gay stopped by The Daily Show on Monday to discuss her new e-book, Stand Your Ground: A Black Feminist Reckoning With America’s Gun Problem (Everand Originals); Kirkus has a summary.

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

Michael Lewis’s The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story is being developed as a feature film, Deadline reports.

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