Want to get the latest book news delivered to your inbox each day? Sign up for our daily Book Pulse newsletter.

Awards & Book News

R.F. Kuang’s Yellowface (Morrow) and Katherine Rundell’s Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures (Doubleday) have won Britain’s Indie Book Awards.

Isabella Hammad’s Enter Ghost (Grove) wins the Royal Society of Literature Encore Award for best second novel.

Winners of Britain’s Society of Authors Awards are announced.

The shortlist for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize is released.

New Title Bestsellers

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

Fiction

Swan Song by Elin Hilderbrand (Little, Brown) sings at No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list and No. 2 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Not in Love by Ali Hazelwood (Berkley) grabs No. 4 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center (St. Martin’s) attracts No. 10 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay (Morrow; LJ starred review) scares up No. 13 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

Clete by James Lee Burke (Atlantic Monthly) takes No. 15 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

Nonfiction

The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir by Griffin Dunne (Penguin Pr.) receives No. 6 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Hip-Hop Is History by Questlove (AUWA) grooves to No. 9 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Just Add Water: My Swimming Life by Katie Ledecky (S. & S.) swims to No. 11 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Patton’s Prayer: A True Story of Courage, Faith, and Victory in World War II by Alex Kershaw (Dutton) wins No. 12 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Good Judgment: Making Better Business Decisions with the Science of Human Personality by Richard Davis (Harper Business) receives No. 13 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Roctogenarians: Late in Life Debuts, Comebacks, and Triumphs by Mo Rocca with Jonathan Greenberg (S. & S.) triumphs at No. 15 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Reviews

USA Today reviews Middle of the Night by Riley Sager (Dutton): “But even as the truths untangle and reveal themselves in Sager’s novel, many of the deeper questions about Ethan, his relationships and the losses from which he never really moved on will largely go unanswered here. Disappointing, but perhaps realistic as an exploration of trauma.”

NYT reviews Adventures in Volcanoland: What Volcanoes Tell Us About the World and Ourselves by Tamsin Mather (Hanover Square: Harlequin; LJ starred review): “Mather’s book is intended for readers like me: novices who wouldn’t know the difference between pumice and tephra if they both hit us on the head. At times, however, it reads like a textbook, its sentences burdened with encyclopedic digressions”; Caledonian Road by Andrew O’Hagan (Norton): “Its breadth (and length) rivals Eliot’s Middlemarch, its depiction of the underbelly of London life updates Dickens’s Bleak House, and its satirical delight in overreaching male folly nods to Martin Amis’s Money and Tom Wolfe’s Bonfire of the Vanities”; and two economics books: One Week To Change The World: An Oral History of the 1999 WTO Protests by DW Gibson (S. & S.) and How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain by Peter S. Goodman (Mariner).

Washington Post reviews Bear by Julia Phillips (Hogarth): “Bear may remind readers of Alice Hoffman’s fantasy-flecked novels, and Phillips sprinkles around the fairy dust liberally in some sections. But she’s actually working closer to the realm of Henry James’s Turn of the Screw”; All the Worst Humans: How I Made News for Dictators, Tycoons, and Politicians by Phil Elwood (Holt): “What makes Elwood’s story stand out from the typical Washington read is that his personal demons are so intertwined with his professional choices”; plus short reviews of the month’s best new science fiction and fantasy books.

LitHub recommends “5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week.”

Briefly Noted

Poets & Writers has 10 questions for Ananda Lima, author of Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil (Tor; LJ starred review).

Bob Eckstein, author and illustrator of Footnotes from the Most Fascinating Museums: Stories and Memorable Moments from People Who Love Museums (Princeton Architectural), discusses his guide to museums with NYT.

Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker (Viking), takes the LitHub questionnaire.

NYT talks to Amy Attas, author of Pets and the City: True Tales of a Manhattan House Call Veterinarian (Putnam).

LA Times gathers reading lists from five of the summer’s must-read mystery authors.

LitHub discusses Robert Olmstead’s memoir Stay Here with Me in honor of the reissue by Godine.

The Guardian selects five of the best books about math.

Reactor gathers a “backlist bonanza” of five underrated weird mysteries.

Therapist Sarah Mandel, author of Little Earthquakes: A Memoir (Harper), has died at age 42; NYT has an obituary.

Authors on Air

Nicolás Medina Mora, author of América del Norte (Soho), is interviewed on LitHub’s Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast.

Jules Gill-Peterson, author of A Short History of Trans Misogyny (Verson), talks to NPR’s Code Switch.

Carvell Wallace, author of Another Word for Love: A Memoir (MCD), speaks with NPR’s It’s Been a Minute.

The pilot for Planterior with Hilton Carter will stream on Max and Dicovery+ starting tomorrow. Carter is the author of books including The Propagation Handbook: A Guide to Propagating Houseplants (Ryland Peters & Small).

Chris Whitaker’s novel All the Colors of the Dark (Crown) will be turned into a series, Deadline reports.

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

Tomorrow, CBS Mornings will visit with Marisa Renee Lee, author of Grief Is Love: Living with Loss (Legacy Lit), and the Jennifer Hudson Show will host Nick DiGiovanni, author of Knife Drop: Creative Recipes Anyone Can Cook (DK).

Want to get the latest book news delivered to your inbox each day? Sign up for our daily Book Pulse newsletter.